Police: Smoke Shops Sold Meth Pipes

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[chance33_98]

Police: Smoke Shops Sold Meth Pipes
Four Shops Have Received Citations

POSTED: 6:19 p.m. PDT June 27, 2002 UPDATED: 6:32 p.m. PDT June 27, 2002

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Four local cigarette and cigar shops are in hot water for allegedly displaying meth pipes, KERO 23 News reported.

Two cigarette outlet stores on Columbus and Mount Vernon streets, and both Havana House stores on Stockdale Highway violated health and safety codes by having paraphernalia used for a controlled substance, according to police.

Police said it is illegal to sell, possess or display pipes used for methamphetamine, crack, or heroin, but legal to sell pipes that can be used to smoke marijuana.

The marijuana pipes can also be used to smoke tobacco.

The owners and managers of the shops have been cited, KERO reported.

[Wolfie]

What the heck's a "meth pipe"?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Police said it is illegal to sell, possess or display pipes used for methamphetamine, crack, or heroin, but legal to sell pipes that can be used to smoke marijuana.

I didn't know there was a difference. Just goes to show what I know...

[Stone Mountain]

What a crock! A glass pipe is a glass pipe. People can use it to smoke tobacco, crystal meth, or carpet fibers. There's no such thing as a "meth-only" pipe.

[chance33_98]

What the heck's a "meth pipe"?

Some illegal thing...Hell I don't know, I report, you decide ;)

[shempy]

Some of the meth pipes I have seen would most definitely NOT work for smoking pot. They are basically a glass stem with a bulb on the end. The glass bulb has a hole in the top of it. If you tried smoking weed with these, you'd end up with a mouth full of ash and weed.

[wienerdog.com]

A glass stem with a bulb at the end? That sounds scary. Could someone please protect me from it? Thanks in advance.

[shempy]

[Drammach]

What the heck's a "meth pipe"?

It's usually a pipe made of glass or Pyrex.
I have seen "clay" or porcelain pipes used as well.

Often in the basic pipe shape, these items are used for meth, crack, heroin, opium, hash, and hash "oil".
They are usually quite small in size, (2" or less) and easily concealable.

Additionally, there are glass "pipettes", that are simple glass tubes with a "lip" on the end, or a hole on the side of the tube with a "lip" for the substance.

All of these types of smoking gear are highly injurious to lung tissue, as the user inhales the heated substance directly into the lungs.
It's like sticking a glass straw directly into a flame and inhaling.
Most Glass Blowers will tell You this is "extremely stupid", the incorporation of drugs notwithstanding.

Such pipes rarely have screens, or filters, making them even more dangerous to lung tissue.
This is NOT a "recommended activity".

[shempy]

Pretty scary, huh? The meth-heads also smoke using tinfoil. Would you believe that my local grocery store actually supports these freaks by selling tin foil?

[Maceman]

Would you believe that my local grocery store actually supports these freaks by selling tin foil?

Yeah But they don't sell it for pipes. They sell it for hats.

[newcats]

And I'll bet they had black light posters on the wall and sold inscense by the stick too!

[Huck]

That's definitely no good for smoking pot, unless you cover that top hole with a screen or a piece of foil with holes in it.

[Huck]

And big candles shaped like skulls. And plaster incence burners shaped like dragons. And chinese throwing stars.

[EBUCK]

Some of them use partially disassembled light bulbs too. Will someone please tell our leaders that lightbulbs are evil and should be kept from my uncontrolable and easily influenced hands??

EBUCK

[Wolfie]

Viva Glass Vegas

(Man, $200 for a pipe?)

[shempy]

big candles shaped like skulls. And plaster incence burners shaped like dragons. And chinese throwing stars.

I can almost here the refrain of Julie Andrews now - These are a few of my favorite things...

[DETAILER]

And also the old hollow telescopic type radio antennae. Some
freak in our old neighborhood drove down the road and his buddy leaned out the window and they snapped off every antennae they could reach. Most of them were solid ,useless for their pipes, but they snapped them off anyway.

[wienerdog.com]

These heathens are using good old American Co-Cola cans for this same purpose even as we speak! Why, did you know that these Libertarian bastards have even been known to snap the antennas off of American cars to make crack pipes? We need to lock them up, I tell you -- the thought that someone, somewhere is desecrating such icons of Americana (Co-Cola cans and Ford Fairlanes) while putting money in terrorist coffers as they do makes me very uneasy, and convinces me more than ever that THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW.

[Huck]

Back in the day, I would say:

Just give me an empty beer can and a pushpin and I'll be fine. A little harsh, maybe, but it works. Or else let me run down to Home Depot, pick up a few small threaded pipes, some connectors, and a packet of faucet screens, and I'll make a pipe with a nice slow draw. Or, if I am feeling really creative, let me take an empty jar, some pipe, some rubber tubing, and I'll make you a two way hookah. But hey, I have always been stingy.

But I don't do that stuff anymore.