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Vancouver - A Vancouver-based team has created one of the West Coast's most coveted holiday gifts this season: The Grow-Op Game, a board game that gives players a taste of running a marijuana grow-operation in B.C.
The two creators call Grow-Op an educational board game that highlights the risks of the pot business.
"You get ratted on by neighbours, hydro cuts you off, you get floods, there are tons of stuff that is negative about it," game creator Ivan Solomon told the Canadian Press Saturday.
"People would think that with grow-ops everyone would like to have one in their basement, that it's easy money. It's far from being easy."
The Monopoly-style game is the brainchild of a twenty-something former pot grower who goes by the name "The Rabbit."
According to the game's website, The Rabbit devised the game while serving a prison term, envisioning Grow-Op as a way to show would-be grow operators "all the excitement, danger, rewards and failures of 'Growing B.C. Bud' without the real risks associated with the industry."
During his time as an "entrepreneur," Rabbit experienced everything from flooding, fires and fungus to bugs, ceiling collapses and "that inevitable knock on the door from the authorities."
Grow-Op players must move around the board renting properties, buying equipment and plants, and growing and then harvesting marijuana. An entity known as the "GrowBuster" also moves around the board and, if it lands on a player's property, rips out the grow operation and sends the player to jail.
Though the game only came together about a month ago, word about Grow-Op has already spread, causing a big stir in places like Vancouver's Amsterdam Café, which has reportedly received countless calls from people looking for the game.
Marketed online by the Board Games Corp., The Grow-Op Game retails for $29.95 US.
https://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2004/12/20/Arts/growopgame041220.html
The two creators call Grow-Op an educational board game that highlights the risks of the pot business.
"You get ratted on by neighbours, hydro cuts you off, you get floods, there are tons of stuff that is negative about it," game creator Ivan Solomon told the Canadian Press Saturday.
"People would think that with grow-ops everyone would like to have one in their basement, that it's easy money. It's far from being easy."
The Monopoly-style game is the brainchild of a twenty-something former pot grower who goes by the name "The Rabbit."
According to the game's website, The Rabbit devised the game while serving a prison term, envisioning Grow-Op as a way to show would-be grow operators "all the excitement, danger, rewards and failures of 'Growing B.C. Bud' without the real risks associated with the industry."
During his time as an "entrepreneur," Rabbit experienced everything from flooding, fires and fungus to bugs, ceiling collapses and "that inevitable knock on the door from the authorities."
Grow-Op players must move around the board renting properties, buying equipment and plants, and growing and then harvesting marijuana. An entity known as the "GrowBuster" also moves around the board and, if it lands on a player's property, rips out the grow operation and sends the player to jail.
Though the game only came together about a month ago, word about Grow-Op has already spread, causing a big stir in places like Vancouver's Amsterdam Café, which has reportedly received countless calls from people looking for the game.
Marketed online by the Board Games Corp., The Grow-Op Game retails for $29.95 US.
https://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2004/12/20/Arts/growopgame041220.html
