The Vanguard on Saturday covered the city’s proposed tobacco ordinance.
Good article in this morning’s Sacramento Bee on the ordinance.
Highlights:
“On Thursday, Alkhatib stood in front of an impressive display of what some people might think were marijuana bongs. He sold a large water pipe to a young woman for more than $150. Asked about her purchase, the woman wrapped her arms around the pipe and hurried away.”
Here’s my favorite quote:
Standing outside a nearby bar, Jay Grover, a 23-year-old UC Davis student, said he couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about.
“It’s ridiculous,” he said. “It’s like old-people drama.”
“It’s like old-people drama.”
That’s hilarious. Ironic too given that the “old people” are generally the same baby-boomers that made smoking paraphernalia fashionable.
I might have a different view point if the war against drugs actually resulted in people not being able to find illegal smoking material to stuff in these fancy water pipes. Given the handy availability of the illegal raw material, how is the public served by a crusade against one type of apparatus used to consume it? Maybe we should outlaw inhaling. Otherwise, I think these water pipes might even qualify as replica-antiques for people under forty.