WHITMAN - Police hand-delivered to the town’s eight convenience stores this week a warning from Police Chief Edward Slocum: Stop selling the wrappers used for making a type of cigar called blunts or face prosecution for peddling drug paraphernalia.
‘‘Blunt wrappers are used exclusively for the purpose of smoking a combination of marijuana ... and cigar tobacco,’’ Slocum wrote.
‘‘You also sell cigarette rolling papers, while not illegal, certainly can be noted as used almost exclusively for smoking marijuana,’’ his letter said.
Blunts are wider than a cigarillo but not as thick as a standard cigar. The front end of it is flat, not tapered. The wrapper is paper made from tobacco pulp.
Whitman police Detective Stephen Drass said the town is joining other local communities - including Pembroke and Hanover - in taking a harder line against the wrappers and papers. The concern, he explained, is that minors are buying and using cigar blunt wrappers and rolling papers to smoke marijuana.
Some of the stores where blunt cigar wrappers and rolling papers are sold do not sell cigar or cigarette tobacco, Drass said.
‘‘Why sell the papers if you don’t sell the product to go along with them?’’ he said.
In the letter, Slocum said the Whitman Police Department provides extensive drug and alcohol education for the community and has trained youth in drug and alcohol awareness for more than a decade.
‘‘Your sale of the products that are used to smoke marijuana goes against our efforts to keep the youth and adults in our community away from drug abuse,’’ Slocum wrote.
" Blunts are wider than a cigarillo but not as thick as a standard cigar." This whole idea of banning the rolling papers is silly. Whats next banning root beer mugs?
Posted by: KJack815
This isn't going to stop the kids from smoking, but these convenience stores don't need to contribute to local drug problems.
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