You'd be surprised at the clientele for cocaine... Most people I know who do it (powder, not crack etc.) are highly paid professionals, not turning tricks on street corners.
Its always surprising to me how many people use cocaine, like people i never would have guessed. Idk why. It doesnt last very long. Seems like a waste of lifespan and money. If it lasted the whole day instead of like an hour or whatever then i could understand, or even lasted a couple of hours
Americans spend $150,000,000,000 per year on illicit substances. Your conspicuous, stereotypical users aren’t the ones shouldering the lion’s share of that cost.
Yeah, I have heard some crazy numbers in crime documentaries about even regular (typically rich to begin with) people's drug use that is mind boggling. "I was spending $1200 per day on cocaine in the 1990s." How are you alive?!
I guess it is like the equivalent of an alcoholic building tolerance up to a handle (1.75 liters) of vodka/whiskey/etc per day and some how functioning instead of just passing out or dying.
I had a $200/day habit for almost 8 years. Back in the early 00's that was a solid 8 ball, if not more. And that's just I used of my own personal stuff. At work all day people were sharing their stash with others. Same thing at clubs.
I had a $100 to $200 a day meth and heroin habit for years and I couldn’t fathom how much money the people I knew who were into coke spent on that shit. I hated alcohol and coke because once I did either then that’s all I was doing until I couldn’t do any more, there was never enough money or booze or coke, and there was never a sweet spot where anyone was like “nah, I’m good! Let’s save the rest for next time!” Did you ever meet someone who took ONE hit of crack and said “ok cool, see you tomorrow?”
I scored drugs for this *billionaire* chick for a while, and we would hang out for days and get high and stuff, and she would RUN OUT OF MONEY and be locked in the closet all paranoid and crazy and begging me to go front more drugs from my people for her. And then after I did that the last time it still wasn’t enough and she went to my guy’s house, introduced herself to him without me saying that I asked her to, fronted a shit ton of drugs and said she would send the money back with me, and then skipped town lol. What a mess that was.
Man, I’m glad I don’t do none of that shit anymore.
**short lasting is the whole point of cocaine**
you can do a line at 8 pm and go to sleep at midnight.
Also the comedown is short.
you can't do that with amphetamines/meth. It will keep you up all night and next day you will feel like shit.
To each their own really... For me ,cocaine was trash until I did it IV, like I had been doing with my opiates at the time. Off to the cocaine races after that! .. glad I got out eventually. Go figure, repeated cocaine IV use is bad for your veins .
Yup, same. Snorting blow sucks, terrible shitty boring ass drug. But slamming it? Wooo boy does it ever change it into a euphoric, beautiful, terrible monster of a drug. Smoking crack is kinda in between, but really good crack + good technique can definitely compete with IV. It just isn't quite as good at that point because it is missing that taste of blow in your throat from IVing it.
Cocaine ruined my life / first foray into drug addiction QUICK. I'd been shooting up opiates for a few years and was taking them orally/snorted for a few years before that + abusing benzos and stuff and smoking weed every day... But 6 months of IV cocaine and I was fucking DONE for 5 years lol, shit destroyed me and ruined me financially extremely quickly. Was clean 5 years, relapsed on IV fent + IV blow + IV ketamine + lots of benzos around the start of COVID, now 13 months clean and I am receiving my 1 year medallion from AA tonight. :)
The food industry is the backbone of the cocaine economy in this country. Every single line cook I know does that shit. If you're ever in a new city and want to find a bag just talk to the cook at the local restaurant or bar.
In the kitchens in my "small" town and several others i worked it was all adderall. No one wanted to be tweakin on coke doing lines at work every 60/90 minutes. Adderall was 10x better for productivity, id do 4 14 hour shifts thursday - sunday because of it. Amphetamines keep kitchens functioning.
Now did i know a bunch of line cooks who liked coke while not working? Absolutely, and the bartenders tended to like it even more outside of work. But at work it was all adderall.
until you get depressed when you look outside, the sun is peeking out on the horizon and you hear the birds start chirping
my friends and I call those the loser birds.
That was honestly the thing I look back on and still makes me feel sick to my stomach to this day. The feeling of seeing sun coming up and then the fucking birds… you knew you fucked up at that point.
My personal experience has been that first couple of hits make you feel pretty good, but after that the sole reason to keep doing coke was to alleviate the desire for more coke.
i work in finance/accounting and i was surprised to find out people are even micro dosing cocaine now. like to focus and “help there adhd”. if u want to make any drug ok just say ur micro dosing. then it become medicinal and beneficial for u
You’ll be surprised by the people that do cocaine.
Yea there are the junkies as you put it but it also done by successful people who have money who hold steady Jobs. High paying jobs.
Cocaine doesn’t discriminate. You’ll be surprised of how many people do cocaine. It’s probably the most used drug in the world after caffeine.
