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Thursday, February 02, 2006
Bing Bong!
Caught some of the chatter this morning on WWMR's Preston & Steve. Topic was how Spencer Gifts honchos have been charged with selling drug paraphernalia at the Oxford Valley Mall store. Prosecutors argue you can't sell hookahs where there are marijuana posters -- and at least one salesguy who openly talked about drugs. Preston (hope I have the voices right) described a visit to a Spencer's: "I didn't know they had a whole pot section. ... After looking though the posters, I was walking around the store, and ... there's pot mugs ... drug candles ... everything just had pot leaves all over them." They wondered if every Spencer's in the area could get shut down.  "You know what else they sell at Spencer's? Beer bongs!" said Preston. "They had them hanging all over the place.""Is it kind of weird that you could get busted for a hookah pipe, but you wouldn't for something that facilitates, you know, beer-bonging?" said Steve. "Yeah but alcohol's legal. That's the difference." (Confession: Clueless about this, I had to eyeball the "funneling" entry on wikipedia. This picture of one shows what the chain sells online.) They mentioned that the stores "also sell sex stuff," like "sex dolls," and commented about how many head shop in the area have been closed down, like one near Villanova, although "there are still quote-unquote legitimate head shops," like one in Center Center and another in Exton. "When you go to purchase, or whatever, you just can't use any of the terminology. That is like the standard head-shop deal," said Steve.
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