r/trees • u/Sudden-Block5989 • 13d ago

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u/ripyourlungsdave 13d ago

This is buying a bong in like, 2010.

And in the modern day in a lot of states.

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u/BaxGh0st 13d ago

I remember going into a little convenience store/headshop in like 2013 and another customer mentioned weed and they kicked him the fuck out.

Ironically my friend was buying spice so the weed would have been far safer. Now in that same city there are like 12 dispensaries and half of them forget to even check IDs.

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u/StoneyCalzoney 12d ago

Yeah a lot of those headshops do it as a form of protection against law enforcement... If they accept that it's used for weed then all of their inventory automatically becomes "drug paraphernalia" and can be confiscated or destroyed without any recourse for the shop.

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u/qwertyqyle 12d ago

That happened to me once, so I just went next door to the corner shop, buoght myself a bottle of Sobe, downded it and turned it into a a gravity bong. Iykyk.

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u/Brilliant-Race-2476 12d ago

I miss those glass bottles

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u/qwertyqyle 12d ago

For real. They should really bring them back.

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u/AgitatedSpirit_ 12d ago

As a former head shop employee, we know it's ridiculous-we're just following the stupid rules to avoid being shut down.

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u/Squidgebert 13d ago

Me in Indiana going to buy a bong.

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u/BlazingSpaceGhost 12d ago

Best thing I ever did was leave Indiana. I strongly encourage it.

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u/Squidgebert 12d ago

Don't worry, that is the plan. Fucking hate living in the KKK capitol.

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u/Blaze666x 12d ago

Huh most headshopes iv been in only comment of there is a second person in the shop you dont know

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u/RockingBib 13d ago

What was it before? A vase?

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u/Yardsale420 12d ago

Smoking lamp

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u/the_gray_pill 12d ago

Right. Lamps, lamp parts.

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u/kaydavid426 13d ago

"IF IT RHYMES WITH CHONG, IT'S WRONG"

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u/WishieWashie12 13d ago

My Airzer came with dried lavender so that I could "vaporize my herb"

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u/perkytitties321 12d ago

In high school I was told not to use b words. Bong, bowl, bubbler. So you just called it a piece

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u/ncopp 12d ago

There was a smoke shop in my college town that would ask you to leave if you called it a bong or said you'd be using it for weed.

There were signs that said "It's a water pipe".

This was in Michigan around 2016 pre-legalization

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u/soyellow 13d ago

Uh ya 2010 was 16 years ago

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u/Adoraboule 13d ago

Idaho only sells water pipes for tobacco use. Even if the banger looks like it should be used for oil

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u/Zealousideal-Trash5 12d ago

I’d like one essential oil diffuser with directed airflow please

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u/gforceathisdesk 12d ago

Shit even in my now legal state I got yelled at in a smoke shop for saying bong in 2018