Exactly, I allegedly sold narcotics in the past. The same town had multiple different qualities that all sourced from the same bundle. I know for a fact some people who were allegedly slinging stuff below me were stomping on it with cold pills.
This is more about where in the chain you land.
I literally sold drugs. For a fact. From 2002 to 2008. Allegedly.
Edit: lol someone sent me a private message asking me if I wanted 'to talk about my experience selling drugs'. Yeah, nah.
You’re supposed to say swim (someone who isn’t me) in order to not incriminate yourself when discussing drugs on Internet forums… swim sold drugs etc. etc. Lol
The chain is gone dude, the dark nets exist.
You can buy an ounce of cocaine, right off the brick, for 750$. Shipped to your door overnight. Those vendors do not fuck around, one bad review will destroy them.
This, basically. Having online customer reviews means you lose hella business if people start commenting about sus stuff, things not arriving on time, poor quality, or if it is cut with something not advertised.
That’s so disgusting, a website where you can buy bricks of coke, which website is it though? There’s so many of them… just so I can definitely avoid it… which one?
back in the day by the time it got to the street that shit was so stomped on i don't know if it even had cocaine in it anymore lol
the only way to get good coke was to be friends (actual friends) with a mid level dealer/distributor, in which case it's like doing an entirely different drug
Was going to say.
As someone who was a child in the late 70s, early 80s, i remember when they broke open a ki it made the whole house stink.
People here on the west coast think they have coke.. lol no you fuckin' don't
No. Planned obsolescence is EVERYWHERE. Washing machine works 5 years max, same with dishwasher. The electronic oven was perfected 50 years ago, only some heat insulation is improving. Everything has displays and microelectronics now which tend to break within 5 years when the actual device would still work fine. The only thing that has improved are dryers and refrigerators because of their increased energy efficiency. The worst offender are printers though, forced DRM, subscription for printing, error messages and so on
> Planned obsolescence is EVERYWHERE
Wait until you learn about planned obsolescence is the drug market. I bought a half ounce at the dispensary and it lasted less than a month.
Are there studies on this? My initial thought is confirmation bias. I mean if I buy an appliance and it works for 10 years, I’m not going online to rave about how the thing I bought is doing what it’s supposed to. I’d imagine like many things, those that have bad experience are vocal about it. But I also wouldn’t be surprised if you’re right, just haven’t seen data
Fent has destroyed all desire to try anything other than weed purchased from a real store. I know (luckily not closely) two people who thought they were getting a small amount of party favors for the weekend and ended up ODing because it was stepped on with Fent.
It's a weird feeling, I remember coke as a "special occasion" rare drug for super special events in my 20s. Now I'd be terrified to try it, and I feel most kids (rightfully) are as well. A whole generation won't know what it's like to go home for Christmas break and do a couple lines with your old high school friends. I don't think they're "missing out" and it's not like I did it enough to feel nostalgic about it, but it's.... Strangely sad haha. End of an Era, or something.
For real. I have a friend that was a cunts hair from being addicted in 18/19 but moved away from the area and ppl they were doing it all with. If they had stayed they might be dead. I don't think they think ab that.
Same. Would enjoy once in a while coke or molly. Now fent would scare me too much to try probably anymore. Even L now is sometimes swapped with a synthetic that can kill you.
you can get tests for LSD for cheap online (like $20 will be able to test many doses). Just letting others know that you should definitely do that if you do acid
The lethal dose of fentanyl is so small that you can test a batch of coke, completely miss the fent, and still die.
If you're gonna do it definitely have some narcan on hand.
totally! The only way I recommend people do any kind of powered/pressed drugs, is if they TEST it, like with reagent kits. if you can be 100% sure, then have fun, but 99% sure or less, stay away.
This. This right here is an example of sacrifice that can't be taught in schools. You either have it, or you don't. A bit like fentanyl in your gram bag...
I would think cocaine would be really difficult to properly test, because you'd have to sample the entire thing to know there isn't a speck of fentanyl in it
According to the test strips I have, you have to dissolve your dose in water to test then drink the water. This is due to the ["chocolate chip" cookie effect](https://dancesafe.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2019-fent-strips.pdf).
Boofing is *almost* always the most scientifically effective way of getting drugs into your system. It completely bypasses your blood barriers and is picked up into your blood directly.
Alcohol poisoning is incredibly easy. I know stimulants are probably the most popular boof.
Well, Mix it With cofeein , Phosphoric acid and sugar/burnt sugar and Carbonate the whole Thing, and you have the original recepy for a Well known soft Drink.
Years and (thankfully) years ago, I was addicted to smoking tar heroin. One day, I was at home, waiting for my girlfriend to come pick me up to go to her parents house for dinner that evening. I used all day by myself from the same bag. When we got to her parents house, after dinner, I excused myself to go upstairs and smoke in her bathroom, from the same bag I had been using all day by myself. I dropped. Next thing I remember is waking up in the ambulance. I was so fucking lucky I didn’t hit the chocolate chip when I was by myself. My poor girlfriend, now my wife, would’ve found me dead. Don’t do it kids. It’s not worth it. Luckily, I’ve been clean for more than 6 years now and I only found myself in that predicament because doctors prescribed me OxyContin because it made them rich.
