# What drug is this a pipe for? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 18, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439 "2019-09-18T16:31:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/1 "2019-09-18T16:31:03Z")
The glass pipe is about 5" long, with a globe about an inch in diameter. The globe has a carburetor. The only thing I know for sure is that it’s not for weed. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/2 "2019-09-18T16:32:14Z")
Meth ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/3 "2019-09-18T16:45:57Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Meth No, no. My mom had one and she said it vaporized ice to make her pain go away. So it’s like a tech savvy way of getting all the anti-inflammmatory benefits of icing, without all the uncomfortable freezing cold and numbing. Then she told me to stay at a friends house and i didnt see my mom again for a month. But i digress, all that aint got shit to do with her pain. She has migraines. Only ice helps. Vaporized ice. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/4 "2019-09-18T16:47:02Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > No, no. My mom had one and she said it vaporized ice to make her pain go away. So it’s like a tech savvy way of getting all the anti-inflammmatory benefits of icing, without all the uncomfortable freezing cold and numbing. Then she told me to stay at a friends house and i didnt see my mom again for a month. But i digress, all that aint got shit to do with her pain. She has migraines. Only ice helps. Vaporized ice. Holy crap, I’ve got a fortune in my freezer! ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/5 "2019-09-18T16:57:35Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > The glass pipe is about 5" long, with a globe about an inch in diameter. The globe has a carburetor. The only thing I know for sure is that it’s not for weed. It’s for weed ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/6 "2019-09-18T17:07:49Z")
Probably for meth. Could be for crack cocaine, if anybody is still doing that. Or it could be used for cannabis concentrates like oil or what is referred to as dabs. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/7 "2019-09-18T17:20:44Z")
That’s called an oil pipe. It’s a utensil for smoking anything that you want to vaporize instead of burn. That could be (obviously) an oil like cannabis oil or wax, or a solid like methamphetamine, freebase cocaine or heroin, DMT, etc. I think right now it’s most popularly used for meth, but it doesn’t have to be meth. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/8 "2019-09-18T17:33:48Z")
[https://photos.app.goo.gl/SiBHH2fB8ghvGWcz5](https://photos.app.goo.gl/SiBHH2fB8ghvGWcz5) Did it look like this pipe in this photo? If so **not** for weed. It’s called a bubbler and its used for meth. Yeah it may have some technically possible other uses that allow it to be legally sold but its a meth pipe. Period. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/9 "2019-09-18T17:36:51Z")
Hey, that’s a flower gift for your loved one. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/10 "2019-09-18T17:41:32Z")
It’s for methamphetamine. Ignore any label that reads, “for use with tobacco only”. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/11 "2019-09-18T17:43:48Z")
It _could_ also be a crack pipe. But more likely meth. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/12 "2019-09-18T17:45:58Z")
Crack? How quaint. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/13 "2019-09-18T17:59:04Z")
Hardly anyone smokes opium anymore these days . . . ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/14 "2019-09-18T18:01:35Z")
It could be an artifact from [the Watchmen universe](https://images.app.goo.gl/7KNqWkcwhLkDSnQZA). ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/15 "2019-09-18T18:11:44Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Hey, that’s a flower gift for your loved one. 😉 And they happen to be called Love Roses FYI. You’ll see them at the counter of gas station/convenience stores - and not just necessarily in inner cities like the article says. I saw them in a Greenwich CT Exxon. > **[Drug pipe](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_rose)** > > Drug pipes are vessels used as drug paraphernalia to aid the smoking of hard drugs. They usually consist of a glass tube with or without a bulb, the latter particularly used when freebasing methamphetamine or crack cocaine. > A pizzo – also known as an pilo, oil burner, bubble, tweak pipe, meth pipe, gack pipe, crank pipe, crack pipe, pookie pipe, chicken bone, or ice pipe – AKA “Billy” – is a glass pipe which consists of a tube connected to a spherical bulb with a small opening on top designed fo... ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/16 "2019-09-18T18:50:41Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Hardly anyone smokes opium anymore these days . . . I’ll be in the den. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/17 "2019-09-18T19:14:25Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’ll be in the den. You do that. Just watch out for the high thebaine strains of poppies; that stuff really harshes the buzz of the morphine and codeine. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/18 "2019-09-18T20:13:38Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > It _could_ also be a crack pipe. But more likely meth. That would probably only be used for crack if it happened to be the only available option. Crack smokers tend not to have a lot of patience once there are rocks burning a hole in their pocket. Given the fact that you can buy both crack stems and bubbler pipes legally at gas stations (often both in the same store), it just wouldn’t make sense for a meth smoker to _seek out_ anything but a bubbler pipe, or a crack smoker to _seek out_ anything other than a stem. But I dont see a reason why a half-way decently experienced crack smoker couldnt make it work in a bubbler. Just have to use it slightly different due to crack melting at a much lower temp than meth. (No, I’m not a drug user, ive just lived in Flint all my life). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-drug-is-this-a-pipe-for/840439/19 "2019-09-18T20:21:09Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > [https://photos.app.goo.gl/SiBHH2fB8ghvGWcz5](https://photos.app.goo.gl/SiBHH2fB8ghvGWcz5) > > Did it look like this pipe in this photo? If so **not** for weed. It’s called a bubbler and its used for meth. Yeah it may have some technically possible other uses that allow it to be legally sold but its a meth pipe. Period. Yeah, that’s it.