What You Can Expect From An Indianapolis Head Shop

By Paulette Short


These days it isn't easy to be a smoker. Finding paraphernalia like pipes or cigarette rolling papers can be a little like the search for the Holy Grail. Luckily there are shops that specialize in these items and if you find yourself in Indiana, you'll find what you need at an Indianapolis head shop.

A head shop specializes in everything a smoker might need. Here you'll find a wide range of tobacco-related products, from cigarette paper to pipes and even water pipes, as well as machines for rolling your own if you prefer, for instance, flavored tobacco. Often head shops also sell incense, legal drugs and underground publications.

The stores originated during the 1960s with the rise of the counterculture. The first of these shops seems to be one that opened in 1966 in Haight Street, San Francisco, a famous hippie hangout. Shops like these are now making a come-back, especially with the growth of the medical-marijuana industry.

The early smoke shops often began as shops where you could buy candles and incense. This is why you'll still be able to find more than just smoking paraphernalia at a head shop. You'll be able to go here for interesting clothing and jewelry, novelty items, underground publications, comic books and art too, just like in the Sixties when these shops often gave artists and writers their first break.

The same people who think cigarette papers are for rolling marijuana cigarettes often think that smoke shops are where you go to buy illegal drugs. This couldn't be further from the truth, however. The merchandise is strictly for use with tobacco and legal herbs.

Especially in Indiana you shouldn't make the mistake of thinking the local smoke shop will approve of you using their products for illegal drugs. Marijuana laws in the state are still very strict and penalties for possession are severe. Until the state relaxes its laws in this regard, you're better off using the paraphernalia you buy for legal substances like flavored tobacco.

It may be difficult to find an unusual gift for an artistic nephew or niece in Indy. This is where the local head shop can come to the rescue too. Parents may frown upon it if you give their teenager a water pipe but an unusual T-shirt or piece of jewelry or a poster that glows in the dark may be a welcome gift. Simply buying it from the right shop will earn you some street cred with the young relative.

Indy has a variety of outlets where you can buy smoking paraphernalia. Most are clustered in Broad Ripple Village, the city's answer to New York's Greenwich Village. This trendy part of town is located about twenty minutes north of downtown Indianapolis and near Butler University. It's a progressive, vibrant and ethnically diverse neighborhood where you'll find bars and restaurants, venues for live music, quirky boutiques and of course shops for smokers. However, you don't have to come here to find an Indianapolis head shop. You'll also find some in other parts of town, such as in Speedway to the west of downtown. Simply look online for more details and also for customer reviews.




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