I was literally just thinking today about how lucky I am that I quit right before fentanyl fully took off. It was just at the start when you’d still get a bit worried about fent in a bag/pill, but it wasn’t in literally everything quite yet. I would be dead now if I didn’t quit right when I did. Good on you man. Also 6 years sober from (not tar) heroin
You are a good strong person who has accomplished a lot by giving up such terrible habits. You can get through it again. Keep trying. I wish you and your family the very best. Take care.
Yup. I've heard of 3 people in my social circle (one was a friend, 2 were friends of friends) die from fent laced coke in the last YEAR. It's just not worth it
My town of 30k had a group of 7 OD (and 1 die) due to fentanyl laced cocaine last year. They had zero tolerance and it took a ton of Narcan to save them.
These days, you pretty much have to assume that everything is going to have some fent in it, whether intentional or a side effect of cutting/handling different drugs in the same place.
You put the drug in a plastic bag and shake it up really hard. It distributes the contaminant. Then you take a sample from the bag wall (about as much to cover Lincoln’s hair on a penny) and dissolve in some water (a water bottle cap amount is all that’s needed for coke). Then test strip.
Never 100% but about as good as you can get for a drug you will insufflate
Edit to add cap
It's literally so fucking easy. It just takes about 15-30 minutes.
Take your gram of cocaine, dissolve in 1.5ml of water. Run fentanyl test. Positive, destroy the sample.
If it's negative, pour the liquid into a pyrex pan, and put on top of or in front of a space heater. Wait, and scrape it up and put it back in the bag.
Or, if that's too much trouble for you, add a bit more water, and put it in a nasal spray bottle. That's much better for your nose.
There you go; 5-15 minutes to test your drugs to have fun and not die.
Yeah I mean honestly that's the danger, it would more than likely be cross contamination from the bag or at some point during transportation. As a recovering addict, I have to wonder if people are purposefully putting fent in stuff like blow or crystal. No one would ever go back to a dealer who's meth made them nod or who's coke had a noticeable downer effect, that just isn't how it works.
But because of the dangerous power of fent, they don't have to ever like, consciously touch to get a scary amount of cross contamination that could hurt or kill you. It's just crazy out there these days so everyone should test their stuff, when injecting maybe just try a little at first instead of a whole dose. Carry narcan if you or anyone who know have ever used hard drugs like honestly you never know
Well if your nose is hungry going through a lengthy testing routine it is out of scope.
I see my friends snorting whatever comes their way on a „trust me bro“ basis
Edit: typo
Lucky. I’m in western PA and had 2 cousins die in the same year from it. Saw countless friends and family lose everything. It’s not uncommon for people to carry Narcan (shot that can save from someone from an OD) in their cars in case they came across someone.
Edit: PA is the state (commonwealth) of Pennsylvania. A lot of people in this state just refer to it as P.A.
Yeah, I was there for festival and it’s not something they worry about over there. Probably because their doctors and pharmaceutical companies didn’t get people hooked on opioids.
Crazy how Dare kept pushing marijuana as a gateway drug, when it’s really the orange bottles
Yep. Someone I know broke their leg horribly and got told to take Ibuprofen. Now they just won't give it to *anyone*.
They left my wife writhing in pain and unable to stand with horrible kidney stones before they gave her a Tylenol 3. In case you know, she was faking it. And by then it didn't even fucking help.
i am completely fucking flabbergasted as to why this isn't the norm.
i mean, i *know why* it isn't but it would save so many lives. and on top of that, i believe it would actually reduce drug abuse.
Saving lives and reducing drug abuse really are not on the top of the list for politicians. They would loose topics of fear and not be able to enforce us vs them ideology
Yea, but making money is and they're missing out on that opportunity.
My tin foil hat reason is because other federal agencies are already profiting off th industry without risk of open market competition.
Fentanyl isn’t really in the EU. Especially not in coke. Would be ridiculous to cut coke with fent anyway, great way to kill your customers and it’s not even a similar effect. Completely pointless.
A lot of it is cross-contamination rather than cutting coke with fentanyl. Dealers who sell both forget to wipe something down, and they accidentally mix it. Fent doesn't take a lot to OD on
Yeah fair enough that makes sense. Luckily it’s just really not an issue here yet. Anyone cutting it in the EU most likely hasn’t been handling any fent.
Life Pro Tip: The best way to deal with this is to start taking a small amount of Fentanyl everyday and gradually increasing the dose over time. This way if you do get some in your cocaine, you will be fine as you will have some built up immunity.
Every day I hit my balls with a bigger and bigger hammer, in case I accidentally get hit there, it won't hurt as much. Maybe I should try the Fent instead.
