Toke is Cheap

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Toke is Cheap was a short-lived head shop on College Avenue in 1979-1980 owned and operated by Washington, D.C. paraphanalia dealers Geoff and Sheldon Lawrence, who operated vending stands on corners in downtown D.C., and who took over the space previously operated by Nature's Way. Plans to keep the Nature's Way name were dashed by unpaid phone bills and other utilities by the defunct purveyor of the customary head shop, forcing the brothers to use their nation's capital nom' de guerre.

The usual selection of smoking devices were offered along with rock garments, posters, and related material. Whacky "High Guy" greeting cards, drawn by a cartoonist from one of the national motorcycle magazines were also available. An example went "I'm sorry you're sick - - - but you're not supposed to drink the bong water!"

Toke is Cheap only lasted a year before the Lawrence brothers retrenched to Washington, where they operated vending stands at K Street and Connecticut Avenue, N.W., at 18th and M Streets, N.W., and on weekends at Wisconsin Avenue and Dumbarton Street, N.W. in Georgetown, D.C. They were eventually run off the street corners when the D.C. city council passed legislation restricting what could be sold on vending stands in 1982. The brothers would briefly operate a Toke is Cheap ("Relics of the '60s") store in Georgetown, D.C. at 1208 31st Street, N.W. from the summer of 1982 until November, 1982, situations not being helped by the older brother Geoff being incarcerated in Lorton prison in Northern Virginia for selling the combustibles as well as the devices.