For just a few bucks, Spokane residents can pop into many local convenience stores and purchase something that looks like a crack pipe — and that very well may quack like a crack pipe — but that retailers will swear is an oil burner or made for tobacco.

Spokane will ask downtown convenience stores to voluntarily remove single-serving alcoholic beverages from their stores and stop selling any alcohol after midnight, citing chronic littering, accompanying drug use and violent crime in the area.