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head shop
A head shop is a retail outlet specializing in paraphernalia used for consumption of cannabis, tobacco, legal highs, legal party powders and New Age herbs, as well as counterculture art, magazines, music, clothing, and home decor; some head shops also sell oddities, such as antique walking sticks and sex toys.
Products offered typically include pipes; pipe screens; bongs (also referred to as water pipes); cigarette clips; vaporizers; rolling papers; rolling machines; scales; blacklight-responsive posters; incense; cigarette lighters; and legal highs such as whipped-cream chargers (which contain nitrous oxide) and Salvia divinorum (both of which are illegal in some countries and some US states for recreational purposes).
==History==
American head shops originated in the 1960s in cities with high concentrations of college-age youth, often growing out of independently owned poster or candle stores. Historically, US head shops proliferated on St. Mark's Place in New York City's East Village, in West Los Angeles, in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, and in Chicago's Old Town. Sources cite the Psychedelic Shop on Haight Street in San Francisco as the first head shop in the United States. Operated by United States Army veteran Ron Thelin and his younger brother Jay, it opened on January 3, 1966. Four months later Jeff Glick opened "Head Shop" on East Ninth Street in New York City.〔Smith, Howard. "Scenes". ''Village Voice'', June 23, 1966.〕 Also in 1966, The Birmingham Balloon Company opened at 113 Fry Street Denton, Tx.
Head shops served as an important outlet for underground newspapers and the underground comix of Robert Crumb and other counterculture cartoonists, which had little access to the established channels of newsstand distribution.〔Goodwin, Mike. "Youngsters of All Ages Free to Browse Among Hashish Pipes, Obscene Comic Books and Posters." ''Los Angeles Times,'' Apr. 9, 1972, pg. SF A1.〕 The shops' popularity eventually waned with the aging of that era's baby boomer generation, and with the retail mainstream discovering and co-opting aspects of that market niche, such as acid rock and eco-friendly products.
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