Grocery Stores Selling Drug Paraphernalia

This story caught my eye this weekend:

Police Bust Denton Store For Selling Drug Items

It talks about a store in The Colony that was busted selling crack pipes.

If you think that these stores are only in Denton County, you're kidding yourself. This is a problem all over Dallas. There were a few busts at stores in Lake Highlands a few years back, but it's still a huge problem.

These items do not look like an actual crack pipe like you've seen in a movie. They are four-inch glass tube with a removable fake rose inside. They are sometimes sold separately or in a kit with a steel-wood pad, which is used to filter the crack rock or meth so these addicts can get high. The nicknames used include ""straight shooter," "love rose," ""rose tubes," and a "glass."

The so-called rose is simply a way to give the store owner an "out" and claim ignorance of its real purpose. But if 9 out of 10 people that buy the item look suspect, what would you think? The store owners know exactly what they're doing.

The pictures on this post are from various news sources.

They're already banned in Michigan, Chicago and San Francisco. In Washington, DC, citizens challenged the liquor license of every store that sold the items.

We need your help to help root out these plagues on the neighborhood. No one person can rid the community of drugs, but if we all pitch in we can make a difference.