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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Finding An Indianapolis Head Shop

By Paulette Short


These days it isn't easy to be a smoker. Finding paraphernalia like pipes or cigarette rolling papers can be a little like the search for the Holy Grail. Luckily there are shops that specialize in these items and if you find yourself in Indiana, you'll find what you need at an Indianapolis head shop.

A head shop specializes in everything a smoker might need. Here you'll find a wide range of tobacco-related products, from cigarette paper to pipes and even water pipes, as well as machines for rolling your own if you prefer, for instance, flavored tobacco. Often head shops also sell incense, legal drugs and underground publications.

Smoke shops were all the rage in the late 1960s, when the counterculture was blooming. The store that started it all was established in 1966, in the famous hippie mecca of Haight Street in San Francisco. When the hippies became respectable citizens, many stores closed their doors but now they're becoming increasingly popular again, especially in states where medical marijuana is legal.

While the stores focus on tobacco-related products, they are different from traditional tobacconists. Often they developed from candle shops and they still sell homeware items. Along with these you'll also find things like T-shirts, posters, jewelry, novelty items and underground publications. In fact, many underground artists and writers of the 1960s first made a name for themselves by selling their work in these shops.

While many people think of head shops as places where you can buy illegal drugs, this is a misconception. The items sold here are for use with legal substances like tobacco only. While they may be useful as drug paraphernalia, even mentioning this might get you expelled from the shop.

Especially in Indiana you shouldn't make the mistake of thinking the local smoke shop will approve of you using their products for illegal drugs. Marijuana laws in the state are still very strict and penalties for possession are severe. Until the state relaxes its laws in this regard, you're better off using the paraphernalia you buy for legal substances like flavored tobacco.

It may be difficult to find an unusual gift for an artistic nephew or niece in Indy. This is where the local head shop can come to the rescue too. Parents may frown upon it if you give their teenager a water pipe but an unusual T-shirt or piece of jewelry or a poster that glows in the dark may be a welcome gift. Simply buying it from the right shop will earn you some street cred with the young relative.

Indy has a variety of outlets where you can buy smoking paraphernalia. Most are clustered in Broad Ripple Village, the city's answer to New York's Greenwich Village. This trendy part of town is located about twenty minutes north of downtown Indianapolis and near Butler University. It's a progressive, vibrant and ethnically diverse neighborhood where you'll find bars and restaurants, venues for live music, quirky boutiques and of course shops for smokers. However, you don't have to come here to find an Indianapolis head shop. You'll also find some in other parts of town, such as in Speedway to the west of downtown. Simply look online for more details and also for customer reviews.




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