Kotaku: Marijuana

Chrono Trigger's Hidden Playa Character Has an Important Message About Drug Use

Mike Fahey — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:15:00 EST

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When Lavos is in the timestream, drop him like it's hot. I believe that's what Snoop Dogg would say if he were alive today. We'll check back with him tomorrow to see if anything's changed. More »

If Anyone Needs Me I'll Be Growing and Selling Pot on Facebook

Mike Fahey — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:20:00 EDT

While there are several Facebook games that involve growing and distributing marijuana, only one is the official game of the Showtime original series Weeds. It's okay to grow and sell pot when Mary Louise Parker is involved! More »

How To Turn a PlayStation 3 Theft Into a Drug Bust

Mike Fahey — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:30:00 EDT

17-year-old Bobby Lee Huffman of Hickory, North Carolina, called the police to his home on Monday after he discovered his PlayStation 3, controllers, and games had apparently been stolen. Then Bobby Lee did something incredibly stupid. More »

Video Games Improve Marijuana Performance 43%

Joshua Rivera — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:20:00 EDT

There aren't many things that marijuana users say weed can't make better. Take this guy I used to know. His name was Mike. Every once in a while we'd hang out with a few other guys and play ridiculous amounts of Halo 2. Occasionally Mike would light up during our fragfests. More »

Farm, Chill, Whatever—It's All Cool With Facebook Game Pot Farm

Drew Cohen — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:30:00 EDT

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Virtual agriculture has recently become a bit more spliffy. More »

This Xbox 360 Controller Mod Concept Has Cash Written All Over It

Mike Fahey — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:40:00 EST

Shades of the Nintendo 64 pipe, this Xbox controller pipe loses points for being nothing more than a nut placed over the guide button, but gains points for the non-smoker's uncanny resemblance to a young George W. Found on Flickr. More »

Gamer With Stolen Credit Card Leads Cops To Parents' Pot

Owen Good — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:30:00 EDT

A kid in suburban Chicago boosted a credit card and bought some games and virtual currency online. When the cops showed up to ask some questions, they found his folks, uh, "Victory Garden." More »

The Case of the Indie Devs and the Medical Marijuana Mixup

Owen Good — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:00:00 EST

IllFonic, the Denver-based developer of Ghetto Golf, happens to have a medical marijuana dispensary for a next-door neighbor. Last night its alarm went off, the fuzz showed up at the wrong address, and three devs were cuffed at gunpoint. More »

Rare Sighting: Pro-Marijuana Reference In A Video Game

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:00:37 EDT

As I played the upcoming Grand Theft Auto-like iPhone game Gangstar: West Coast Hustle earlier this week, I tuned the radio to 42.0 and got a surprise. More »

I Wanted to Play Halo 3, But Then I Got High

Owen Good — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:00:00 EDT

ForgePorn I can sort of understand because, hell, people have been drawing dicks on everything since the time of cave paintings. But marijuana? Don't kids draw on desks anymore? More »

Atari 2600 Devs Talk About Pot Smoking, Whips and Flying Frogs

Brian Crecente — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:30:00 EST

Howard Scott Warshaw, creator of Yars' Revenge, has been tracking down the former game developers for the original Atari, the 70s company that gave us all of those great (and not so great) 2600 games. The resulting video interviews, Once Upon Atari, give us a glimpse into the chaotic, bizarre and drug-filled world of game development in the decade of sex, drugs and game development. More »

Smoking Pot Gets Your Guitar Hero eBayed

Mark Wilson — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:40:13 EST

Some of you may have already heard about the Canadian teen who was caught smoking pot. His dad, upset over his son doing drugs, put the copy of Guitar Hero III for Wii—that was being saved as a Christmas present for the boy—on eBay. The auction mentioned:

While I doubt this will keep him from ever smoking pot again, I think it will make him think twice before doing illegal drugs on my property.

The game went for a whopping $9,100,01...which will inevitably lead to loads of problematic-youth-spawned gaming paraphernalia flooding the eBay markets. Lesson learned! More »