Amazon Picks Up Local-Made Board Game for Stoners, Pass the Grass

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In the 1970s, Paul Greenwald of Huntingdon Valley developed a board game for folks to play at home when they’re toking with friends. It wasn’t until this year, though, that the 64-year-old retired dentist began to market it. Amazon loved the idea, and Pass the Grass is now available on the e-shopping site for $24.95. You can also nab it via an app on Android devices for $1.99. Here’s how the game works, as told by Greenwald to the Daily News:

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.

So far Greenwald has sold 500 games and foresees kickstarting a line of complementary T-shirts, coffee mugs and other trinkets. He told the Daily News that he used $65,000 startup money to get it going, and Amazon takes a $7.50 cut from every sale. Sounds like a prime candidate for Shark Tank, huh?