A head shop is a retail store that sells merchandise related to cannabis, cannabis culture, and other relevant countercultures. The headshop gets its name from the phrase, "Get your head right." Its a shop for your head, and that was very evident in the early headshops.

Not to be confused with smoke shops, which focus on tobacco products and paraphernalia, head shops carry cannabis tools, supplies, and accessories, including water pipes, bongs, one-hitters, rolling papers, glass pipes, rolling trays, grinders, vaporizers, stash cans, cones, blunts, clipper lighters, Raw products, Mascotte papers, Smoking papers, ashtrays, and many more .