Town bans blunt wraps (I feel safer now!)

[The Straight Story]

Permits needed, tobacco products banned

Dighton (MA) - The Board of Selectmen, for the first time, passed a motion during Wednesday’s meeting to issue a fee of $125 to store clerks for permits to sell tobacco products.

Effective immediately, the board saw it as a way to help generate more funds for the town. There are seven places in town where tobacco products may be purchased.

The board passed a second motion, also effective immediately, to ban all blunt wraps, similar to rolling paper, but made out of tobacco.


http://www.wickedlocal.com/taunton/news/x99528094/Permits-needed-tobacco-products-banned

[DJ13]

1. Why require permits from the minimum wage clerks?

It should be the store that needs a permit.

[jmowreader]

5. You know why.

Seven stores that sell tobacco x ten clerks per store x $125 per clerk equals the $8750 they need to have the engine in the town's fire truck rebuilt.

[jmowreader]

2. I always wondered why these were legal

You can supposedly roll cigars with blunt wraps...but who rolls their own cigars, unless there's weed in them?

[hedgehog]

3. I never heard of this. Just think, something to smoke that can get you put in

jail AND give you lung cancer!

[THUNDER HANDS]

4. the same people who roll their own cigarettes

I'd imagine it's cheaper.

[jmowreader]

11. It can't be much cheaper

All the convenience stores in Lumberton have these on the counter right next to the register. (In Fayetteville it's not quite as widespread.) On the bag they come in, it says "not to be used for illegal purposes." They obviously know what these are for.

I think these are the 21st-century equivalent of the alcohol prohibition era's Wine Brick. This was a cube of compressed, dried grapes whose directions for use were couched as a warning: if you put this wine brick in a gallon of water, stir it and let it sit in a warm room for ten days, you will be in violation of the Volstead Act.

[rcrush]

6. So just buy a swisher or a cigarello and cut it open

Dump the tobacco out and put weed in it.

[NightWatcher]

7. guess I'll just use my bong

haha

[mike_c]

8. exactly....

:rofl:

[ZombieHorde]

9. When wraps are banned, only criminals will have wraps. nt

[givemebackmycountry]

10. Hey! I like wraps....

Chicken, avacado, some chili's and cheese...

mmmmmmmmmm.

[Blue_Tires]

12. ban blunt wraps??

i remember a community back in the 90s that tried to do that, and the folks who owned the gas stations threatened all-out WAR because of all the club traffic they were getting thurs/fri/sat nights...that proposal died a quick and silent death