Head shops, once a business catering to the hippie counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, are getting a second life. The shops, which sell bongs, pipes and other smoking paraphernalia, never really ...

It's hard to remember now, but back in 2014, the best place for anyone in Portland to pick up a good piece of smokable glass was the old neighborhood head shop. Not so long ago, the city was full of ...

Perhaps you’re in need of a flux plasma waterpipe. No? Then how about grinders, hand pipes, ashtray magnifying jars or LED trays? First place winner Area 51 Smoke Shop originally opened in 2014 with ...

Anyone who’s ever been to a head shop knows that you have to watch your language. You don’t ask about “bongs,” but “water pipes.” You don’t ask for “something to clean out my system for a drug test,” ...

For more than 50 years, the primary—indeed, only—architectural, public acknowledgment of cannabis in the United States has been the ubiquitous head shop. Emerging from 1960s counterculture and ...

Matt Saville is the co-owner of Botany Bay, 420 New Circle Road. His stepmother, co-owner Ginny Saville, was one of the original head shop owners in Lexington. Charles Bertram ...

The medical marijuana business is already raking in billions in California. Now some dispensaries hope to cash in even more by going upscale. Forget hippie head shops; these are high-end boutiques -- ...