Hey! Thanks for the thread! I'm glad you asked the questions that you did... I saw a MA thread that someone from Japan started a little while back where TB mentioned "fingers". IME, around here it is sold as fingers & half fingers, which are 10 grams & 5 grams respectively. (I have heard that fingers from some are 5-7 like TB said..think it depends on who you get it from??) Although the concept that a finger comes packaged in the finger of a latex glove is correct- I'm guessing that's where the term originated from anyway- -i've only seen them packaged in a plain old plastic bag. The dealer gets it in wax in the shape of a candlestick (or finger). He/she breaks it, weighs it, and puts it in the bag.
The stuff I've been getting for the most part is white/beige also. It comes solid, rock-like. I can totally see your comparison to chalk. When I get it home I have a little ritual of putting it through a sifter (which is how I always did my pills), then I go through it with a razor blade- even though it's unnecessary- it's part of my ritual, and I seperate it into piles and/or lines. Last week I got some different stuff from a different guy, which was darker, and a bit stronger, but yesterday I picked up my usual. I'm happy with it. As a matter of fact I'm at the office & was nodding my ass off at my desk a little while ago so I went outside to smoke a butt & get some air..pulled BL up on my phone & came across this thread.
I have to say it's not a common occurence that I'm nodding this early or while I'm here, but it's a quiet, rainy Friday, my boss is out of the office & so I decided to indulge a little and dosed a little bigger & a lot earlier than planned. I'm typically pretty regimented during the day & throughout the week.
As for my opinion on the stuff I've been getting.. I've done dope here & there in the past, but very infrequently through the years. I just recently made the switch from pharms towards the end of the summer- so not only am I a BL noob- I'm an H noob as well. I love it though. Probably too much. But I am certainly no expert. In my limited experience it has mostly been about weight. In the beginning I bought a few bags at a time though. Bags here are tiny & wicked expensive. They come in the corner of a plastic sandwich bag. No fancy stamps unfortuantely. In years past I have heard others around here talk about buying bricks, but I don't know much about that. I'm from a pretty small town on the south shore and from what I've heard the northshore is pretty different.
I'm hoping there are more people from MA on BL than it seems and that they contribute here. I'm really curious to hear others experiences. I definitely know more about the dope scenes in several other states from lurking on here. Wow, long enough post? My first, might as well make it count.