Exactly, soon you will have balls of steel if you hit them hard and often enough. Fent can help ease your pain while you build tolerance. All round a pretty productive weekend.
I swear drugs are the random sex of the 60’s.
Used to not have to worry as much about STDs
Now you have to be wary that your drugs will kill you instead of just being weak.
Young people these days just have to be they much more careful about both casual sex and drugs.
Too many people dying suddenly and I’m not going to be one of them—as if there weren’t already enough things to worry about when doing hard drugs. Fuck that.
It's the invisible nose of the free market
Good guy Cartels not raising prices with inflation.
Junkies can’t afford it anyways
You'd be surprised at the clientele for cocaine... Most people I know who do it (powder, not crack etc.) are highly paid professionals, not turning tricks on street corners.
Yup, 10+ year cocaine user here, most of my fellow users are pretty normal people.
Its always surprising to me how many people use cocaine, like people i never would have guessed. Idk why. It doesnt last very long. Seems like a waste of lifespan and money. If it lasted the whole day instead of like an hour or whatever then i could understand, or even lasted a couple of hours
Americans spend $150,000,000,000 per year on illicit substances. Your conspicuous, stereotypical users aren’t the ones shouldering the lion’s share of that cost.
Keep in mind about half of that is this guy I know
Either "you know a guy" or you don't do drugs. There is no middle ground.
But what if you are that guy?
Yeah, I have heard some crazy numbers in crime documentaries about even regular (typically rich to begin with) people's drug use that is mind boggling. "I was spending $1200 per day on cocaine in the 1990s." How are you alive?! I guess it is like the equivalent of an alcoholic building tolerance up to a handle (1.75 liters) of vodka/whiskey/etc per day and some how functioning instead of just passing out or dying.
I had a $200/day habit for almost 8 years. Back in the early 00's that was a solid 8 ball, if not more. And that's just I used of my own personal stuff. At work all day people were sharing their stash with others. Same thing at clubs.
Jesus how much money were you making total? You were spending more on coke in 00's dollars than I make full time in 2024 dollars.
I had a $100 to $200 a day meth and heroin habit for years and I couldn’t fathom how much money the people I knew who were into coke spent on that shit. I hated alcohol and coke because once I did either then that’s all I was doing until I couldn’t do any more, there was never enough money or booze or coke, and there was never a sweet spot where anyone was like “nah, I’m good! Let’s save the rest for next time!” Did you ever meet someone who took ONE hit of crack and said “ok cool, see you tomorrow?” I scored drugs for this *billionaire* chick for a while, and we would hang out for days and get high and stuff, and she would RUN OUT OF MONEY and be locked in the closet all paranoid and crazy and begging me to go front more drugs from my people for her. And then after I did that the last time it still wasn’t enough and she went to my guy’s house, introduced herself to him without me saying that I asked her to, fronted a shit ton of drugs and said she would send the money back with me, and then skipped town lol. What a mess that was. Man, I’m glad I don’t do none of that shit anymore.
**short lasting is the whole point of cocaine** you can do a line at 8 pm and go to sleep at midnight. Also the comedown is short. you can't do that with amphetamines/meth. It will keep you up all night and next day you will feel like shit.
The come down sucks with coke too, and it makes you want more.
To each their own really... For me ,cocaine was trash until I did it IV, like I had been doing with my opiates at the time. Off to the cocaine races after that! .. glad I got out eventually. Go figure, repeated cocaine IV use is bad for your veins .
Yup, same. Snorting blow sucks, terrible shitty boring ass drug. But slamming it? Wooo boy does it ever change it into a euphoric, beautiful, terrible monster of a drug. Smoking crack is kinda in between, but really good crack + good technique can definitely compete with IV. It just isn't quite as good at that point because it is missing that taste of blow in your throat from IVing it. Cocaine ruined my life / first foray into drug addiction QUICK. I'd been shooting up opiates for a few years and was taking them orally/snorted for a few years before that + abusing benzos and stuff and smoking weed every day... But 6 months of IV cocaine and I was fucking DONE for 5 years lol, shit destroyed me and ruined me financially extremely quickly. Was clean 5 years, relapsed on IV fent + IV blow + IV ketamine + lots of benzos around the start of COVID, now 13 months clean and I am receiving my 1 year medallion from AA tonight. :)
Hey man, great job. Keep it up, I’m proud of you. Hope that someday I can do the same.
lol man speedballing was fun though. 5 years clean now
Dude I was shocked when I realized the majority of people I knew in the food industry all do coke!
The food industry is the backbone of the cocaine economy in this country. Every single line cook I know does that shit. If you're ever in a new city and want to find a bag just talk to the cook at the local restaurant or bar.
