Freedom of Speech works best when paired with the intelligence to use it.
This is not a free speech issue. If it was, you would be arrested for talking about cannabis - but you're not.
This is about running a business and existing in a community when you sell shit that is obviously for illegal use. If you own one of these businesses, you hope your customers will be smart enough to know when to keep their fucking mouth's shut. If they don't (OP), they endanger your livelihood.
Don't be a dumbass. Play the game when in the head shop and then take your protest to city hall.
Freedom of Speech might work best when paired with intelligence but it is afforded too all in the US dumb and smart as a Constitutional Right. Someone Dumb might not know all their rights so naturally they can be taken advantage of or convinced they don't have a right when they do. I see it all day, posted on Facebook, cops bullying people out of their rights.
You say its not a freedom of speech issue if it was we'd be locked up. We don't get locked up in the US for exercising our Constitutional Rights. Not legally anyway..
You are right about the way they have to run their business to stay open but its because some dumbass in government other than the shop owner said it has to be that way or we'll shut you down. Which is what my post is about.
And if you lived in the US, you would know you don't take Constitutional Rights issues to city hall.
Or maybe you do and don't know your rights.
Thank you for your opinion.
I think it might have been a little the "Don't be a dumbass." ... And a lot the steroids I just started taking today for an upper respiratory infection. Steroids got me feeling like the hulk with PMS..