That’s some dank bud, bro.

Takealot remains one of, if not the, favourite South African online retailer. You’ll find a little something for everyone, and I guess that includes fans of the ‘erb, too.

Take for example this product – the 4-Piece 63mm Tobacco Spice Herb Hand-Cranked Grinder.

A ‘tobacco spice herb’ grinder, you say? Here’s what you’re looking at, for R295:

I believe I may have seen one of these before.

Product description, for a laugh:

• Great for Grinding Tobacco Spices, Herbs, etc. This Grinder saves your tons of time to grind the things you need!!!
• Made of high grade alloy material, offer you a powerful, heavy feel in your hands
• Excellent, smooth grinding and super sharp teeth, tight screen. . 18 teeth in top section. 24 teeth in bottom section.
• Rotary Spin Handle for fast Grinding
• Free Cleaning Utensil/Scraper included
• The perfect gift for your life!

The perfect gift for your life! Clearly written by someone who was as high as a kite.

An interesting aside is the “Customers who bought this product also bought” section.

So the person got high, wanted to make some biltong, was a little self-conscious about their nose hairs and calmed down with a cup of tea.

Got it.

Sadly, it seems the grinder has not delivered on its promises:

You have to really annoy stoners for them to go through the effort of logging a review.

Other goodies that might interest fans out there include a Build This Bong eBook:

The first book ever to feature detailed directions for bongs, pipes, hookahs, and more, Build This Bong brings both the classics and entirely original showstoppers to the home workshop. Projects of all sortsfrom a standard gravity bong to a rubber ducky hookah and a state of the art vaporizercome to life with Popular Mechanics-inspired illustrations and simple instructions. No fancy materials necessary: handyman Randy Stratton shows how to construct everything from common household goods. Build This Bong’s 40 inventive projectsmade from melons, coconuts, snow-globes, teapots, and moreare sure to be a big, mind-blowing hit.

Classic Randy.

Oh, also the Bong Bible eBook, penned by Dr Seymour Kindbud:

You’ll Get a Contact High Just Flipping Through the Pages! This celebration of all things bong related hits you with history, how-to, hip photos, and more!

…Take a deep hit on the bong history and trivia The Bong Bible delivers. Toke on the full-color photos of hip, crazy, and other unusual bongs. Read about the different types of bongs out there, from hookahs, waterfall bongs, gravity bongs, and more.

I can’t be the only one doubting Dr Kindbud’s credentials at this point. I feel he might be more of a Dr Dre style medical professional.

Still, Takealot has a long way to go before they called out like Amazon, as the Telegraph outlines:

Amazon has been accused of enabling the supply of illicit drugs to Britons after it emerged that the marketplace’s algorithms guide users to equipment necessary for packaging and selling substances, and promoted drug paraphernalia across its marketplace.

The online retail giant – which has made its founder Jeff Bezos the richest man alive – was found to group together digital scales for weighing substances no heavier than 200g and multipacks of 100x40mm plastic bags adorned with smiley faces – synonymous with drug taking.

Several tools associated with taking drugs appear on the website under seemingly innocuous descriptions. A number of brands of grinders adorned with the Marijuana plant symbol are described as herb and tea grinders. When searching for “espresso grinders” adverts for crushing tools with marijuana logos appear on the website.

In addition, a variety of devices used to consume cocaine appear on the website under the description “sniff bullets”, some with “extendable spoons”.

Just giving the people what they want, I guess.

Business is business.

[source:telegraph]