You Americans should think yourselves lucky you don't have to rely on Afghan gear to get by on as over here in the UK we get 95% of our gear from the Stan which is brown, made for smoking and you have to use citric acid to cook up with. This year has seen a major drought due to the Afghan harvest dropping by two thirds due to some crop bug plus all those drones keep blowing up every Pakistani with a donkey anywhere near a mountain so they are having major trouble getting anything out the country and what they do get out is going to Russia.
Nothing good has got in for months and the gear that is about has been major shit. Lots of people have been sent loopy from banging up gear cut with bullshit like rohypnol, benzos and anaesthetic. Many people including myself have spent £100s a day and still given clean piss tests! Also you have nutbags and scrotes robbing dealers and seriously hurting people knowing the gear they are risking time in prison for is proper shit.
Prices have shot up. I was buying half oz for £300 last year now you can pay that for an eighth! £10 a point is the norm now but luckily we are getting some china white in from Burma, Thailand and elsewhere and its being cut up to make it run. Quality is finally good but prices will stay high until the Stan sorts itself out.
Even heard of someone with Mexican Black Tar the other day and I've never heard of anyone having that in my 15 years in the game. Looks like someone is sorting out new routes in which is about time as there are a good few million people going scatty over here at the moment.