Jerome Baker

Jerome Baker 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.

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.

Jerome Baker made the world’s largest bong (“Bongzilla”) in 2018, finishing it over the 4/20 weekend. The piece, which was assembled at the Cannabition museum in downtown Las Vegas Arts District, looms 24-feet high and weighs 800 pounds.

The blow, which was not open to the public, happened in a studio rented by a group of renowned glass artists in South Lake Union April 19 to 22.

Harris, who designed the glass blowing program at the University of Oregon, called the environment while blowing the piece “an intense dance of blood, sweat, tears and laughter.”

To hit “Bongzilla”, reported American weekly magazine Newsweek, “someone will have to stand at the top of a staircase as a partner below lights the weed with a blowtorch and sends smoke curling through the massive pipe.” Harris called the bong “a giant metaphor.”

The bong was a classic design of a shaft and a bubble. The glassblowers added uranium to the glass to produce a bright green glow.

Baker was among the first glass artists to accept Bitcoin.

U.S. Marshals and undercover agents from several law enforcement agencies at state and federal levels raided in 2003 the central Oregon offices of Jerome Baker, called back then Jerome Baker Designs Inc. (or "JBD" for shorthand), during Operation Pipe Dreams. JBD at the time was among the largest glass-pipe manufacturers on the West Coast of the United States. Harris was arrested on charges of selling drug paraphernalia.

• 1998 High Times Cannabis Cup Glass Award
• 2002 High Times Cannabis Cup Glass Award
• 2018 High Times Cannabis Cup Glass Award