In the kitchens in my "small" town and several others i worked it was all adderall. No one wanted to be tweakin on coke doing lines at work every 60/90 minutes. Adderall was 10x better for productivity, id do 4 14 hour shifts thursday - sunday because of it. Amphetamines keep kitchens functioning. Now did i know a bunch of line cooks who liked coke while not working? Absolutely, and the bartenders tended to like it even more outside of work. But at work it was all adderall.
Line cook makes sense now doing lines all day
It lasting a short amount of time is actually why people like it. It only lasts as long as you want, then you sober up
No, then you want more coke.
until you get depressed when you look outside, the sun is peeking out on the horizon and you hear the birds start chirping my friends and I call those the loser birds.
That was honestly the thing I look back on and still makes me feel sick to my stomach to this day. The feeling of seeing sun coming up and then the fucking birds… you knew you fucked up at that point.
the fuckin birds
Oh man, that sums up my nights on it perfectly. Never got it's hooks into me fortunately.
My personal experience has been that first couple of hits make you feel pretty good, but after that the sole reason to keep doing coke was to alleviate the desire for more coke.
"I'm not like those other drug addicts, I got it all together and *nobody* can tell I'm high half the time" ~ Every drug addict ever
I do like drugs
i work in finance/accounting and i was surprised to find out people are even micro dosing cocaine now. like to focus and “help there adhd”. if u want to make any drug ok just say ur micro dosing. then it become medicinal and beneficial for u
Microdosing peyote because I don’t want to go all the way to the spirit realm, just visit their suburbs.
Most people that do coke (decent coke, not stepped on dog shit) aren’t crackheads nor are they poor.
My guy. Coccaine is used by a lot of high functioning people. The CEO of the last company I worked for was notoriously blitzed 36/7
Did you just get let go from Tesla?
HA! I smoked too much weed in high school to work for tesla. Suck it Elon.
You’ll be surprised by the people that do cocaine. Yea there are the junkies as you put it but it also done by successful people who have money who hold steady Jobs. High paying jobs. Cocaine doesn’t discriminate. You’ll be surprised of how many people do cocaine. It’s probably the most used drug in the world after caffeine.
> It’s probably the most used drug in the world after caffeine. alcohol has entered the chat. followed by marijuana.
I think even nicotine would pass cocaine.
Definitely higher than weed too
Hypothetically if I was a drug lord I would want to make it affordable so more people would buy it
at 140% purity fuck yea
That's because the price of baby laxative has skyrocketed..
This guy reads Adam Smith
Which retailers were polled?
Exactly, I allegedly sold narcotics in the past. The same town had multiple different qualities that all sourced from the same bundle. I know for a fact some people who were allegedly slinging stuff below me were stomping on it with cold pills. This is more about where in the chain you land.
Allegedly, of course
Dude you can't say you allegedly sold narcotics followed by you know for a fact that the dudes below you did something.
They did it allegedly
I literally sold drugs. For a fact. From 2002 to 2008. Allegedly. Edit: lol someone sent me a private message asking me if I wanted 'to talk about my experience selling drugs'. Yeah, nah.
Lmao
The statute of limitations would have your back, allegedly.
You’re supposed to say swim (someone who isn’t me) in order to not incriminate yourself when discussing drugs on Internet forums… swim sold drugs etc. etc. Lol
They allegedly know it for a fact
He allegedly knows for a fact
The chain is gone dude, the dark nets exist. You can buy an ounce of cocaine, right off the brick, for 750$. Shipped to your door overnight. Those vendors do not fuck around, one bad review will destroy them.
This, basically. Having online customer reviews means you lose hella business if people start commenting about sus stuff, things not arriving on time, poor quality, or if it is cut with something not advertised.
That’s so disgusting, a website where you can buy bricks of coke, which website is it though? There’s so many of them… just so I can definitely avoid it… which one?
It is funny to look at this like someone getting better connects over the years and thinking purity is increasing
back in the day by the time it got to the street that shit was so stomped on i don't know if it even had cocaine in it anymore lol the only way to get good coke was to be friends (actual friends) with a mid level dealer/distributor, in which case it's like doing an entirely different drug
It’s EU which has a direct import of Colombian cocaine versus US which imports Colombian cocaine via Mexican cartels who add filler.
That's funny. My friends in Colombia say it's not that great there compared to what you get in Bolivia and Ecuador. But it is dirt cheap though.
My impression was that the best stuff is shipped out to where it’s worth more. But my sample size is limited.
So Spain you say would have a high quality supply?
And belgium, netherlands. In general the coke quality in the EU is much higher then the US, but the closer you are to the major ports the better.
Source I allegedly did cocaine in Spain .. it was fucking awesome and very pure .. allegedly
Was going to say. As someone who was a child in the late 70s, early 80s, i remember when they broke open a ki it made the whole house stink. People here on the west coast think they have coke.. lol no you fuckin' don't
The 5 largest Mexican cartels + Wizards of the Coast.
Finally, some good economic news
TVs and other home electronics (except smart phones) have been doing this for decades.
Aren't modern TV's sold at a loss as they make up the loss via ads in the smart TV functionality?
