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You can smoke weed in GTA V…dude

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Proving that we can all just get a bong, it looks like GTA V is going to be pushing the envelope once again when it depicts what you can do in that virtual world. You’ll be able to light up a joint in the game when it arrives in September. And when I get pulled over by the cops, I’ll tell them that I play GTA V for medicinal purposes only.

According to an ESRB listing picked up by the Mary-Jane senses of Kotaku, GTA V will be getting a Mature rating, and blazing a fat joint is just one of the reasons why. Here’s the full list of the actions you’ll be capable of. Not so bad spoiler warning:

Rating Summary: In this open-world action game, players assume the role of three criminals whose storylines intersect within the fictional city of Los Santos. Players can switch between each character to follow his storyline, completing missions which often include criminal activities (e.g., stealing cars, executing heists, assassinating targets). Players use pistols, machine guns, sniper rifles, and explosives to kill various enemies (e.g., rival gang members); players also have the ability to shoot non-adversary civilians, though this may negatively affect players’ progress as a penalty system triggers a broad police search. Blood-splatter effects occur frequently, and the game contains rare depictions of dismemberment. In one sequence, players are directed to use various instruments and means to extract information from a character; the sequence is intense and prolonged, and it involves some player interaction (i.e., responding to on-screen prompts).

The game includes depictions of sexual material/activity: implied fellatio and masturbation; various sex acts that the player’s character procures from a prostitute—while no nudity is depicted in these sequences, various sexual moaning sounds can be heard. Nudity is present, however, primarily in two settings: a topless lap dance in a strip club and a location that includes male cult members with exposed genitalia in a non-sexual context.

Within the game, TV programs and radio ads contain instances of mature humor: myriad sex jokes; depictions of raw sewage and feces on a worker’s body; a brief instance of necrophilia (no nudity is depicted).

Some sequences within the larger game allow players to use narcotics (e.g., smoking from a bong, lighting a marijuana joint); cocaine use is also depicted. Players’ character can, at various times, consume alcohol and drive while under the influence. The words “f**k,” “c*nt,” and “n**ger” can be heard in the dialogue.

Looks like that Johnson-swinging tech from the GTA IV era is on the way back for GTA V. Also interesting is how cocaine, the former secret ingredient in Coca-Cola, is being depicted. Further details are still needed on how that Colombian white gold will be implemented in the game, but I’m guessing that GTA V has one hell of a speed run in store for gamers.

Last Updated: August 21, 2013

49 Comments

  1. Darryn! Have you been hitting the bong too?! ‘Proving that we can all just a bong, it looks like GTA V is going to be pushing the envelope omc’

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    • Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

      August 21, 2013 at 12:41

      Apparently, that’s why PE is so slow. Everyone is on da kronik and listening to Bob Marley….

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      • RinceThisandbacktoreality

        August 21, 2013 at 12:45

        BWAHAHAHAHA!

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      • ElNicko

        August 21, 2013 at 15:37

        you say that like its a bad thing Jim

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      • Thats_how_I_Troll

        August 22, 2013 at 15:37

        Stop ripping on PE, Like the old afrikaans saying goes, Stadig maar seker wen altyd die beker!

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    • Major Commodore 64 Darryn B

      August 21, 2013 at 12:43

      Doh! Should make more sense now. I hope.

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      • Unavengedavo

        August 21, 2013 at 12:58

        Yes, because “omce” makes perfect sense…

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        • Major Commodore 64 Darryn B

          August 21, 2013 at 13:18

          You guys are mean. First you bogart my medicine, then you mock my spelling.

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          • TiMsTeR1033

            August 21, 2013 at 13:47

            dont worry my spelling sucks too

          • Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

            August 21, 2013 at 13:57

            Aww we still love you man, we’re just jealous of super-chilled PE. 🙁

          • Sageville

            August 21, 2013 at 16:20

            Don’t let them get to you Darryn, when I’m stoned your articles all make perfect sense!

      • Admiral Chief Raider of Tombs

        August 21, 2013 at 13:02

        Darryl, bad corner for you!

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  2. Jonah Cash

    August 21, 2013 at 12:38

    Hahaha…. Not in the one released in Australia!!!

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  3. Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

    August 21, 2013 at 12:40

    Now throw in some Breaking Bad Meth cooking and we have ourselves a winner!

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  4. Unavengedavo

    August 21, 2013 at 12:42

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  5. Vampyre Squirrel

    August 21, 2013 at 12:43

    hahaha epic… I wonder if it affects game play.

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    • Hammersteyn

      August 21, 2013 at 12:44

      Drinking did in GTA 4.

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      • Vampyre Squirrel

        August 21, 2013 at 13:26

        Drinking still will in GTAV… smoking weed had better affect it too 😛

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        • TiMsTeR1033

          August 21, 2013 at 13:49

          good lord in gta 4 drinking made you a utter diaster but was fun driving like that wish lasted longer….

