A
head shop is a retail outlet specializing in paraphernalia used for consumption of
cannabis and
tobacco and items related to
cannabis culture and related
countercultures. Products may include magazines (e.g., about cannabis culture, cannabis cultivation, tattooing and music), clothing, and home décor (e.g., posters and wall hangings illustrating drug culture themes such as cannabis,
jam bands like
The Grateful Dead,
psychedelic art, etc.) Some head shops also sell oddities, such as antique
walking sticks and
sex toys. Since the 1980s, some head shops have sold clothing related to the
heavy metal or
punk subculture, such as band T-shirts and cloth patches with band logos, studded wristbands, bullet belts and leather boots. Head shops emerged from the hippie counterculture in the late 1960s, and many of them had close ties to the
anti-Vietnam War movement as well as groups in the marijuana legalization movement like LeMar, Amorphia, and the
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.