Learn How to be a Drug Dealer Via Facebook's 'Weeds Social Club' Game

By Dennis Romero Tue., Jun. 28 2011 at 7:04 AM

So you want to be a weed dealer? You could try to open a shop in L.A. (good luck, following the city's crackdown). And there's always the sidewalk on Alvarado Street in MacArthur Park (if you don't get shot by rivals first).

But maybe the most trouble-free way to become a homegrown slanger of fine cannabis is to practice doing it online. No LAPD raids. No gangsters shooting you. And no getting high on your own supply.

The geniuses at Showtime have come up with just such an avenue:

The Weeds Social Club, a virtual game on Facebook that lets you plant seeds, grow buds, harvest and wholesale to your favorite douche.

The release of the game, now in beta, coincides with the new summer of season of Weeds, the show about a pot-dealing mom, which debuted last night.

Showtime

According to BusinessWeek:

Users buy and plant different strains of marijuana--from downmarket "Schwag Weed" to the pricier and more (virtually) potent "Jamaican Ganja"--and then harvest the crop before it withers. Players then set prices above or below street value, determine how much customer risk they're willing to take, and wait for a hooded-sweatshirt-wearing dealer--really--to swing by and pick up the goods. Along the way, users barter with friends, outfit their pad with flat-screen TVs, bongs, and other digital accessories, and spend real money on "favors"--game points that let them buy nicer goods.

The DEA must be thrilled.

One commenter on the Weeds Social Club's Facebook page, Francisco Sagrero of Mexico, writes:

What the hell you guys think you're doing! There's people dying because of drugs in my country (MEX) and it is not because we have a violent president but for you because with "Weeds Social Club" you try to make look funny something who is not funny at all for all the families of each of the 40,000 who are death now because of the drugs!
Shame on you!

But, hey, this is great practice for the kid down the street who you know isn't going to college. And, heck, he was headed this way anyway, right?

[@dennisjromero/djromero@laweekly.com]

Tags:

dispensary, drug dealer, Facebook, Facebook games, marijuana, pot shop, Showtime, Weeds

We Recommend

Tomi White

The best game without risks. My face not stoned, the police not knocking on the door. My bird not crying. Just spend a time. This its sims and farm mix, nice strategy game. Gonna meet with Nancy?

Kanni Bassativa

You could work for a medical equipment company like Medtronic Diabetes who tell loyal long term Northridge employees that "they are only adding a location in San Antonio to add support" when all along they were lying and have laid off hundreds of lied to Northridge employees.

Stupid People

Or you could go to college, work at a pharmaceutical company and push much more dangerous drugs approved by the corrupt FDA and have the government keep any competition away by 1) keeping plants illegal 2) enforcing ridiculous patent laws that allow them to peddle these chemicals to our children, friends and parents without allowing for natural substitutes. A significant portion of school shootings are done by kids on some kind of un-natural medication. More and more people are being given a cocktail of prescription drugs with horrible side effects, but people are still too ignorant to realize the benefits of cannabis. President Obama sold and smoked weed. President Clinton smoked weed. The constitution is written on hemp. The federal and local governments choose to not enforce certain laws on the books and enforce laws not on the books, yet still find time to go after people who grow, smoke and eat a plant. WTF?