GROW OP GAME A BUST AT TOY FAIR

Where there's toke, there's ire. The heat is on a onetime B.C. pot grower
over a board game critics say promotes the illegal marijuana industry.

Grow Op, a game manufactured by Vancouver's Bored Games Corp., has been
banned from the New York Toy Fair.

Only days before the Sunday launch of the fair, the Toy Industry
Association said it banned Grow Op because it goes against the values the
TIA is trying to portray and their mandate to support the positive
development of children.

The game was created by a B.C. grower, known only as Rabbit, who realized
the way to easy money in the $7-billion-a-year marijuana industry is often
illusive and fraught with challenges.

Some of the nasty circumstances he faced and that the board game now puts
players through include floods, fires, fungus, bugs, biker gangs, angry
neighbours, loans from criminal organizations at unforgiving rates and the
imminent police knock on the door.

Calgary Ald. Diane Colley-Urquhart was "shocked" to hear such a game was
being sold U.S. and Canada-wide.