War of the rose...er vials.
I pointed out those little "rose pipes" to my girl friend like 7 months ago, and said flat out the only reason little run down convience stores even have them is solely for the purpose of giving crack heads a new pipe.
These are the same type of stores that have one of those plastic candy bins the old atom bomb sour candies used to come in stuffed with copper scouring pads labeled 25 cents each.
You can laugh, and make comments about protecting the children all you like, but the simple fact is, The convience stores only have the items for one purpose, to sell to crack-heads. Enabling and to a certain kind of mind approving the use thereof.
In case you didn't notice,they aren't winning the "War on drugs" and they never will. Like any war, one side has a strategy, the other side adapts and overcomes that strategy, the opposing side then develops a new strategy to get around the other force. You can argue all you want about making crack pipes outta light bulbs, car antennas so on and so forth, and how this one little thing wont make a difference and is just oppressin the man, but thats just the nature of warfare. They have cut off one avenue, now the crack heads got to find another.
upon reflection I find I have to balence this particular thing, its hard to do for me. Part of me watches all these kind of things and says this is just one more baby step the goverment is taking to rule our lives, ( I call it "watching the small snowflake fall then suddenly there is a avalanche" theory) Another part of me see this as a sensible step to make life a little more difficult on a certain segment of people whom I know cost me money( prisons cost money), cost me time(jury duty cost time) and a myrid of other things that are a result of drug use in america.
Is this little piece of county legislation going to stop drug use, absolutely not. Am I going to lose any sleep over the fact that I can't( not that I ever would in the first place) buy one of those silly little things in a piss poor attempts at being romantic? Absolutely not. Its just not important enough in my universe.