I recently got my hands on a perfect copy of the 1970’s classic stoner game, Stoner City. The circular track has a monopoly feel and play, allowing stoners to purchase properties. It has a variety of squares where players must pay the pot, and getting out of jail was never so easy. The smokin’ tokens are a variety of smoking devices and the pot leaf dice make this canna-monopoly game a hazy fun time. The game’s money shows the words “In Pot We Trust” showing Dead Presidents of the United States. The game allows you to grow weed, so you need weed tokens, and there is a ton of tiny pot leaves to represent your grow. Lastly there are “Karma” cards, these both give and take, somehow balancing the karma at the table.
I’m sure that Monopoly wouldn’t allow anyone to produce a game like this anymore, its just looks like Monopoly in so many ways and it plays like a simple version, there is no hiding it. Stoner City is a rare find and should be treasured and protected, there are a limited number out there and once those copies are gone, there will be no more produced. If you can’t get you hands on “Stoner City” I have a few games that could be a good substitute and play, in some ways, better than this vintage classic. Here are a few:
Pass The Grass is an interactive board game that borrows elements ranging from the innocent world of Milton Bradley to the psychedelic vibe of the Grateful Dead. Rolling both dice and joints, players make their way around the board in a quest for the perfect buzz while completing hilarious challenges and satisfying their lust for “munchies.” Pass the Grass can be played with 2 or more players but they must be 21 or over. Take turns drawing cards (and puffs) and complete challenges to win. Includes: 1 game board, 2 dice, 6 game "tokens," 2 decks of cards, and a rule book.
Game play: Everybody puts $1 in the jackpot. There are two sets of cards, you roll dice and there are places on the board that tell you to do different things. You take a card, and each card will tell you to do something different. There are credit and pass cards. A credit card means you do what the card says, which could be anything from taking a hit off a joint, to eating some munchies, to telling an embarrassing story. If you take a pass card, you pass it to anybody and then they have to do it. If they choose not to, they’re out. If you land on the jackpot, you get all the money and everyone replenishes it with $1 each, but it can be more if players want. Players who choose not to ante up are out. Last player still playing wins the pot. (Everyone else wins a nice buzz.) For a shorter game, play ends when someone lands on the jackpot.
Lords of Cannabis is a “The Strategic Game of Reaping, Corruption, and Conquest!” Reap the rewards of expanding throughout the vast pot fields of cannabis from building on rich resource plots and shrewd trading. Be the first player with ten points to win. Keep in mind- one strategy might work once, but in the next game...everything will change! Game Includes: One 17” x 17” game board, 100 Stash Cards, 38 Crop Cards, 2 Dice, 1 Sheriff Badge, 6 Reference and 2 Reward Cards, 24 Numbered Chips, 6 Building Tiles and 15 Tunnels per color. Fans of “Settlers of Catan” will quickly see the similarities, so? The game is really fun.
