This is getting fucking nuts...

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=200 ... ">Asscroft cracks down on scales and pipes...</a>

This is getting fucking nuts...</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>uhm...sites that sold drug related items were shut down...how is this in any way bad?</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Scales? Pipes? What's to say what is a "drug-related" item? Some people still buy pipes for smoking tobacco and other legal herbs. It's a fucking piece of metal and glass.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/stor ... >Wow...you mean actually show the other side of things?</a>

And just to show the difference (ie: bias) among journalists, here's the same article by a different site.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>key word "some people" and I bet they used discretion here. Chances are if you're the type to smoke a pipe you're not going to buy it on someone's freakin website</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Why not? Some pipes are fucking expensive. Besides, it shouldn't matter what it's being used for, because it's a FUCKING PIECE OF GLASS! I could call a spoon "drug paraphernalia". I could call a coke can "drug paraphernalia". I could call a shampoo bottle "drug paraphernalia".</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Western PA? Jesus, I'm never gonna get a bowl.</div>

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>What a big waste of time and money.</div>

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Heh: ``It would be more logical - although I'm not suggesting this - to prosecute people who sell beer mugs because of the poison consumed in them,''</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>*sigh* I should know better by now than to argue with all the pro-druggy finatics around here</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Yeah they arrested 2 people here for it....and guess what also.....both arab. hmmmmm</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>It doesn't matter if you're pro-druggy or not. You don't outlaw glass. Scales are NOT illegal!</div>