The slow process of mainstreaming cannabis in the USA is an ongoing
source of fascination to me as a former, um, enthusiast. I’m aware of a
minor reefer civil war going on between bong-ripping hippies who feel
that as long-time champions of the green they’re the soul and
standard-bearers of pot-dom, versus hash oil vaping professional types
who, with some justification, see themselves as the mainstream face of
cannabis that’s going to help win the acceptance of legalization that’s
eluded the whites-with-dreads brigades, but whom the hippies see as
usurpers of weed culture.
But I’ll score the new-school a point on this one: pipe and bong
design has long been associated with juvenile eyesore bullshit for
addled heads who evidently can’t function without seeing ALL THE COLORS
AT ONCE. And while I’m glad such wares are keeping glass-blowers’ books
in the black (my soft spot for the independent artisan transcends my
perpetual irritation with both hippie culture and so-called
“upscale” dicks), the Aura Water Pipe is an overdue injection of
refinement into a marketplace that has long catered mostly to people who
think rainbow-hued glass skulls are like, the ultimate, bruh.
The reality is that to a great many pot users, pot isn’t the lynchpin of
an all-consuming, indentity-defining lifestyle of psychedelic art, jam
bands, and 420 culture, it’s just pot.
Aura is designed to provide a cleanable, durable, and user friendly
water pipe smoking experience in a form that moves beyond the adverse
reaction and stigma associated with traditional bongs. As progressive
attitudes toward marijuana use continue to grow in the United States and
abroad, water pipes have remained a reminder of the drug’s marginalized
and subversive past. A look into existing cannabis products reveals the
absence of a brand that connects with the mature, style conscious, and
forward thinking market that has emerged in the recent wave of
legalization in the United States. Designed to appeal to both existing
and new users, Aura evolves the water pipe into a contemporary object
that is comfortable in plain sight.
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