Well, I'm sure some pipes-only shops are still like that; the two around here I can think of, one might have a couple of posters, but otherwise, isn't as cluttered as some old-school places I remember from way back when, and the other one ... is just too jam-packed with stuff to really "decorate". The picture shown is an outlet where you can actually buy weed/weed products as well as paraphenalia (but you're better off going to a headshop for gear, the weed stores' are waaaay overpriced. You're just not allowed to see the weed first. Shades of old-school Ontario liquor sales.)

Anyway, it's just a kind of ... cultural shift, or take-over if you will, a gentrification of the marijua .... cannabis industry. The government kind of underestimated how "normalized" it already was amongst the middle class riff-raff.

It's just kind of another sign of how out of touch "the elite" actually are with normal people. Kind of like old-school TV executives thinking that normal people would be offended by the sight of pregnant women - in the middle of the Baby Boom, when being pregnant was the style.