A 50-lbs pot gamble each game
‘Reefer City’: a new double-dealin’ game for intelligent heads
By JIM GERSBACH
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Busted for possession. Right
in my own living room. I couldn’t
believe it.
All evening I'd been carefully
sneaking around garbage
strewn back alleys making
lucrative drug deals. So being
attacked while sipping a Crag
mont orange soda by a mar
ijuana sniffing narc German
shepherd left me shitfaced
Cursing my bad luck, I forked
over a $2,000 fine and moved
back two spaces.
My record stayed clean, how
ever, because my bust was just
part of playing “Reefer City,” a
new dope-trading game
produced by college student
Cam Marcus.
Marcus came up with "Reefer
City” in 1978 while a freshman
at the University of Vermont. It's
a game, he says, that's de
signed for intelligent heads.
While I’m not sure I meet
either of those qualifications,
with friends Steve and Roberta I
did get into the game's high
spirited approach to dope
dealing
Huddled over bowls of pop
corn in the dim light of my
apartment, we read through the
extensive rules list before
spreading the game out on my
rickety coffee table.
Next to the family’s old Mon
opoly set, the "Reefer City"
board is a graphic wonderland
of stern cops and stpned hip
pies. Play also is different. No
one goes to jail in "Reefer City;’’
they get busted.
In place of Community Chest
cards, there are connection
cards, tickets to the nearest
pusher.
With a connection card in
hand, players move around the
board until reaching their
pusher at one of the ramshackle
tenements like Homegrown
Heaven. Once inside, they can
Newborn quints improve
PORTLAND (AP) - The
medical condition of newborn
quintuplets improved Sunday,
doctors said, though all
remained in critical condition
and one boy still was con
sidered in grave condition.
Drs. John Yount and Kenneth
Burry said at a news conference
that artificial breathing appara
tus still was being used for all
five at University Hospital. They
were born at the hospital 12
weeks prematurely last Thurs
day to a 28-year-old Portland
woman.
The doctors said each quin
tuplet still is considered to have
a 50 percent chance of living.
The infants' given names
were issued for the first time. In
order of birth, they are Trisha
Jean, Cheryl Ellen, Kenneth Ja
son, Allan Michael and Brian
Quentin. Quentin means “fifth
born.''
Before the quintuplets were
named Saturday, they were
called "A,” “B,” “C,” “6,” and
“E.”
The hospital, at the parents'
request, did not publicize their
names or other personal details.
The doctors said Trisha and
Brian have shown the most im
provement. Allen is considered
in grave condition with lung
problems and some hemhor
raging that is common in
premature babies.
Cheryl and Kenneth have
ruptured lungs. Each has a tube
draining fluid from the ruptured
lung while the infant breathes
with the other lung.
The babies, delivered by Ce
sarean section, all weigh less
than two pounds and are about
14 inches long. Doctors said the
mother was taking the fertility
drug Pergonal and knew it in
creases the chance of multiple
births.
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buy or sell drugs, depending on
the street price as determined
by a market level indicator.
Because the indicator rapidly
changes how much grass costs,
we found ourselves continually
maneuvering to make our deals
at just the right time.
As we listened to neo-drug
music courtesy of AM radio, we
scrambled for connection cards
and dodged police dogs and
paraquat-induced crop failures.
“You sure wouldn’t want to
play this while stoned," Steve
said, accidentally dropping a
die in the popcorn
“Maybe if you played it 10
times you could play it stoned,”
chimed in Roberta
Stoned or straight, Roberta
did well at first, securing several
free pounds of homegrown and
making great connections. As
her stash grew, she got so ab
sorbed in strategy Steve had to
tell her when it was her turn.
“I thought you were playing
with your mushrooms’’ she
answered absentmindedly.
But then her luck changed
and suddenly the narc squad
was dragging her off to the
hoosgow, booking her for pos
session.
“My mother would be real
upset," she said
While she languished behind
bars, I calmly picked up pounds
and pounds of Lebanese
Blonde, Acapulco Gold and
Columbian. I scored big at Hip
pie Haven where I picked up 20
pounds of Panama Red for
$8,000. On my next turn, with
the street price slightly higher, I
sold the whole stash for $9,600,
enough to put me over the
$20,000 winning mark.
Over 50 pounds of dope had
passed through my hands in just
the one game, something of an
irony since I wouldn't know
what a roach clip was even if I
saw a cockroach wearing one.
But the allure of cannabis
doesn’t seem to be "Reefer Ci
ty’s” main appeal to those who
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play it. As Steve, taking a swig
from his cream soda, summed it
up, "I just want to make a lot of
money, whether it's from buying
Baltic Avenue or dope."
If that’s how you feel, send
$14 95 plus $2 postage and
handling to Game Makers, Inc.
at P.O. Box 117, Burlington, Vt.
05402. And soon you’ll be off
the Boardwalk and treading and
trading on the streets of “Reefer
City.”
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