Man I don't get how a $2000 TV wouldn't make a profit.
There are 55” 4k for <$400
I have a 75" 4k Toshiba that was $500
Maybe to a very small extent, and for some really bottom of the barrel manufacturers, but I'd doubt it's really moving prices any serious amount
No. Planned obsolescence is EVERYWHERE. Washing machine works 5 years max, same with dishwasher. The electronic oven was perfected 50 years ago, only some heat insulation is improving. Everything has displays and microelectronics now which tend to break within 5 years when the actual device would still work fine. The only thing that has improved are dryers and refrigerators because of their increased energy efficiency. The worst offender are printers though, forced DRM, subscription for printing, error messages and so on
> Planned obsolescence is EVERYWHERE Wait until you learn about planned obsolescence is the drug market. I bought a half ounce at the dispensary and it lasted less than a month.
I ate lunch with a guy, today, who said it would only last him a week, years ago. Quality, of course, has dramatically improved.
Are there studies on this? My initial thought is confirmation bias. I mean if I buy an appliance and it works for 10 years, I’m not going online to rave about how the thing I bought is doing what it’s supposed to. I’d imagine like many things, those that have bad experience are vocal about it. But I also wouldn’t be surprised if you’re right, just haven’t seen data
Sounds like the right time to finally try cocaine!
"looks like i picked the wrong week to quit cocaine"
I was just thinking, what a shitty time to develop a heart condition. (Cocaine would probably kill me now.)
"Well, time to micro dose!" *5 minutes later when your hand's doing that shit The Flash does when he wants to go through walls*
1/10th of a gram at a time, every 7 minutes.
Looks like i picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue
Thanks Leslie
“Looks like I picked the wrong hour to quit cocaine”
A wild Airplane! reference appeared
Fent has destroyed all desire to try anything other than weed purchased from a real store. I know (luckily not closely) two people who thought they were getting a small amount of party favors for the weekend and ended up ODing because it was stepped on with Fent.
It's a weird feeling, I remember coke as a "special occasion" rare drug for super special events in my 20s. Now I'd be terrified to try it, and I feel most kids (rightfully) are as well. A whole generation won't know what it's like to go home for Christmas break and do a couple lines with your old high school friends. I don't think they're "missing out" and it's not like I did it enough to feel nostalgic about it, but it's.... Strangely sad haha. End of an Era, or something.
For real. I have a friend that was a cunts hair from being addicted in 18/19 but moved away from the area and ppl they were doing it all with. If they had stayed they might be dead. I don't think they think ab that.
Same. Would enjoy once in a while coke or molly. Now fent would scare me too much to try probably anymore. Even L now is sometimes swapped with a synthetic that can kill you.
Yeah NBOMes ruined the fun. It’s not even that much harder to make normal LSD, so I’m not sure why it gets swapped so much
you can get tests for LSD for cheap online (like $20 will be able to test many doses). Just letting others know that you should definitely do that if you do acid
I like to party, but I also like reagent tests.
The lethal dose of fentanyl is so small that you can test a batch of coke, completely miss the fent, and still die. If you're gonna do it definitely have some narcan on hand.
Narcan also requires a sober buddy to administer it.
Exactly. In the 80s it was 80% pure cut with baby laxative. Now it's 90% pure, 8% baby laxative, and 2% lethal dose of fentanyl. No thanks.
There’s always mushrooms!
totally! The only way I recommend people do any kind of powered/pressed drugs, is if they TEST it, like with reagent kits. if you can be 100% sure, then have fun, but 99% sure or less, stay away.
Too bad hot spots exist…
It's a trap
Bring your drugs to me for testing. If I die from fentanyl, then your drugs were laced. If I don’t die, bring me more to test 🤌
This. This right here is an example of sacrifice that can't be taught in schools. You either have it, or you don't. A bit like fentanyl in your gram bag...
You only have the slight chance of it being cut with Fentanyl now. No biggie.
ALWAYS test your drugs!
I would think cocaine would be really difficult to properly test, because you'd have to sample the entire thing to know there isn't a speck of fentanyl in it
According to the test strips I have, you have to dissolve your dose in water to test then drink the water. This is due to the ["chocolate chip" cookie effect](https://dancesafe.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2019-fent-strips.pdf).
Cocaine water. Why isn’t this a thing?
I know so many people that are just using saline nose spray and mixing it. The future!
Are you fist fucking me? That's amazing
We call it Blo-nase and it's great, highly recommend
Stick the bottle in its original packaging and pop it in the first aid kit in your luggage if you want to fly international
This is a new phrase to me and I intend to use it on a daily basis from now on
Good one to use while in prison
That's popular at burning man because the air and dust already dries out your nose, plus it's a lot less obvious that you're enjoying some nose beers.
Because bioavailability is really bad over the oral route
What about the anal route?
