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So this story just ran recently on our local news:
http://www.wpxi.com/news/4449347/detail.html
"...PITTSBURGH -- It might look like a chintzy little gift -- an expression of love -- but it's much more than a rose in a glass tube.
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Trinkets Used As Crack Pipes
Target 11's Karen Welles and her hidden camera have been checking out convenience stores in the Pittsburgh area and found a lot of the seemingly innocent trinkets that make ideal pipes for smoking crack cocaine.
Just last year, federal drug agents seized 334,000 of them in Detroit.
And in Michigan and California, they're on the drug paraphernalia list.
Chicago has banned the sale of them, but in the Pittsburgh area you're free to sell them and buy them....
olice in Louisiana think adding the snippet of steel wool shows illegal intention.
So, they busted a store owner there for selling them together.
In the Pennsylvania crimes code, there is no specific list of items considered drug paraphernalia.
It's up to local police and district attorneys to make a case.
In Allegheny County, the district attorney's office only considers it paraphernalia once it's used..."
They can say that about ANYTHING. People will use anything for a drug habit, credit cards, dollar bills, razor blades, spoons, tin foil, apples, bottles...... wtf the possibilities are endless. They should ban all these items too i guess. :rolleyes: [img]graemlins/bs.gif[/img]
Definitely a case of T.M.G.I. Too Much Government Involvement
http://www.wpxi.com/news/4449347/detail.html
"...PITTSBURGH -- It might look like a chintzy little gift -- an expression of love -- but it's much more than a rose in a glass tube.
Video
Trinkets Used As Crack Pipes
Target 11's Karen Welles and her hidden camera have been checking out convenience stores in the Pittsburgh area and found a lot of the seemingly innocent trinkets that make ideal pipes for smoking crack cocaine.
Just last year, federal drug agents seized 334,000 of them in Detroit.
And in Michigan and California, they're on the drug paraphernalia list.
Chicago has banned the sale of them, but in the Pittsburgh area you're free to sell them and buy them....
olice in Louisiana think adding the snippet of steel wool shows illegal intention.
So, they busted a store owner there for selling them together.
In the Pennsylvania crimes code, there is no specific list of items considered drug paraphernalia.
It's up to local police and district attorneys to make a case.
In Allegheny County, the district attorney's office only considers it paraphernalia once it's used..."
They can say that about ANYTHING. People will use anything for a drug habit, credit cards, dollar bills, razor blades, spoons, tin foil, apples, bottles...... wtf the possibilities are endless. They should ban all these items too i guess. :rolleyes: [img]graemlins/bs.gif[/img]
Definitely a case of T.M.G.I. Too Much Government Involvement
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