Bong long gone

[Gruntus]

Bong long gone

 

The South Australian parliament has passed legislation banning the bong, the new laws making it illegal to sell any drug paraphernalia. The laws will make it illegal to sell bongs, water pipes, hash pipes, ice pipes, cocaine kits and any other items specifically used with illicit drugs. Until now it was illegal to use such equipment to take drugs, but not necessarily illegal to sell the equipment. Courts had to establish, beyond reasonable doubt, that the person in possession of the equipment intended to use it in connection with preparing or consuming an illegal drug. "To my knowledge just a handful of cases have been brought against commercial outlets selling drug paraphernalia because of the difficulty of proving that the seller intended the equipment be used in connection with preparing or consuming an illicit drug," said Attorney-General Michael Atkinson.--AAP

It just gets worse and worse in SA..

Edited April 11, 2008 by Gruntus

[lightning]

bad news there gruntus but this too shall pass, we will eventually win

[Ozzy420]

Qld now SA when will this shit stop and stop classing cannabis as a dangerous drug in the same class as other heavy drugs, when will the powers that be wake up to em selfs and come and face the facts that cannabis has so many good uses to it...

[Rose Gardener]

Oh this is just so wrong....

[tony2wheelsgood]

just how do they think this will help the "War Against Drugs"?

every college student knows how to make their own, it was just cool to have one of those fancy glass bits of art but a soft drinks bottle, a bucket????

[bloodshot_eyes]

Seems many dont with these laws!

 

Bong ban will harm cannabis smokers, users and experts say

 

 

TORY SHEPHERD, HEALTH REPORTER

 

April 11, 2008 12:10pm

 

 

THE Rann Government's ban on bongs will not stop drug use and could have dangerous flow-on effects on the health of pot smokers, according to users and experts.

 

The State Government last night passed tough new laws so anyone selling cannabis bongs or drug implements will face fines of up to $50,000 or two years in jail.

 

The laws cover the sale of implements such as hookahs, bongs, cocaine kits and pipes used to smoke deadly crystal methamphetamine, otherwise known as ice.

 

Do you agree with the decision to ban the sale of bongs? Vote in our poll on the right of this page and comment in the box at the bottom of this page.

 

One local drug expert, pharmacology associate professor Rodney Irvine, said users will seek other ways to inhale smoke and that could be more dangerous.

 

"When you close one loophole another one emerges, a different pattern of use emerges," he said

 

"They'll make them out of anything, obviously.

 

"I would say that there's a possibility those alternative homemade ones will have some problems."

 

Dr Irvine said smoking through a bong or water pipe was probably slightly less dangerous than using joints or pipes.

 

"Intuitively, I would say that smoking anything through a water pipe is a better option than smoking it in a joint or a spliff," he said.

 

"If you're smoking tobacco through a water pipe you've got cooler smoke. If there's cooler smoke, there are less volatile substances, therefore less tar."

 

Meanwhile, people are flooding online forums to discuss the new laws.

 

Many cannabis smokers say they will simply make their own pipes from household goods.

 

Jesekah of Adelaide said bongs should not be banned.

 

"People will just make their own... and in most cases that will involve smoking through plastic bottles... which is obviously very unhealthy," she said.

 

"The government would already know this."

 

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0...5006301,00.html

 

Most of the comments on this site are of the view that the laws are stupid, I cant agree more

Edited April 12, 2008 by bloodshot_eyes

[Al B. Fuct]

The stooooopidest thing about the QLD & SA bong bans is that they can't stop their residents from mail ordering- neither state can pass legislation enjoining ppl from outside those states from selling and posting bongs to buyers in QLD & SA.

 

They also have not restricted persons in SA or QLD from buying bongs, just from selling them.

 

Congratulations Rannistan for boosting commerce on them thar intarwebs!

[mullray]

The same government will supply millions of needles to injecting drug users but won't let people buy and sell bongs. That's hilarious (criminally insane). Oh well, I'm off to roll a spliff with Tally Ho chaps.... BAN THE BONG

[freddie]

At least in South Australia someone is kicking up a bit of a stink about it. Read the comments in bloodshot eyes link. In Queensland no one seemed to blink when this happened.

 

I guess vapes are banned as well? Madness.

 

Back to safe options like cheap plastic, blue tack, and foil.

[mullray]

I don't know why any of us are surprised by this. WA will do the same soon also. I also think they'll close hydroponic shops like they're talking about doing in Holland right now. Not good but that's what they're all about these days.