The Rock Hill police don’t have enough to do. That’s the only conclusion you can reach while considering their request for a new drug paraphernalia law. That’s right, it’s not enough that they’re spending valuable time busting people for possession of pot — time that could be better spent investigating real crimes — now, they want to find another source of revenue, er, I mean, they want to further protect citizens from the scourge of the evil weed. Yeah, that’s it. Really, people. A ban on bongs? What is this, 1970?
Here’s a couple of suggestions: one, with the U.S. economy in the crapper, we should be promoting bong sales — as long as they’re made in the U.S.A., as illustrated by this fine poster.
The second suggestion is that, if Rock Hill police get their anti-paraphernalia law, shops that sell bongs in that burg should just do what other bong sellers do everywhere else: say they’re for smoking tobacco. Or better yet, say they’re very unusual flower vases.
This article appears in Best of Charlotte 2009.
So was interracial marriage a “real crime” until 1967, Frank? While it may be a foreign concept for you, trying using your brain from time to time.