A crack stem is a glass tube that is used to smoke crack cocaine also known as freebase cocaine.
The glass tube stem in New York city is sold in "bodegas" or "corner stores". It is illegal to sell a stem with a metal filter in these stores but many sell them anyway. However a loophole in the law allows these stores to sell glass pens which when the ink is removed becomes a "rosebud" or glass tube (stem), with a plastic flower inside the tube. Although there is only one reason why they are sold (to smoke crack) there is no law being broken by selling a stem in this way. If a person is caught by the police with a glass tube that has no metal filter and no "crack cocaine" residue in the stem, that person cannot be arrested or fined for having illegal drug paraphernalia on their person.
|
