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By Jordan Michael

A bill in Florida’s state legislature banning the sale of drug paraphernalia would keep smokers from buying certain pipes and smoking items and may force head shops to close their doors.

              Florida law allows for the sale of glass pipes, bongs and other drug related paraphernalia to be sold by licensed tobacco retailers, but a bill by state Rep. Darryl Ervin Rouson, D-St. Petersburg, seeks to make that illegal.

            Items like glass pipes and bongs are legal to sell at retail but can only make up 25 percent of the revenue generated by a licensed tobacco retailer.

            The law only puts a restriction on the percentage of revenue generated, not a percentage of items available for sale.

            Tallahassee has 127 licensed tobacco retailers, according to Florida’s Department of Professional Regulation, the licensing body for Florida businesses.

            Some of those 127 retailers primarily sell cigars, cigarettes and tobacco products but others like The Tobacco Leaf Smokeshop focus on the items that would be banned by this bill.

            Jase Nease The Tobacco Leaf’s general manager said that while the law is specific, it is ineffective, not requiring shops like The Tobacco Leaf to keep accurate records or undergo audits.

            “It’s a risk you take but we don’t take accurate enough records to do that, so we wouldn’t be accountable,” Nease said.

            While their records would not reflect it, Nease said that the sale of percentage-restricted items like glass pipes makes up “probably a good 60 [percent],” of their business, 35 percent more than the 25 percent allowed by Florida law.

            Nease said that the current law has little if any effect on their business, though a loss of 60 percent of their business could shut them down.

            Trey Fletcher, manager of Jerry’s Cigars, a traditional cigar and tobacco shop that does not sell items mentioned in this law, said the shop gets a lot of people asking for rolling papers, glass pipes and synthetic marijuana.

            Fletcher said that Rouson’s bill would not have any effect on a shop like Jerry’s either way but, “if Jerry [the owner] would bring in some of those items like rolling papers and cheap cigars that they would use to roll blunts it would boost profits.”