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- Jerome Baker Designs is a Las Vegas, Nevada based company in the cannabis industry formerly known as Jerome Baker Designs, and for having created the largest bong ever created at 24-feet high and 800 pounds. The bong was so large it had to be created in parts and assembled at the Cannabition, where it was put on display at “Bongzilla,” the gallery opening of Jerome Baker Designs’ Las Vegas Studio during which “The Mega Bong Series" was unveiled. Baker started his career in glassblowing in 1991 by apprenticing with Bob Snodgrass. Since then, he has created blown glass artwork for celebrities, rock stars and sports figures. In 2003, the company's founder, Jason Harris, who is considered by Leafly one of the top 11 glass artists who changed the cannabis glass art game, was arrested by federal law-enforcement officers in a sting operation called Operation Pipe Dreams for making and distributing paraphernalia. was also arrested in the operation. Harris did not serve time, though his assets were seized. Jerome Baker Designs had been a leading cannabis glass company throughout the 1990s and early 2000s prior to the arrest. The company was founded by Jason Harris, who started his career in glassblowing in 1991 by apprenticing with Bob Snodgrass. Since then, Harris has created blown glass artwork for celebrities, rock stars and sports figures, including celebrity rapper Snoop Dogg, for whom Jerome Baker teamed up with Nastee Glass to produce a $18,000 nug jug capable of holding one pound of cannabis flower. Harris is featured in Degenerate Art, a 2011 documentary by American pipe maker Aaron Golbert on the art and culture associated with glass pipes used for smoking cannabis. (en)
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