“You can get more into it. You can forget you’re sitting on the couch.” The Stranger
Like peanut butter and jelly, whiskey and beer, or Ghostface and Raekwon, weed and video games are a timeless pairing. While people have been getting stoned far longer than they’ve been playing video games—researchers recently discovered charred remnants of cannabis dating back to the Neolithic era—it’s safe to say that potheads were probably early adopters of Pong. Few things seem to jibe quite so well as interactive screen time and cannabis, but as a non-gamer (too busy wheelie boarding), I’ve long been curious why stoners are so obsessed with gaming.
So I asked a stoner who also builds and plays video games for a living…