Talk:Head shop
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I'm no expert, but "ingestion" is entirely the wrong word to use.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.233.132.57 (talk • contribs) 05:06, May 4, 2005 (UTC)
Head shop should definitely not be merged with the article on Smart Shop. Smart shops are stores(primarily in the Netherlands) that sell drugs whereas head shops sell drug paraphernalia under a legal guise.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.232.102.33 (talk • contribs) 02:50, July 7, 2006 (UTC)
The name "Head Shop" came from the stores owned by Jeffrey Glick in Greenwich Village in the mid 1960s
[edit] Origin of "headshop"
I'm curious as to where the name "head shop" came from? i understand what it is and how it started, but where did the name orginate from?
- According to my dubious source(rotten.com library), the term head shop originates from the hippie culture.
The term "head shop" communicates the idea of a store selling things which are "good for one's head" http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/bongs/
[edit] Limited geographic scope
The legality section of this article talks only about the situation in the United States. What about other countries? Do you have to call a bong in Germany a Wasserrohr? We will never know unless someone adds to it. --Arm 04:28, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
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- You can use the {{Globalise/USA}} template (see above) before the text if you are concerned with that. I think the section is questionable anyway. The laws, most likely, prohibit the transfer and marketing of products with the knowledge that they will be used to violate the law (to put it most generally). How the word bong being used instead of water pipe conveys knowledge of illegal use escapes me. I seriously doubt that bong is defined by statute anywhere as a drug related object, per se . (Maybe Singapore, everything's illegal there).
- I suspect this is just pothead paranoia. I don't think even the Tommy Chong case came down to just the use of the word bong. How could it? Chong's image alone would have bolstered any argument that the bongs were intended to further "criminal" activity. BTW, I don't blame the U.S. shop owners for being paranoid, they are on the margins of the law, and anything might tip the balance into "criminality". That said, though, the material needs to meet WP:NOR, WP:V, WP:NPOV, and it currently does not.
- There is a difference between the "Legality" of head shops and the sound decisions of shop owners to maintain a low profile in response to existing laws. That is, no one can be criminally charged (so far as I know) for asking a merchant if he carries bongs (best not to ask about clones, though). Those are private decisions, which ironically make it more likely that references to bongs will be presumed to be references to "criminal" activity.
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[edit] "Intended for herbal highs"?
"Head shops often don't consider their products to be illegal drug paraphernalia because they are intended for use with herbal highs and other legal substances..." Oh come on. Perhaps they may publically state this, but I haven't seen anyone put tobacco in a bong lately. Mr. Vernon 06:22, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
