How to Use head shop in a Sentence

head shop

noun
  • In the store, a group looks around what could pass for a posh hotel spa rather than a hippie-era head shop.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 27 Apr. 2018
  • It's now sold in head shops and gas stations, and there is no clear standard as to what passes for kratom.
    Nadia Kounang, CNN, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Eighteen months ago, the couple arranged to take over the lease of Charlotte’s Web, a longtime head shop.
    Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017
  • It's sold in specialty stores, head shops and gas stations, as well as online.
    Jackie Borchardt, Cincinnati.com, 12 Apr. 2019
  • States are enacting laws to ban the sale of fake urine, which retails for about $17 to $40 in head shops, truck stops and on the Internet, and is easy to purchase.
    Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Tinctures are one of the most popular ways to ingest CBD and are available at most head shops and online.
    Mary Schumacher, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The first head shop in this state at the forefront of counterculture and legal marijuana plans to close with the new year.
    USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Hollywood Hi is an old fashioned head shop a few doors down from Friendly Stranger.
    New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Today, even the crowds of young people who came for the head shops, T-shirt emporiums and glam-trashy-fashion boutiques have waned.
    Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Rich Murphy, who directs the program, learned about cannabis after working part-time at a Denver head shop in 2003.
    Christopher Carbone, Fox News, 28 June 2018
  • Myers says the store was the first head shop in Colorado when previous owner Jerry Weintraub opened it.
    USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
  • In 1970, the units were occupied by a doctor, a professional photographer and a struggling head shop, which had the lone hanging sign in the front of the store.
    Dennis Sullivan, Daily Southtown, 11 June 2018
  • Matt works at Mystic Arts World, a head shop, art gallery and community center owned by the Brotherhood.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • On California Avenue, there were head shops and herbal-medicine shops and an old-fashioned pharmacy with Clairol boxes and comic-book racks.
    David Leavitt, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Two bong-wielding bandits are accused of beating a store clerk bloody with the glass water pipe during a Vancouver head shop heist, authorities said.
    oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Austin’s druggy counterculture adopted the character as its mascot; a popular head shop was named Oat Willie’s.
    Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Ditching her secretarial job at the BBC to work in a head shop, Harry navigated the edges of new sensibilities.
    Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • American fans grow their own plants from seeds, which can be purchased along with the actual plant and extracts online or in head shops, according to the men's publication MEL magazine.
    Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 31 May 2018
  • These beverages by the Oki company are among the first wave of large-production, mainstream products that are taking CBD out of the neighborhood head shop, dispensary or hippie health food store and into mainstream commerce.
    The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 24 June 2019
  • The magazine quickly became an informational network not just for consumers but for paraphernalia manufacturers, distributors, and head shops, a guidebook to the lay of the land.
    Sean Howe, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2023

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