Crack stem

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A crack stem is a glass tube that is used to smoke crack cocaine also known as freebase cocaine.

The glass tube stem in New York city is sold in many "bodegas" or "corner stores". It is illegal to sell a stem with a metal filter in these stores but many sell them anyway. However a loophole in the law allows these stores to sell glass pens which when you remove the ink and the top is a glass tube (stem), or a "rosebud" which is a glass tube (stem) with a plastic flower inside the tube. Although there is really one reason why they are sold, to smoke crack out of them, there is no law being broken by selling a stem in this way. If you are caught by the police with a glass tube that has no metal filter and no "crack cocaine" residue in the stem you cannot be arrested or fined for having illegal drug paraphernalia on your person.