I remember seeing something about how gas stations used to sell stems and tulip pipes before the government started cracking down on the crack epidemic. Just wondering if there’s some truth in this or if it was a myth.
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Glass tobacco pipes were sometimes sold at gas stations.
I recall seeing them back in the middle late 90s. Little roses in a glass tube. Didn’t know what they were for back then.
No, never. They were little glass tubes to hold tiny fake roses.
Obviously no ghetto gas station would ever sell a crack pipe.
Honestly I think I’ve seen them myself in the past 5 years. Ime they’re not sold at every gas station, just the ones in areas where you’d expect to find crack users.
You can still find gas stations and similar convenience stores that sell glass pipes.
Yeah. In many low income areas they would sell the Brillo pad and a lighter along with the tube as a kit
Small flower pipes were in gas stations, convenience stores and just about any small retailer in the early 1990’s. Also Chore Boy mesh for the crack as the deposit surface. Usually these were used by hard core smokers; occasional users had pipes like pot water pipes
They used to. They still do, but they used to, too.
So, you buy the fake rose/tulip in the vase, and then another item which I cannot remember what it was that had a foil cup, take stem to poke holes in the foil which then you would connect to the “vase.” Alternatively their are also little “brillo pads” for lack of a better term that are used for the bowl instead of the foil.
Some of the ones in shadier neighborhoods here still do. They sell “eucalyptus inhalers” or these thin glass pipes with a fake rose in it that look like a cheap gift and people take the rose out and it’s a crack pipe.
7-11 in my town sells them
I haven’t seen them in a while, these days it’s all the “tobacco pipes” that are actually for weed.
No, they never did. This is a complete myth. Usually you would get tulip bulb pipes from gardening and retail stores. You could also order them on the cheep from chemical supply companies.
They still do
100% they did. Not sure if they do now but they used to for sure
They still do, shiity gas stations usually sell glass pipes and for some reason cheap knives with skulls on em
they still do
Yah, “roses” because there was a little plastic rose inside the glass cylinder to give it a “legitimate” sale, sorta like how in illegal weed states head shops are anal about calling everything a tobacco pipe.
You stuff a bit of steel wool in the end to keep the crack or meth or whatever in place. I haven’t seen them in a while but I haven’t been looking for them lol. They were definitely around 10-15 years ago
19 comments
Glass tobacco pipes were sometimes sold at gas stations.
I recall seeing them back in the middle late 90s. Little roses in a glass tube. Didn’t know what they were for back then.
No, never. They were little glass tubes to hold tiny fake roses.
Obviously no ghetto gas station would ever sell a crack pipe.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/07/12/a-rose-in-a-glass-by-any-other-name-is-a-crack-pipe/amp/
Honestly I think I’ve seen them myself in the past 5 years. Ime they’re not sold at every gas station, just the ones in areas where you’d expect to find crack users.
You can still find gas stations and similar convenience stores that sell glass pipes.
Yeah. In many low income areas they would sell the Brillo pad and a lighter along with the tube as a kit
Small flower pipes were in gas stations, convenience stores and just about any small retailer in the early 1990’s. Also Chore Boy mesh for the crack as the deposit surface. Usually these were used by hard core smokers; occasional users had pipes like pot water pipes
They used to. They still do, but they used to, too.
So, you buy the fake rose/tulip in the vase, and then another item which I cannot remember what it was that had a foil cup, take stem to poke holes in the foil which then you would connect to the “vase.” Alternatively their are also little “brillo pads” for lack of a better term that are used for the bowl instead of the foil.
Some of the ones in shadier neighborhoods here still do. They sell “eucalyptus inhalers” or these thin glass pipes with a fake rose in it that look like a cheap gift and people take the rose out and it’s a crack pipe.
7-11 in my town sells them
I haven’t seen them in a while, these days it’s all the “tobacco pipes” that are actually for weed.
No, they never did. This is a complete myth. Usually you would get tulip bulb pipes from gardening and retail stores. You could also order them on the cheep from chemical supply companies.
They still do
100% they did. Not sure if they do now but they used to for sure
They still do, shiity gas stations usually sell glass pipes and for some reason cheap knives with skulls on em
they still do
Yah, “roses” because there was a little plastic rose inside the glass cylinder to give it a “legitimate” sale, sorta like how in illegal weed states head shops are anal about calling everything a tobacco pipe.
You stuff a bit of steel wool in the end to keep the crack or meth or whatever in place. I haven’t seen them in a while but I haven’t been looking for them lol. They were definitely around 10-15 years ago
Used to? They still do. 😅