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DETROIT (WWJ) – Be careful of what’s being sold under the counter.
Crack pipes are being sold at neighborhood stores from Detroit to the suburbs.

That’s according to former Detroit police officer David Mahalab, who says the pipes are disguised as novelties.

“To avoid police detection and to try to avoid the law, they put a pen insert – (in) a glass tube, and try to evade the law, which talks about paraphernalia and stuff that has a second use,” says Mahalab.

Mahalab says they’re also disguised as a ballpoint pen or small glass vases with a rose sticking out of them.

Mahalab says people may be surprised where the pipes are being sold.

“Dollar stores, gas stations, liquor stores, virtually every store in the 6th Precinct that I did enforcement with, were given a ticket and found guilty. I’ve seen them in Allen Park, Dearborn Heights and Garden City,” says Mahalab.

Mahalab says the pipe sales are lucrative, but bring crack addicts and crime to neighborhoods.
 

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The cigarette store by me has everything from snuff bullets, used for cocaine, to speed and crack pipes, all sold at tobacco pipes. I’ll tell you this, there is not feasible way you can smoke tobacco from a meth pipe. But they get away with it.
 

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Yup nothing new in the Hampton Roads area. Most "Mom and Pop" gas stations sell the roses in tubes along with the copper colored "steel" wool.
 

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Yup nothing new in the Hampton Roads area. Most "Mom and Pop" gas stations sell the roses in tubes along with the copper colored "steel" wool.
Yes, seen those around for years, amazing they can get away with it. At the hardware store I worked at we stopped carrying "chore boy" after most of it was getting stolen anyway.
 
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This makes me giggle. In this town, for about the last 10yrs, they have sold "Handy Bags". It's a tiny brown paper sack with Chore Boy, one of the glass rose things, and a piece of metal about twice as long as the tube, looks like you just cut up a wire clothes hanger. They sell for like $2 or something. It's just a crackhead kit. Now alongside that, they sell, "oil burners" AKA meth pipes. Gotta love this town (shame)
 

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Why it gott be detroit:) next time u get gas look for the little mini roses in a glass tube...or the brillo pad samples..."I smoke rocks":) more disturbing is that my cigar store has a bigger selection of glass pipes for weed than cigars...that is craziness...
 

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Why it gott be detroit:) next time u get gas look for the little mini roses in a glass tube...or the brillo pad samples..."I smoke rocks":) more disturbing is that my cigar store has a bigger selection of glass pipes for weed than cigars...that is craziness...
and it's probably easier to get weed than good cigars!
 

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Shut up. You're screwing up my marketing.:smokingbo:smokingbo:smokingbo
 

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Sorry to say this is nothing new - whether they sell them in the stores or not, addicts have their ways. If they stopped selling the beautiful multi-colored glass 'water-pipes' (which really are beautiful), people would go back to tin foil & apples/soda cans/bottles/pens/carboard tubes/etc...

I tend to be pretty libertarian on this particular issue: I don't want big brother telling me what I can & cannot put into my body.
 
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