Many people may not be familiar with this 1960s term “head shop”, but at least one such shop exists in most of the cities here in US. So, what is a head shop? And how they got that name? Head shops are retail outlets for gears used in consumption of legal herbs or tobacco. The term head shop has its origins in 1960 and since in use to reference shops that sell drugs related stuff or accessories.

The products in head shops includes dab rigs, bong, cigarette rolling papers of every size and make, rolling machines, grinders and many more items. From simple one hitters, these shops in lines enormous verities of glass pipes, water pipes and other pipes such as silicon bongs and metal hookahs. Head shop also sell incense, psychedelic art and jewelry. Even though people usually associate them with cannabis, these shops sell legal herbs and smoking substance such as tobacco and vape juices.

The head shops originated decades ago, around 1960s and were an aspect of hippy culture. They are the go-to shops for anybody interested in accessories for smoking and smoking supplies. There are many theories about where the word head shop came from. The liberal youth movement of 1960s and 1970s, popularly known as hippy culture that sought out love and human companionship used this term to represent a place. The place that provided hippies with the materials they pursued in order to have a magical time. Head shops were used as a place to commune by members of counterculture community of that time. Many say that the Psychedelic Shop, which opened in 1966 in San Francisco, was the first Head shop in US.

In today’s era, as it is illegal to sell cannabis in many of the states in US, these head shop establishments sell paraphernalia that relates to herbs or tobacco use. Paraphernalia refers to papers that are used to roll dried herbs into joints or cigarettes, pipes, water pipes, bongs and many more gears such as modern vaporizers and vape kits. Everyone likes to smoke and vape in their own way. Apart from smoking implements, most of the head shops in stocks Incenses, the organic materials that releases aromatic smoke on burning it as well as psychedelic art pieces. Psychedelic art pieces are visual displays that are motivates hallucinations or mind-altering experiences. Though heads hops sell posters, T-shirts and jewelry, their best sellers are smoking implements such as pipes, grinders and vaporizers.

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