Should it be illegal to sell the tiny glass tubes with the silk roses in them?

They're often sold in convenience stores and they're mainly used as crack pipes. If they weren't sold, would crackheads have a hard time finding a pipe?

Should it be illegal to sell the tiny glass tubes with the silk roses in them?
They should switch to plastic and video the crackheads trying to use them. Show the video on AFV.
Reply:Unfortunately if a crackhead wants to smoke, they can find many things to smoke out of. I have heard of using the mini liquor bottles even. I don't think that making the silk roses illegal to sell would deter a drug addict from finding another way.
Reply:pleeeeease. if there is a will there is a way. do you really think if they quit selling roses in them the people who use them as crack pipes won't find something else to use. i wasn't aware of them being used as crack pipes but then i don't smoke crack.
Reply:Well Huh! I have never heard of this before. I don't think you can take away everything that drug users need to make pipes though. So I don't think it should be illegal. You would have to take away toilet paper tubes and aluminum foil too. I've heard of that one.
Reply:No it should not be illegal. Thats like saying that any product that has a potentially unlawful use should be disallowed. No more hammers because someone broke into a house by smashing a window? No more glue because a couple people sniffed it to get stoned. Not realistic.
Reply:Crackheads would find an alternative. Keep the roses.
Reply:They should be illegal to buy for use with crack.
Reply:They are crackheads so I am sure they would find another way to smoke crack. I think they would just get some brillo pads and shove it into another tube.
Reply:What? I didn't even know this. Should it be illegal to own a gun since criminals always misuse them? The question if answered yes is just putting a bandaid on the problem.



An Old wise person told me you got to get passed all the flies to get down to the real crap that is the problem.



However, one state outlawed the sale if cough medicine over the counter and it has reduced its meth problem by more than half.
Reply:No because anything can be used as a crack pipe. . .anything from a car antenna to a coke can. We can't go around banning everything because some people use it for an illegal purpose.
Reply:I would say no. Just because a product can be misused does not mean it should be eliminated or regulated. Think of the decongestant, pseudoephedrine. Now you have to buy it in small quantities, and give your name and address and ID because it's used to make meth. How many regulations and laws do you want to have to follow?
Reply:uh honey, there is these things called head shops, they sell pipes bongs and anything and EVERYTHING in between, and they have signs all over the walls that says for tobacco use only!!! You tell me do you think that everyone that buys something from there uses it for tobacco, wheather it be smoking pot or smoking crack?
Reply:yes it should be but these Day's People don't think about what they make the just want the money for what they make ! so that why i agree wit yu why did they make them
Reply:Yep. It would be just as simple to put them in plastic and no one could put that in their pipe and smoke it.



It should also be illegal for undercover cops to raid these convenience stores owned by immigrants, mainly Indians, because they sold legal items to an under cover cop that could be made into a crack recipe.



The standard procedure was for the undercover cop to gather the stuff he wanted to make an arrest and tell the person taking his money that he needed these things to finish up or make a "cook."



Some of these people speak English well but don't understand the slang of the drug world. A "cook" means nothing to me, but it's a slang word for making drugs. Several were busted for selling items that were legal but in combination could be part of creating illegal drugs.
Reply:No because a crack addict will find something else to make a pipe out of i.e. pop bottle, pop can, foil and ink pen.
Reply:The fact of the matter is if you looked at everything that could be used for something illegal you would have to outlaw most everything.

Even empty toilet paper rolls have been used to make pipes for smoking pot.

Pennies have been smached and beaten out to make coke spoons.

Diaper Saftey pins have been used for roach clips, so where do you draw the line..... you don't. You have to put a stop to the manufacture on sales of illegal drugs to prevent the use of normal everyday items from being used for illegal purposes.
Reply:No, I'm sure that crackheads would make a pipe out of anything. I mean, under this reasoning, soda cans would soon become illegal!!!



However, those little glass tubes have absolutely no other purpose than for crack smoking. Seriously. The manufacturers know this I'm sure!
Reply:No, they wouldn't have a hard time. They will do whatever they can if they have an addiction.



Drugs are illegal but crackheads still find ways to get them, right?
Reply:If it is a front for illegal drugs then yes it is illegal. Let the police know. One doesn't have to tell your name.
Reply:I actually bought them to give to my GF as cute little gifts(shes not a crack head).

I also recently purchased "Tree stump remover" from home depot and I made gunpowder with it. There is not a stump of a tree near me.

Lets make all these products illegal.

Fertilizers, baking soda, powdered sugar, BULLETS oh and lets not forget the brillo pad that goes along with the crack pipe.
Reply:They'd probably just improvise. I don't think that's a viable solution to the problem unfortunately.
Reply:1. Should we make baseball bats illegal because someone can use them to break a window? How about making matches illegal because someone can use it to smoke something that's illegal? Obviously ridiculous.



2. No. Addicts will ALWAYS find a way to satisfy their addiction. They will find, buy or MAKE a pipe out of whatever they can. You will not stop them from being addicts by preventing them from getting glass tubes.



Are you using your head today?
Reply:Yes it should be illegal to sell those and anything else related to making it easier for crack heads to smoke their rocks.Take it from someone who No's and has lost everything because of it.I'm proud to say that I'm 5 yrs. clean a

nd going strong.So my answer is ::::::::::::::YES:::::::::::::: Oh and by the way I'm getting everything back and more!!!!!
Reply:if they illegalized everything that could be used as drug paraphernalia we'd loose allot of products. You can make a bong out of a plastic bottle, heat heroin up on a spoon, you'd have to take straws off the market too.

They would always find a way.
Reply:no. what should be illegal are the glass pipes that are sold at convenience stores that have no other purpose than to smoke crack on but they are sold as decorations or tobacco
Reply:Well im sure that they would find something else to use if they were that desperate. Should people stop selling teaspoons so people didn't use them in the process of injecting heroin, NO I think not.
Reply:no I'm sure crackheads would find other places and other things to smoke out of
Reply:I just noticed the convenience store where I get my morning coffee doing the same thing. There's some tenement housing right across the street and I've often seen deals go down while getting into and out of my truck. I told the manager of the store he was asking for trouble and he agreed, but said the owner of the chain is the one making them sell paraphernalia for drugs. They said it makes more money for them than coffee or soft drinks do in comparison.



There are pipes, scales, papers and those little tubes all in a glass case at the front. I don't stop there anymore. I feel sorry for the manager because he said he only has two years left to retirement and he'll take the hit if vice shows up.



However to answer the question...they can make a pipe out of anything so I really don't think it would make a difference.
Reply:they shouldnt be illegal cuz baseheads would find another way 2 smoke crack anyways so whats the point in makin them illegal