Canadian Board Game Lets Players Run Marijuana Farm

[rainbow4321]

http://www.baytownsun.com/wire.lasso?report=/dynamic/stories/M/MARIJUANA_GAME?SITE=TXBAY&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


VANCOUVER, B.C. (AP) -- The hot new Christmas gift in Canada this year is a board game that lets players run their own "B.C. Bud" marijuana farm. Creators of "The Grow-Op Game" say the $39.95 "educational board game" highlights the perils of the marijuana business and cautions would-be growers.

Solomon said the Monopoly-style game is the brainchild of a young, 20-something reformed pot grower, known only as the "Rabbit," to conceal his identity. Solomon said Rabbit came up with the idea for the game while serving time in jail.


Players roll the dice, move around the board, renting properties, buying lights and equipment, planting and harvesting crops. Moving in an opposite direction on the cylinder shaped board is the "GrowBuster." He lands on the unsuspecting player's property, rips out the plants and sends the player directly to jail.

Cpl. Scott Rintoul, spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Drug Awareness Squad, expressed concern that the game does not illustrate the impact the drug trade can having on the victims of organized crime. "It's not a game," he said

[Swamp Rat]

1. But it IS a game dumbass!

Scott Rintoul must have a learning disability.

I hope Solomon said Rabbit get very rich and send Rintoul a postcard from a tropical island paradise.

[sweetheart]

2. obviously he does

Anyone who is trying to raise awareness of drugs, who is that stupid
deserves to be stuck in a dead end job saying stupid things.

As well, may Solomon and Rabbit have a great future, smoking a fat doobie
in a tropical paradaise. :-)

[lazarus]

3. So?

I've been playing "Dealer McDope's Dealing Game" for years and years.

It's like Monopoly, only with drugs. Kickass game.