Comments on: They Put Their Weed In It

By: Skip

Skip — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:21:51 +0000

Funny – I came across this while looking to buy a few of the 1 x 1 basggies for …….. Screws for Notebook hardware ….. I guess I should avoid Chicago too. Too bad – I’ve been a Cubs fan for years. No more Wrigley’s Field :-(

By: R.J, Smith

R.J, Smith — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:19:30 +0000

As we say in Brooklyn NY. Ban this, fuggetaboutit

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:42:00 +0000

Buy a suit, go to jail.

By: thorn

thorn — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:22:17 +0000

If they want to get rid of drugs, why are they bothering with plastic bag laws? Why don’t they just make DRUGS illegal?

oh… right…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:08:11 +0000

This is the most inane bunch of BS I’ve ever heard of. There are probably a thousand Geocachers in Chicagoland who use exactly these baggies to keep logbooks dry in caches they have hidden. many other legitemate uses have been articulated above.

They should also ban Dihydrogen Monoxide, since studies have shown that 100% of drug abusers ingest this dangerous substance on a regular basis. Everyone agrees that inhalation of even a small amount Dihydrogen Monoxide is fatal. Lake Michigan is lousy with the stuff, and it’s been found in every river in Chicagoland. When will government act to protect us???

By: skwooey

skwooey — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:16:50 +0000

Never heard of this idiot alderman, but he should be fined, sanctioned, and most of all be made fun of! Hey, fellow Chicagoans, maybe they’ll pass a law and pay a bounty for all of our teeny weenie widdle baggies. Get them off the street! Weez fighting a drug war gosh darnit!!!

By: skwooey

skwooey — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:02:30 +0000

So much for those replacement screws that come with practically every type of appliance: phones, radios, TV’s, etc. and only jillions of other things. These gosh darn drug dealers will stop at nothing these days to obtain these valuable “containers”. Time to start taking pictures of ALL Radio Shack customers.
Chicago’s finest… always ahead of the game I tell ya!!!

By: Observant Bystander

Observant Bystander — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:56:39 +0000

Ochressandro,

The story and video you linked to is interesting, but the reporter did not do a very good job of explaining the story. Why did Scott flag down a police officer? The story says she needed help. It’s not clear why. And why was her car towed? Something is missing here.

(And why did the officer search her purse? She apparently wasn’t arrested. Did she consent?)

By: Shon

Shon — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:55:52 +0000

Colson
In DC they have already done something like that. They banned the selling of single roses because the plastic and glass ends that held water were being used to smoke crack. Or so they claimed.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:18:42 +0000

I know. Let’s make drugs illegal! Yeah, that’ll fix it. Oh, wait.

By: Jim Collins

Jim Collins — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:53:46 +0000

I have got to see how this comes out. I play darts and buy my tips, flights and shafts from a business in Chicago. I wonder what they will start packaging them in now?

By: Tokin42

Tokin42 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:30:58 +0000

shooters should not be gooking off on their spoons, it’s bad form.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:26:33 +0000

“I just bought a guitar hanger and they had a little baggie in the kit with the screws and anchors…”

The screws for computer components often come in those little bags, too.

By: colson

colson — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:53:36 +0000

oops – that was supposed to be *cook*, not *gook*

By: colson

colson — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:52:56 +0000

I’m cross-posting my comments from the Coyote Blog who had the same quote:

“So my next question would be whether they plan on banning metal spoons from restaurants so shooters can’t gook off of spoons?

Or, wait for it, they make Pepsi stop making cans that can quickly be converted to make a pipe.

Ooh, how about banning bic pens. Ever wonder what a bunch of plastic pens that are partly melted without the innards are for?

Oh, and we better get rid of any type of paper currency that can be rolled up to serve as a tooter.

Hmmm…. balloons – work great for selling larger portions of coke and meth.

Will they go after PVC tubing and funnels in hardware stores so kids don’t make beer bongs? Or in the case of huffers – are they going after hardware stores for socking paint and solvents (which they have at times when the media jumps back on the huffing bandwagon)?

And how could I forget tin foil.

Any free-baser worth his or her own salt need tin foil.

steel wool pads – for those who smoke out of a glass pipe, you put a bit of steel wool in there and after your are done, you can scrape the insides clean or smoke the leftover crystals stuck to the glass just by heating up the steal wool.

I wonder if we could ban the paper that LSD blotter is put on?” And we better not have any reusable droppers sold to keep liquid lsd out of the hands of kids who might use it as a LSD dispenser.

Holy shit. Can you imagine what police would do if limoges caught on in this century? It would be an all-out war on fancy porcelain pill boxes.

By: Ochressandro

Ochressandro — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:30:41 +0000

Radley: New Professionalism Strikes Back — http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=87513

By: Coin Collector Joe

Coin Collector Joe — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:09:49 +0000

Also note that coin dealers/collectors use baggies of this size for coins in many cases. I have received many coins in these small baggies (low to middle-low value ones, higher value ones usually get a real holder.)

By: Nichole

Nichole — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:31:56 +0000

I live in a rural area and grow a herb garden in the spring and dry my own herbs to sell (Not weed. I am talking about basil, oregano, etc). Sometimes I use these bags to sell single-use dried organic herb mixes for tacos, fajitas etc at the farmer’s market (cheaper than the “taco bell” mixes at the store and with no msg!). Also I sometimes make perfumed bath salts or salt rubs and I use the little baggies for selling them in one-bath-use only at the market as well.

Sometimes I am afraid if a cop ever notices the baggies he will think I’m selling crack and weed (you can imagine what these look like. Yeah, I live on the edge)… even though they generally have labels/instructions stapled to the baggies but that aside, I am damn happy I do not live near Chicago….

By: Rebeccafrog

Rebeccafrog — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:22:44 +0000

Bead stores are going to be in quite a lot of trouble, too.

By: tom

tom — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:07:30 +0000

I wonder how much we pay these people to sit around all day and dream this shit up. I am not the smartest SOB in the world, but things like this would never even occur to me.