Scott Signs "Bong Ban" Into Law
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) -- Stores selling certain hardware typically used for smoking marijuana have until July 1 to unload those items.
Among about a dozen bills signed Wednesday by Gov. Rick Scott was the "bong ban" bill (HB 49), which prohibits the sale of metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic, or ceramic smoking pipes, chillums or bongs.
The bill allowed pipes to continue to be sold that are primarily made of briar, meerschaum, clay or corn cob, which are typically used to smoke tobacco.
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Darryl Rouson, D-St. Petersburg, has said the bill wouldn't eradicate pot smoking, but "we're going to stop making it convenient."
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