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          • Vampyre Squirrel

            August 21, 2013 at 14:04

            Yeah, but walking was a pain in the ass and head… the amount of times I ate curb or car wasn’t even funny. Good thing Nico is Russian or he’d never get back up.

          • TiMsTeR1033

            August 21, 2013 at 14:07

            I loved eating the curb found it rather liberating and said “cmon nico you do it for mother russia!” in Russian accent

    • Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

      August 21, 2013 at 12:44

      Maybe it makes your character chuckle more or… strangely peckish after a night’s worth of burglaries?

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      • Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

        August 21, 2013 at 12:48

        Or maybe it cures your character’s glaucoma?

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      • Vampyre Squirrel

        August 21, 2013 at 13:26

        Lol! that would be pretty awesome… munchie mode enabled!

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      • Vampyre Squirrel

        August 21, 2013 at 13:34

        Or your character randomly stops to look at something saying “Duuuuuude, check it oooout!!”

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      • Thats_how_I_Troll

        August 22, 2013 at 11:19

        Or half way through a mission you sommer start doing another mission…. Dialogues get interrupted with the guys saying, “what did we talk about?” spend 5 minutes thinking about it, start laughing because you forgot something so simple, then start talking about something not even remotely related….

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    • Mark Treloar

      August 22, 2013 at 11:59

      it did in San Andreas

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  6. DaxterZA

    August 21, 2013 at 12:44

    This is not good….previously when games had drug usage in them FPB shat their pants about it and banned the games in SA…. for example State of Decay (Which was resolved at least).

    I really hate the FPB of SA….

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  7. Hammersteyn

    August 21, 2013 at 12:45

    That reminds me….. I’m running low again.

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    • RinceThisandbacktoreality

      August 21, 2013 at 12:46

      You and me both, to the pole Hammertime?

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      • Hammersteyn

        August 21, 2013 at 12:47

        Do what Dewald Potgieter does. Kantlyn toe.

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  8. Alien Emperor Trevor

    August 21, 2013 at 13:01

    But how am I supposed to get stoned with it not being released on PC yet? Use real weed?

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    • Sageville

      August 21, 2013 at 16:17

      Works for me…

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  9. Admiral Chief Raider of Tombs

    August 21, 2013 at 13:03

    [Re-enactment of Silent Bob]

    ……………………………………………………………………………………………..

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    • Hammersteyn

      August 21, 2013 at 13:36

      [Re-enactment of Jay]
      Pussy!

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      • Marc O Polo

        August 21, 2013 at 18:19

        Snoochie Boochies!!!!!!!

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  10. Rahhcat

    August 21, 2013 at 13:29

    This will slow down the game

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    • TiMsTeR1033

      August 21, 2013 at 13:51

      thats the point..

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  11. Lardus-Respect the beard

    August 21, 2013 at 13:42

    HEADER WIN!

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  12. CaptainNemo42

    August 21, 2013 at 13:42

    0_0

    “male cult members with exposed genitalia”

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  13. Alien Emperor Trevor

    August 21, 2013 at 13:50

    “speed run” *groan*

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  14. TiMsTeR1033

    August 21, 2013 at 13:53

    how many stoners will be smoking it up and playing stoned….. back in the day played gta 4 stoned online heard so many bongs going *insert bubble noise* I can only imagine gta online.. lol

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    • Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)

      August 21, 2013 at 13:55

      Just imagine the philosophical implications… Stoner is stoned, playing a game while stoned, with a character that is stoned, doing things that are stoned-worthy…. Thus, has the man become the avatar? Or is it art?

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      • TiMsTeR1033

        August 21, 2013 at 14:03

        I dunno I is an ex pothead…

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      • Unavengedavo

        August 21, 2013 at 14:04

        It just felt like your comment needed this…

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  15. Khulani Ndlovu

    August 21, 2013 at 15:03

    That’s interesting, medicinal marijuana, how about some coke, 😉

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    • Unavengedavo

      August 21, 2013 at 15:41

      If you are referring to the soft drink Coca-Cola then…

      “Coca-Cola once contained an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass. In 1903, it was removed.”

      “In the United States, the Stepan Company is the only manufacturing plant authorized by the Federal Government to import and process the coca plant, which it obtains mainly from Peru and, to a lesser extent, Bolivia. Besides producing the coca flavoring agent for Coca-Cola, the Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it sells to Mallinckrodt, a St. Louis, Missouri, pharmaceutical manufacturer that is the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use.”

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  16. Sageville

    August 21, 2013 at 16:23

    LEGALIZE ALREADY!

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  17. Marc O Polo

    August 21, 2013 at 17:26

    so you can get stoned while playing GTA V stoned… not that i would do that *cough cough*

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