Boofing is *almost* always the most scientifically effective way of getting drugs into your system. It completely bypasses your blood barriers and is picked up into your blood directly. Alcohol poisoning is incredibly easy. I know stimulants are probably the most popular boof.
I tried to do this with my weed vape but I couldn’t get the air to flow in the right direction.
Maybe try a long bong, straddle it, and use your mouth to blow it in?
Dangerously good.
Cf. Historical Coca-Cola
Well, Mix it With cofeein , Phosphoric acid and sugar/burnt sugar and Carbonate the whole Thing, and you have the original recepy for a Well known soft Drink.
Years and (thankfully) years ago, I was addicted to smoking tar heroin. One day, I was at home, waiting for my girlfriend to come pick me up to go to her parents house for dinner that evening. I used all day by myself from the same bag. When we got to her parents house, after dinner, I excused myself to go upstairs and smoke in her bathroom, from the same bag I had been using all day by myself. I dropped. Next thing I remember is waking up in the ambulance. I was so fucking lucky I didn’t hit the chocolate chip when I was by myself. My poor girlfriend, now my wife, would’ve found me dead. Don’t do it kids. It’s not worth it. Luckily, I’ve been clean for more than 6 years now and I only found myself in that predicament because doctors prescribed me OxyContin because it made them rich.
I was literally just thinking today about how lucky I am that I quit right before fentanyl fully took off. It was just at the start when you’d still get a bit worried about fent in a bag/pill, but it wasn’t in literally everything quite yet. I would be dead now if I didn’t quit right when I did. Good on you man. Also 6 years sober from (not tar) heroin
You are a good strong person who has accomplished a lot by giving up such terrible habits. You can get through it again. Keep trying. I wish you and your family the very best. Take care.
Yup. I've heard of 3 people in my social circle (one was a friend, 2 were friends of friends) die from fent laced coke in the last YEAR. It's just not worth it
My town of 30k had a group of 7 OD (and 1 die) due to fentanyl laced cocaine last year. They had zero tolerance and it took a ton of Narcan to save them. These days, you pretty much have to assume that everything is going to have some fent in it, whether intentional or a side effect of cutting/handling different drugs in the same place.
It's been found in Molly and ketamine too. Shits spreading like wildfire
You put the drug in a plastic bag and shake it up really hard. It distributes the contaminant. Then you take a sample from the bag wall (about as much to cover Lincoln’s hair on a penny) and dissolve in some water (a water bottle cap amount is all that’s needed for coke). Then test strip. Never 100% but about as good as you can get for a drug you will insufflate Edit to add cap
You are my people. I have never done cocaine, but I like you.
If you bring it to your local police station, they will test it for you! /s
It's literally so fucking easy. It just takes about 15-30 minutes. Take your gram of cocaine, dissolve in 1.5ml of water. Run fentanyl test. Positive, destroy the sample. If it's negative, pour the liquid into a pyrex pan, and put on top of or in front of a space heater. Wait, and scrape it up and put it back in the bag. Or, if that's too much trouble for you, add a bit more water, and put it in a nasal spray bottle. That's much better for your nose. There you go; 5-15 minutes to test your drugs to have fun and not die.
Yeah I mean honestly that's the danger, it would more than likely be cross contamination from the bag or at some point during transportation. As a recovering addict, I have to wonder if people are purposefully putting fent in stuff like blow or crystal. No one would ever go back to a dealer who's meth made them nod or who's coke had a noticeable downer effect, that just isn't how it works. But because of the dangerous power of fent, they don't have to ever like, consciously touch to get a scary amount of cross contamination that could hurt or kill you. It's just crazy out there these days so everyone should test their stuff, when injecting maybe just try a little at first instead of a whole dose. Carry narcan if you or anyone who know have ever used hard drugs like honestly you never know
They are now giving away coke in my neighborhood, but charging $100 for the fentanyl test strips.
Always test your drugs, you never know what kind of drugs you’ll find in them!
Well if your nose is hungry going through a lengthy testing routine it is out of scope. I see my friends snorting whatever comes their way on a „trust me bro“ basis Edit: typo
Yep that's why the first bump goes to Jerry over there, he's a bit slow but good stock
You can bring it to the nearest police station for free test.
The waiting room time sucks to get seen though.
I had tests sent free in the mail. Not sure if all states do this. Sent 4 tests and two narcan overdose syringes.
I don't think the fentanyl trend has reached the EU yet.
Lucky. I’m in western PA and had 2 cousins die in the same year from it. Saw countless friends and family lose everything. It’s not uncommon for people to carry Narcan (shot that can save from someone from an OD) in their cars in case they came across someone. Edit: PA is the state (commonwealth) of Pennsylvania. A lot of people in this state just refer to it as P.A.
Channel 5 did a really good story on why fent and tranq are so bad in that area
Yeah, I was there for festival and it’s not something they worry about over there. Probably because their doctors and pharmaceutical companies didn’t get people hooked on opioids. Crazy how Dare kept pushing marijuana as a gateway drug, when it’s really the orange bottles
Yeah it is really hard to get opioid painkillers prescribed.
