Dude that's so funny you said that.. I was exactly the same. I figured H was H.. I was more concerned about getting 10 bags in my bundle than anything. Slowly I began to realize if you get garbage it might take 10 bags of it to equal 1 good bag of fire. I remember back int he day the 1st stamp I got that made the light bulb click, I sniffed back then, it was a purple100% stamp out of Paterson. I remember buying 5 of them for the price I would spend on a single 30mg oxy Ir, and when I got home I realized that each bag was as potent if not slightly more as the blues were.. That stamp was out for like 3 weeks.. it was crazy being able to buy 20 bags for dirt cheap compared to 20 roxis. Needless to say I never turned back.
At first I remember getting like 2 bags of dope in Paterson after driving around scared like a lil bitch because I didn't know any connects until finally this black dude was lke yo I got xmen on me. I was like lemme get 1. hes like wtf a single bag? I am like yeah but he still sold it. Then I peaces out. I had a high oxy tolerance at the time.. I remember taking like matchstick tiny bumps and shit scared like yooo i don't wanna OD. The bag didn't feel like it did shit by the time I had finished it. Actually I remember trying to open it and I was like wtf they like hand fold and glue this shit shut.. then I realized you just have to tear it at the seam lol its so easy and the bag unfolds. I like cut into it with a razor blade or some shit. I truly was clueless.
So the 1st few times before I got 100% I just picked up random stamps at bad prices driving around cold copping super naive b/c I never had did it before. I ended up buying roxis because the high was better from them.. eventually I realized I just was getting shitty dope.
The first time I did dope I got it through my OC dealer. He stopped selling OCs, and started selling dope, so I eventually made the change. He just said that he wasn't getting 80s anymore because he was back on dope, and that a bag would be like 60mg of oxycodone, and naturally cheaper. When I decided to get a bag I drove over to him, he got in the car to chill for a minute and smoke a cig, and he was surprised that I was waiting until I got home to sniff it since I would usually sniff the oxy right away. Truth is I was intimidated by heroin, and wasn't about to sniff it carelessly since I thought I would OD easily on it, but I quickly learned that my tolerance of 160mg of oxycodone had me prepared for dope. I felt pretty good off the bag, and just like he said it felt like 60mg of oxycodone. I went from doing 2 80mg OCs to get high, to using 3 bags of dope instead, which was much cheaper even at inflated suburban prices. It's funny how we were both scared to sniff the dope at first so were doing tiny bumps at a time, but meanwhile our opiate tolerance was enough to make 1 bag of dope not enough to get us where we needed to be.
That's pretty common though, people with high oxycodone habits expecting a bag of dope to be stong enough to get them as high as they need, and they end up being disappointed. It's that media hype and all the people you hear about ODing on heroin that makes you afraid of it at first. When I finished my first bag I thought, wow, that actually did feel just like 60mg of oxycodone, just like I was told. So I wasn't disappointed with dope, it was exactly what I was told it would feel like, but I was worried about OD due to stigma.
With Opana being more popular now, I could see people being disappointed with dope if they make the switch. Oxymorphone is some potent shit, a lot more potent than heroin mg for mg. I've only done Opana a few times, and even with a dope tolerance sniffing an Opana 40 got me high. The heroin/opana combo had me almost too high the one time I did it. I don't have enough experience with it to know how it effects tolerance, but from what I heard it jacks it up pretty high, so I'm sure people taking a lot of opana would need a lot more dope than they would think, in order to get a nice high.
As for the stamps I was getting when I first started with dope, I actually never paid any attention to the stamp names so I barely remember the ones I got on my first dope run. I was going to the same dealer who was my only dope dealer at the time, so stamps didn't mean anything to me since I wasn't shopping around, and also like I said before, I thought that all dope was the same for a while. The first stamp I remember was this "Street Legal" stamp with a car doing a burnout under it. The irony of that stamp is what made me remember it I guess, like imagine getting busted with those bags; "your honor, I was assured that the bags that I was buying were street legal, so either let me go and charge them with false advertisement, or I will file a complaint against them to the Better Business Bureau."