Forget FarmVille & FarmTown, Now You Can Sell Weed on Facebook

Yes, tending to virtual crops and cows is fun, but where’s the danger? Where’s the adrenaline? Where’s the risk? Well, now you can add some spice to your social gaming garden with a new Facebook game based on Showtime show Weeds.

Weeds Social Club launched Monday in closed beta — although the first 50 people to click here gain access — from Ecko|Code. The game will launch fully in August.

The game tasks a player with raising enough money — via selling pot — to save his or her house, a la the Botwin family from the popular show. The game will not show you how to grow pot — which we imagine would boot it off of Facebook — but it will feature a time clock tracking growing and selling duties and will bestow upon players all the trials and tribulations that the show’s main character, Nancy Botwin, faces (run-ins with the police, organized crime, taxes, etc.). You can interact with all other players around the world or limit gameplay to Facebook friends.

This isn’t the first social game to based on a TV show to come to Facebook: Gossip Girl launched a game in January, and Starz launched its new series, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, with a social game as well.

What do you think of the offering from Weeds?