When speaking of smoking accessories in the past, you might have thought of the Victorian era smoking jacket or perhaps the modern day tobacco pipes. While it is true that you can go online, shop smoking accessories stores with ease, and then simply enter your credit card number to have the items you selected shipped to your home, there are other online venues where you will probably not want to give a credit card and most likely will refer the sender to a post office drop instead of your home address. Obviously, these kinds of stores are selling marijuana smoking accessories and other smoking accessories commonly associated with the consumption of controlled substances such as opium or crack cocaine, or several other herbs and plants the smoke of which may be inhaled.

These underground sites thrive on secrecy and while the illicit smoking accessories are advertised covertly with euphemisms and perhaps agreed upon words that only those in the know about a certain substance may understand, it is generally held that sellers of pot smoking accessories have been on the receiving end of governmental scrutiny for a long period of time now. Oftentimes masquerading as online distributors of pipe smoking accessories or even wholesale smoking accessories, these online stores have a virtual backroom where only a special password will permit you access. Similarly, the payment you make will be for legitimate smoking accessories – lighters, cigar stands, and other paraphernalia – while in reality you are perhaps purchasing a bong.

It is interesting to note that the sites which would be commonly associated with the sale of alternative smoke goods, such as the cool smoking accessories stores, are little more that virtual storefronts which are actually only selling bona fide cigarette smoking accessories. Yet even these stores have come under fire for selling smoking accessories to minors which is against the law. Perhaps it is the fact that attempting to stem the tide of cigarette and smoking accessories sales is like putting a finger into a collapsing dike that has put the sites dedicated to smokers + accessories at the forefront of the fight to lower the legal smoking age to 16, drive the legalization of pot, and loosen the ties on other controlled substances. Bloggers regularly cite smokers and accessories stores for their experiences and opinion and thus these locales are actually part and parcel of the driving force that is the current legalization movement.