Head shops come out of the shadows as weed becomes legal in Illinois
by Abdel Jimenez, Chicago Tribune
Dec 13, 2019
3 minutes
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 went away. The industry has been evolving quietly for decades as new forms of smoking - like vaping - became popular and women increasingly patronized the shops, experts say.
But with recreational marijuana sales set to begin Jan. 1 in Illinois, local head
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