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REGION: Raided smoke shops back in business North County Times
Last December, dozens of protect and deputies raided 11 North County head shops and smoke shops, seizing thousands of smoking devices and citing the clerks who sold them for allegedly furnishing drug utensils.
At that time, law enforcement leaders and mayors from Vista, Escondido and San Marcos said the crackdown signaled the ambit's refusal to continue pretending that pipes and bongs, which are commonly used for smoking pot, were for legal tobacco use.
A year later, it's still flexible to buy a bong in North County, and many of the raided shops are operating much as they were.
Deputy District Attorney Damon Mosler, chief of narcotics prosecutions at the hour of the raids, acknowledged the operation was a limited success. He said they did remove some pipes and bongs from shelves and self-conscious at least one Vista shop to close. And shopkeepers who sell the devices know they do so at their peril, with raids and arrests realizable at any time.
But it remains unclear whether prosecutors can prove that selling pipes and bongs is a crime, or if raiding and citing shops that put across them is legal. A North County judge ruled that some search warrants filed in the operation failed to create that a crime was occurring at the shops. He ordered thousands of seized devices returned.
