Yet they advertise a discounted car next to this hack which will kill, maim and suffocate more people during its lifetime than any random pot head.. unless they are driving it perhaps..

how very queensland:

if you ban the paraphernalia you curb the use.

wrong over and over and over and over again.

kunnington better stock up

pooh as if you can't make yr own six million dollar bong

shit to clean anyway glass bongs

rach: the catalyst is the prevention of sales of pipes for smoking meth.

bongs are the collateral damage.

Beattie bans bongs and pipes

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November 23, 2006 - 4:10PM
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The sale of bongs and other drug smoking equipment will be banned in Queensland, Premier Peter Beattie says.

The state opposition says a number of businesses in the heart of Surfers Paradise have glass pipes and other implements associated with illegal drug use prominently displayed in their windows.

One shop was even promoting schoolies' specials, opposition health spokesman John-Paul Langbroek said.

The pipes are used for smoking crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as "ice" when the nation was in the grip of an ice epidemic, Mr Langbroek said.

Mr Beattie said if it was true retailers were promoting glass pipes at a discount, that was "absolutely outrageous and unacceptable."

"I don't think we should have greed over human misery," Mr Beattie told reporters today.

"I think they should stop immediately.

"I do want to warn these retailers you will not be selling these implements much longer because the Queensland government plans to have them banned."

It is illegal under current Queensland current laws to use glass pipes for illegal drugs but retailers often bypass the laws by advertising them as tobacco-smoking implements or port sippers.

AAP

I'm locking this in the safe though!

Fucking hell. Ya can smoke meth in a broken lightbulb fer fucks.

Should we ban lightbulb sales, too?

I'm sure retailers would get around it by advertising them as "Illumination devices", though.

good idea modi.

all of it.

step 1: break lightbulbs
step 2: ???
step 3: profit!

ms godzilla's father used to own a gift shop. he could never understand why so many young men bought the "fancy pipes", when you never see them smoking pipes in public,

Thanks Loads, wanna go "change a lightbulb" later?

I aint even SEEN a bong in nearly 10 years.

you know it brother.

How many meth heads does it take to change a light bulb?

I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU BITCH!!!!!!

crikey

well it looks like NSW retailers are gonna clean up big time.

i wonder if this ban includes vapourizers and hookahs too...

oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh

and sisha?

and buckets?

youre just being silly now, devo

first they won't adopt daylights savings (something about cows, or curtains), now they ban the bong. sucks to be a queenslander.

why silly? hardware stores are gonna clean up as well.

i mis-spelt shisha. also my avatar features a shisha. also i have to change my avatar cause i'm sick of it. also i like repitition

surely they couldnt ban shisha's? what will happen to the cool as fuck old turkish dudes on the street corners??

can i tell my shisha anecdote, think i'm drunk enuff too.... i smoked shisha with berbers on the north-western edge of the sahara in morrocco. BAM! one of the highlights of my life. and then their was a storm which was rad and we played drums and sang songs and drank and smoked all night. good shit.

I can't wait to go to morrocco! (IT WILL HAPPEN!)

Shishas are fucking awesome! I smoke them every now and then with the man from the shop down the street. In fact, there are 2 shops on Lygon st within a block of each other where dudes smoke shishas on the street. It's mad. Especially when you throw in a little of the ol' wacky tobaccy in there with yummy apple tobacco....

mmmm....shisha...

'retailers often bypass the laws by advertising them as tobacco-smoking implements or port sippers.'

seriously! what crazy person is believing bongs are for sipping port?

next someone'll be explaining syringes as a way to delicately taste caviar.

hahaha Passions. Nice...

Port sippers is a bit far out eh? Next party I go to, you'll know me cos I'll be the one sipping port from a bong!

what a fucking joke... that shit better be staying in qld.

Interesting since Beattie loosened possession laws earlier in his reign.

I want to sip port from a bong now.

And now Bailleu wants to ban bongs, should he be elected.

i preferred making bongs to buying them when i smoked.

i'd select two choice lengths of bamboo, clean and sand as required before assembling into the type you could actually insert your chin into when pulling cones. cones were either a bit of Coke can formed into desired shape and size or turned brass if access to a lathe.

when people who used store bought bongs offered me a cone they'd pull it out from behind the couch but usually hadn't changed the bong water or cleaned it in ages. it's a fucked feeling smoking out of such a bong.

bailleu needs to go back to having a circle jerk with robert doyle. Now that's something worth cleaning up.

About time too. It's a scourge on our state.

Our adolescents and twentysomethings sitting in darkened rooms with Doors posters and Pink Floyd albums need to get out and enjoy the fresh air.

fuck I hate the state of australian politics at the moment. there is no-one that represents my views. I'm so fucking sick of this nanny state bullshit.

hey guyz, let's pretend we are doing something about the evils of drugs by doing something completely pointless and ineffectual!

why don't they just ban tally hos and cookies while they're at it?