Marijuana Report: Florida Hunts Head Shops

​While the rest of the country -- or at least California, Colorado, and a few others -- virtually legalizes pot, Florida is going retro.

Bills making their way through the Florida House and Senate would impose a 25 percent tax on pipes with carburetors. Worse, it argues that these pipes couldn't be sold unless 75 percent of a shop's sales were tobacco.

OK, I'll acknowledge that a pipe with that kind of opening is used primarily for rolling. And I'll agree that Florida badly needs money. But this ain't gonna earn more tax revenue, and it will restrict business. In a state where painkillers like Oxycontin are virtually unrestricted, the boys in Tally have picked the wrong target.

But this bill has already been approved by at least one committee in the House. And the Palm Beach Post notes that at least one legislator, Chris Dorworth, a Republican from Lake Mary, doesn't even know what these pipes are.

It has also drawn the ire of smoke shop owners, who have gathered hundreds of signatures to oppose it.

"The state and the feds are attacking this war on drugs ass backwards," writes one.