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Great,now trouble at the other Border...
montanajoe
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Yup, lots of folks lighting up their bongs, cranking up the Grateful dead and grooving with their favorite menthol blends.
Several years back, on shore leave in Dubai, I purchased an authentic hookah and a few packs of the tobacco "pucks". Really great looking piece. Very nicely cut green glass bottom with a modestly, but skillfully, engraved silver pipe top and a couple good quality hoses to go with it. I didn't want to worry about cramming the thing into a locker and breaking it, so I went to the UPS in the same mall and shipped it home.
Fast forward a number of months and I am back in the States without a hookah. I couldn't figure out where it was because the UPS tracking number showed that it flew into Kentucky... then vanished. About 3 months after I got home from deployment I received a letter from Customs telling me that it is illegal to import "drug paraphernalia" into the USA, but they'd "hold it" if I gave them $500 dollars, then traveled to their field office in Kentucky (from California) to request a hearing where they would decide whether or not to destroy it.
Never mind that there is a head shop less than a mile from my home where I could legally buy a hookah and the tobacco that goes with it.
To add insult to injury, a hookah smoking parlor called "Sultana Lounge" opened up (just down the street from me) a couple years ago.
Does that make any friggin' sense?
The problem isn't just with the USA-Mexico or USA-Canada borders.
Several years back, on shore leave in Dubai, I purchased an authentic hookah and a few packs of the tobacco "pucks". Really great looking piece. Very nicely cut green glass bottom with a modestly, but skillfully, engraved silver pipe top and a couple good quality hoses to go with it. I didn't want to worry about cramming the thing into a locker and breaking it, so I went to the UPS in the same mall and shipped it home.
Fast forward a number of months and I am back in the States without a hookah. I couldn't figure out where it was because the UPS tracking number showed that it flew into Kentucky... then vanished. About 3 months after I got home from deployment I received a letter from Customs telling me that it is illegal to import "drug paraphernalia" into the USA, but they'd "hold it" if I gave them $500 dollars, then traveled to their field office in Kentucky (from California) to request a hearing where they would decide whether or not to destroy it.
Never mind that there is a head shop less than a mile from my home where I could legally buy a hookah and the tobacco that goes with it.
To add insult to injury, a hookah smoking parlor called "Sultana Lounge" opened up (just down the street from me) a couple years ago.
Does that make any friggin' sense?
It's all about random power grabs and control to keep the slaves in check.