These corner shops, at least the most egregiously hood-esque, cannot be compared to Electric Fetus or any other store which relies on a clientele that come from more than a couple blocks away and exercise selective purchasing such that the store needs to "market" one thing or another.
The Park Lake grocery is not marketing their stuff as tobacco related, I am 100% sure. The reason this store gets business is because dealers and users find the corner a good meeting place, and if they need a pipe or whatever to use the products they're exchanging, why the store is conveniently right there. If it weren't for the crack trade on this corner I don't think the store would be in business. (And there's another one directly across the street with even less stuff on the shelves!) Their groceries are overpriced and of dubious age and origin. My husband bought a candy bar there once and it was so old it tasted like plastic... Connie Nompelis West Phillips & Powderhorn --- Barbara Lickness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is actually illegal to sell drug paraphenalia in > Mpls. If you go into Electric Fetus where they sell > tobacco smoking products and mention that you might > use that product to consume an illicit drug the > employees in the store have been instructed not to > sell them to you. My neice used to work at the > Fetus, that is how I know about it. > > The drug paraphenalia sold in the corner stores are > not marketed as crack pipes. They are marketed for > use with tobacco or for other uses. They could not > sell them if they marketed them directly as drug > paraphenalia. > > Barb Lickness > Whittier > > > "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, > committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, > it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead > REMINDERS: > 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at > http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a > member is in violation, contact the list manager at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. > > 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > > For state and national discussions see: > http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: > http://e-democracy.org/mninteract > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused > Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:mpls@mnforum.org > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: > http://e-democracy.org/mpls > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@mnforum.org Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
