I've always wondered about stuff like this when people say most street dope is 20-40%, like how do you know you don't get one shot that's 10%, and then rig up a big shot of 60% next time and OD...
You dont know. I have seen smaller operations in effect [moving an ounce or more a day] and it was much more methodical and cautious. I have also seen some decent sized operations on accident [pulling in 10-20K a day easy] They are so frugal in their methods I can see why its so easy to catch a hot shot and turn blue. basically they had a apartment in a highrise project all that was in the room was a card table and some cheap folding chairs. I'll skip how I got in there. So there set-up was like this: They had a huge pile of powder on the table at the very least a Q to half pound, the had coffee grinders and had some what of a 'recipe' dealing mainly with the ratio's for cut per raw in several quantities. Two or three sat at the table with bandanas over their face do protect them from inhaling to much heroin dust the coffee grinded out the desired amount of heroin and ontop the amount of the cut [I didnt get to find out what the cut was as it wasnt the best environment to pry for details, it wasnt Dormin though I know that]. Than they would take regular playing cards and just keep folding the dope unto itself over and over. 'Which I am sure ensures a perfect consistency 8) . Than the powder was scooped up and piled into a regular grocery bag [plastic] and brought to a different apartment where the actual retail processing, i.e bag it, tag it, and hurry the fuck up.
These people dont care about a fucked cut, they live to die the next day, they dont give a flying fuck except for the almighty green machine the US hundred dollar bill. Still the consistency was always similar per other bags of the same dope. Except when they decide this is the week when the ratio's get flipped a bit and the heroin decreases and there pockets bulge even further, eventually bringing the dope up to super-duper strength again.
I am sure their are other a bit more methodical operations but for street ghetto dope thats basically what you get. There are sick people out there that cut shit up on purpose to cause harm, or maybe there so fucking stupid they think a Atropine powder or some cat poison makes a ok cut cause they are to lazy to get off there ass and get something correct. I have some good stories about ill cut dope and the negative reactions, well I dont know if I would call them 'good' stories rather interesting stories [another time, a forgotten place].
So yea since I know where those bags of illicit fentanyl are coming from I know the area and what I described above was a block or two away from the current selling point of the recent rash of chicago fentanyl OD's. Those motherfuckers dont care about killing someone, somebody had to be the quinne pigs. They probably gave a few bags to the resident old man dope fiend to try out and tell them what he thinks and because his tolerance is thru the roof and somewhere in the stars he got off nice and good and gave them a thumbs up.
The first out break of Fentanyl was in August in Chicago, they let 5 months past and than broke it out again to test it out and obviously they made a mistake on there methods. So I am sure there is a large amount of illicit fentanyl lounging around somewhere in Chicago waiting to be sold. I would think since they have high contacts being able to purchase probably a kilo of fent. you would think they would have been told how careful they have to cut it. If they would just hire a smart person to correctly constitute the dope using methods that need to be used with a drug this powerful. We are talking about southside of chicago ghetto high level dope pushers, you think they even know what a 'rotary evaporator' is, or fuck even what it does.
I am sure there have been a few successful batches sold thru out the city with no ill effects and not such a big rash of deaths let alone the media attention that highlights their operation. I am positive of that. Its just some of these gangstars dont know shit, probably picked up a quarter ounce of illicit fentanyl from a local gang connect didnt listen and fuct up the cut. I bet my bottom dollar some gang is sitting on a monster stash of illicit fentanyl eventually they will get the cut right or find the right person to do it for them. The money to be made from a kilo of fent. compared to a kilo of heroin is insanely different, and if your a dope dealer you want to maximize your profit, this is going to hurt thier operation which has been shut down and erased for now, media attention and fentanyl OD's dont mix. They have enough money to buy off anybody so they will get it right. I am figuring if their track records proceed them come summertime there will be another outbreak, unless they figure out the ratio's and correct procedure. I also bet that there is bags of heroin being sold as heroin right now in Chicago that are fentanyl cut up.
You know or at least one with a keen sense of opiates know. When a bag gets you high as fuck acts similar to heroin and you arent even thinking it could be fentanyl so power of suggestion is not at play. Than the high wears of a bit quicker but they also have a cut in it that will produce nodding hours into the high so the fent. high is gone and your nodding from the cut. If one was familiar with a fent. rush and high you might spot it earlier. Than the give-away of knowing is the holding power of the dope. A fent. bag will hold you 8-12 hrs before sickness hits, less than half the time of a heroin bag [genrealized]. I am not taking into account a heroin addict who is pounding 2-3 bags into their arm every 3 hours you might not even notice the short holding period because your constantly high. Drug dealers are shady playing with their arsenal of cuts to mimic the effects of heroin while using fentanyl as the heroin and tricking the client.
Theres my take on it. The dope trade in chicago goes in cycles just like any other city, except chicago is a bit more closer knit with their trade as the gangs cooperate with each other a bit better than other cities. You could write a book on the art of buying, cutting, bagging, cycling the strength of the heroin sold to retail customers, cuts, etc. its a story onto itself.