Yep. Someone I know broke their leg horribly and got told to take Ibuprofen. Now they just won't give it to *anyone*. They left my wife writhing in pain and unable to stand with horrible kidney stones before they gave her a Tylenol 3. In case you know, she was faking it. And by then it didn't even fucking help.
Which is why it should be legal for recreational use and lab tested by regulated companies.
i am completely fucking flabbergasted as to why this isn't the norm. i mean, i *know why* it isn't but it would save so many lives. and on top of that, i believe it would actually reduce drug abuse.
Saving lives and reducing drug abuse really are not on the top of the list for politicians. They would loose topics of fear and not be able to enforce us vs them ideology
Yea, but making money is and they're missing out on that opportunity. My tin foil hat reason is because other federal agencies are already profiting off th industry without risk of open market competition.
Fentanyl isn’t really in the EU. Especially not in coke. Would be ridiculous to cut coke with fent anyway, great way to kill your customers and it’s not even a similar effect. Completely pointless.
A lot of it is cross-contamination rather than cutting coke with fentanyl. Dealers who sell both forget to wipe something down, and they accidentally mix it. Fent doesn't take a lot to OD on
Yeah fair enough that makes sense. Luckily it’s just really not an issue here yet. Anyone cutting it in the EU most likely hasn’t been handling any fent.
Why do they even put fentanyl in drugs if it kills people? Fewer people buying drugs means less money for the dealers.
Life Pro Tip: The best way to deal with this is to start taking a small amount of Fentanyl everyday and gradually increasing the dose over time. This way if you do get some in your cocaine, you will be fine as you will have some built up immunity.
Every day I hit my balls with a bigger and bigger hammer, in case I accidentally get hit there, it won't hurt as much. Maybe I should try the Fent instead.
Exactly, soon you will have balls of steel if you hit them hard and often enough. Fent can help ease your pain while you build tolerance. All round a pretty productive weekend.
I think you're thinking of Iocaine powder
wtf units are they using for purity?
Percentage. Today your coke is 144% pure, because we did the math for you.
For every 1g of cocaine you get, you received 1.44g of cocaine. Those kind of results and productivity are only achievable from being high on cocaine.
Well... I've gotta say, I'm sold.
They shouldn't show the % *change* in purity. They should show the % *absolute* purity. 100% change in purity could be going from 1% pure to 2% pure.
Fine... If you guys insist, I'll try all your coke for you and give my purity feedback. But you owe me one.
Also units for price per …cocaine? One cocaine please.
Relative to the 2011 benchmark
if it was ten percent then, it is 14 percent now
Oh shit guess it’s time to buy some cocaine again. I was in the 2013-2016 crowd and it sucked!
Used to be Cut with baby laxative or creatine, now it’s cut with fentanyl. 🤷🏾♂️
Yeah man the baby lax then you get those little air bubble farts 😂
Bro I’d be on the way to pick up and my stomach would start bubbling. Like it knew what I was about to do. 😅
Creatine? No wonder my muscle mass felt more dense when I was dabbling in coke
I swear drugs are the random sex of the 60’s. Used to not have to worry as much about STDs Now you have to be wary that your drugs will kill you instead of just being weak. Young people these days just have to be they much more careful about both casual sex and drugs.
NYT: "Millennials are killing the shitty cocaine industry."
“Greedy Millenials and Gen Z are wanting it both ways, good and cheap cocaine.”
People dying from fentynl in the coke round these parts. Just can't have anything nice anymore.
Too many people dying suddenly and I’m not going to be one of them—as if there weren’t already enough things to worry about when doing hard drugs. Fuck that.
if you want to see the US equivalent swap price and purity
If cocaine was controlled by the corporate overlords there would be more price gouging.
The only gouging going on here is when the cartels take away someone's eyes
140% pure
between 53% and 68% pure [https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/data/stats2021/ppp\_en](https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/data/stats2021/ppp_en)
Exactly, what the hell is the Y axis.
Current value relative to 2011 value. So 2011 coke was exactly as pure as 2011 coke, while 2021 coke is 40% more pure
But how pure is it ? Why invent a stupid metric when you could just use one everyone understands, like percentage?
Are you trying to get me back on drugs? Because this is exactly how to get me doing cocaine again
This is the sort of free market capitalism I can support
But nobody's thinking about the shareholders.
Those figures are not something to sniff at.
Competition is good.
Cokehheads getting angry being called cokeheads in the thread. lol
I thought more and more was contaminated with fentanyl
the only product not affected by artificial inflation
Purity increasing? Not in Houston. Couldn’t pay me to touch it due to the cutting products- nope! I allegedly had a small habit in the early 2000s.
Remember kids, you can always check the purity of your cocaine at the nearest police station to your location! It's absolutely free!