In South Australia, The government has thought of a way to stop the cannabis smokers and all other drug users. This method that was accepted and made law to ban all bongs will actually do more harm then good. 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.  It’s just sad to see more restrictions on the Marijuana community. 

 In the United States it was brought up to ban the sale of bongs as well. Hopfully this law doesn’t influence the federal government to Ban bongs over here as well. It will be hard as some people really do need it as a way to take their medication.

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.

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.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 11th, 2008 at 3:36 am

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