vancity!
vancouver, bc (aka the shangri-la of canadian drug use)
moved here from winnipeg, mb a few months ago, and all i can say is - holy shit, the drug scene out here (in particularly the opiate scene) absolutely BLOWS AWAY anything else i've seen in canada (and i've traveled all over this fine country). The Corner (anyone familiar with van knows where i'm talking about) is the only open-air drug market i've ever encountered in this country, and it's unlike anything i could've imagined prior to having seen it with my own eyes. i can hit the corner, walk into the middle of the crowd that is almost ALWAYS amassed there (only disperses when someone yells "6 up!" to warn of incoming police) and loudly ask "who's got dillys?" (can replace 'dillys' with drug of your choice), to be immediately surrounded by at least 3-4 different people all opening pill bottles and offering you their wares, practically fighting with eachother to get the sale. it's crazy, and definitely a buyer's market. anyway, on to the prices.
heroin: (always nice, tan chunks - sometimes, if you buy from the spaniards in particular, it's a more heavily cut powder, but the size of the flaps makes up for the cut. i have a regular connect that i call and meet down the street from the corner, and his shit is always chunky)
$20/point, $35/quarter gram, $70/half gram, $120/gram, $350/8ball.
methadone: (depends on whose selling it and how much, but here are some prices i've seen) $10/40mg, $15/70mg, $20/80mg, $25/100mg, $30/120mg.
dilaudid: $5/4mg, $10/8mg, $10/12mg hydromorphcontin (same price as an 8mg dilly because of the effort required crushing up the beads to prep for IV). discounts if you buy bulk - for instance, one dealer i know offers 11 8mgs for the price of 10, another 6 8mgs for the price of 5. and if you can find someone with a script for sale (it happens fairly regularly on certain days, people take their full bottles to the corner looking to unload them for cheap), you can sometimes get 8s for as low as $4-5 a piece for 60+ of them.
morphine: $5-6/60mg, $10/100mg (always the bead ones, not the shit-ass mscontins that gel up in water. hate those.)
oxys: (actually relatively rare on the streets, compared to winnipeg, but alot cheaper when you can find them) $1/5mg IRs (so cheap because you need to deal with ALOT of powder if you want to prep a decent IV dose), $20/OC80s (these are the two most common strengths seen available).
T3s: (ridiculously cheap, almost no one wants these so people who have them are usually willing to let them go for whatever you offer - most often just looking to buy themselves a rock or something) $.25-$.50 a piece, on average. usually no higher than $.50, and often much, much cheaper.
benzos: (price varies depending on who you're getting them from - whether they're a businessman or just a crackhead looking for a quick rock - so i'll just put down the averages)
xanax: $1-2/2mg, valium: $2-3/10mg, ativan: $.50-1/2mg, restoril: $3-4/30mg, klonopin: $2-3/2mg.
chronsss: (there's a secret weed shop - shhhhhh - that offers a choice of numerous different strains of weed/hash to purchase in a retail-like environment, a bit pricey but worth it for the selection. however, since not everyone is able to get into such a place, i'll put down the average street price) $10/.8g, $60/7gs, $110/14g, $210/28g (this is the price for QUALITY, you can get ounces of shake for $40-60 easily).
MDMA (pure, white powder): $5/piece, $200/100, cheaper as you buy more (can get as low as $.75 for upwards of 500)
LSD: $5/hit, $35/10, never bought more than a 10-strip but i know that you can get 100 lots for $150-200.
coke: never purchased it in bulk, but here it's sold in either 'papers' (in little flaps of paper), or 'spitballs' (wrapped up in two layers of plastic). always $10 a piece, and one is typically enough for one good shot. like i said, i'm sure you can get better deals buying in bulk, but you never really see grams or anything like that sold on the street down here, always in $10 denominations.
crack: you can get an appropriately sized piece for ANY amount of cash. i've seen rockfiends give a dealer $2.20 in change and get a small pebble. 'packages' usually run $25 and are a fairly large chunk, but true weight rarely comes into play on the street, it's almost always done by sight.
in this utopia of drug use, you can get pretty much anything with the right connects (mushrooms, pure psilocybin, DMT, 2c-b, 5-meo-dmt), but i'm sticking with shit that you can pick up on the street.