The November 30 deadline is fast approaching for 200 San Diego Smoke Shops and Stores that were sent letters from City Attorney Mike Aguirre instructing them to cease sales of drug paraphernalia.
From San Diego City Beat:
In the days just before Thanksgiving, Aguirre, via the Drug Abatement Response Team (DART), sent out 200 letters to 52 smoke shops citywide, informing them that they must, by Nov. 30, stop selling anything that is considered drug paraphernalia by California law. Specifically, that means all the glass pipes, all the water pipes, all the little baggies, all the scales—all that stuff must go. Disobedience can be punished with a year in jail or a $1,000 fine per type of illegal equipment on display, which for some shop owners could work out to tens of thousands of dollars and an unpalatable chunk of jail time.
NBC San Diego is reporting that Aguirre "said the crackdown isn't targeting stores that cater to marijuana use; it is aimed at paraphernalia for using hard core drugs like crystal methamphetamine and rock cocaine. Often crack and methamphetamine pipes are sold under the guise of having other functions such as tobacco pipes and oil burners.
And now it's time for my old lady moment: "wait a minute those aren't oil burners?"
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