Talk:Head shop/Archives/2013

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Vandalism

You will notice a number of random links interspersed in the text. Perhaps someone who is already working on editing this page would like to double-check the article and remove these. (94.193.81.247 (talk) 14:11, 14 July 2010 (UTC))

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)

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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 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.88.4.183 (talk) 07:46, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

"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)

REPLY: If you took time to look into this a bit further you will notice that there are many legal substances which in order to be effective require the use of a 'Bong' or 'Pipe'. An example of one such substance is Salvia, a highly potent halucinagen which is most effective when smoked through a water bong, inhaled and held in for 20-30 seconds. Other examples of what customers who buy a bong might use include popular smoking blends such as 'Spice' or 'Zohai' which can both be found at the following address; \ 86.42.200.92 (talk) 03:59, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Do you find these products damaging or productive to society?

I'd like to know some of your views on this and have provided some links so as you can inform yourself on whats avaliable.

86.42.200.92 (talk) 03:50, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Merge content of grow shops article into this one

An article was written about grow shops in 2010 the content of which probably belongs in this head shop article. I have proposed it should be merged into head shop. Grow shops was written by a one-off editor. What do you think? — O'Dea (talk) 05:38, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

More on the shop on Fry Street in Denton Texas

(Corrections featured in parentheses) Ok I have to chime in on this one.....I don't know where you got your facts but some are right but most are wrong. The little shop at 113 Fry St. in Denton Texas is the oldest head shop in Texas and may very well be the oldest in the U.S (third oldest, it turns out, behind New York and San Francisco).. But when it opened in 1964 (established 1966, see picture of original store on TZH website under history where it shows "est 1966" over the door) it opened under the name "The Birmingham Balloon (Co)" And it was not painted like a Zebra at that time.It was painted white with only a sign on it (the hanging sign in the picture on TZH website under history also shows the word "headshop" and was taken by Sal Sessa in 1969. The motto for the store was "Things for the Head" and even appear in an advertisement in the 1969 Denton High School Yearbook, which is where the Head reference originates!) It changed hand(s) many times before it was painted with the familiar Zebra outside paint job. That paint job was painted in the mid 80's. The owner that (had it) painted it that way was Nana. She moved to Denton and leased the building and opened it as " Zebra Imports". I know this because I helped paint it. After she moved(,) it was leased to a man named Hairy (properly spelled Harry). He changed the name to "Fry St. Records (& Things) in 1990 but kept the zebra stripes. He opened a second record shop in Dallas (Garland)and sold the business to me.I took over the lease from him in 1992 and kept the name "Fry St. Records (& Things)" and kept the zebra stripes also. The owner of the property sold the store and his other property (no other property was sold at that time, only the building) which was the Delta Lodge, the old Sigma Alpha Mu or as we called the Sammy house.The lodge were my neighbors. The Lodge bought it because they were going to lose there back stage and most of there back yard if the properties were separated (the lot owned by the Deltas or Sammys was always a simple rectangle that included the store, and had to be "re-platted" by the city in order to have the store portion sold). I lost my lease to the Deltas in the spring of 95 (it was actually June of 1994 that The Zebra's Head first took over the building, and opened in July). Then and only then did it take on the name "The Zebra Head" (actually, The Zebra's Head was started under a lease from The Delta Lodge, and wasn't sold to the owner until much later). The building still stands and is still painted like a zebra but inside the store under the white paint (there are spirals now) on the walls is a mural I painted when I owned the shop. The people that took over when I was gone painted the walls white...

Posted April 26, 2012 From Eric Brown Former owner of Fry Street Records, 113 Fry Street, Denton Texas — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.88.4.183 (talk) 02:30, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Party powder

What's a "party powder"? Kendall-K1 (talk) 13:39, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Removed adds

Somebody added some adds for a UK headshop chain called "Red Eye" so I got rid of them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.144.65.142 (talk) 17:23, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Propaganda

I'm sorry if I'm stating the obvious, but this page does not once mention that items purchased in Head Shops can be used for illegal substances. This page is nothing more than a press release espousing the virtues of your local friendly "water pipe" distributor. This page needs to be changed... drastically. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.61.224.146 (talk) 23:48, 28 June 2013 (UTC)