A few people have wondered why it seems the WS seems to have dropped off, and its effect is mirrored in our infamous Chi dope thread. Well, obviously hot street corners have pushed sales to the next logical step: cell phones. But if your connect gets busted, they'll still try to grab you using his phone, texting like things are cool til you show up. Now, maybe that's too much hassle - maybe they're not impounding cars for cash ransom any more. I don't know. I bailed out two cars back in the day.
The street is still impersonal - in and out, no cell number that can end up in CPD's database. The corner cameras don't seem to be in play and the corner boys just moved down the block anyway. Still hot as shit, but the adrenaline rush is part of the addiction. What's killing the scene is synthetics. Dope slingers have killed their cash cow by reducing the organic heroin and increasing fentanyl in each bag. Plain and simple - there's no fucking euphoria in fentanyl. It's a super pain-killer that'll knock you out. Fine if you're strung out and don't want to get sick, and fine if your goal is "nodding."
But for me, it was always that god-feeling euphoria. I only snorted 90% of the time, and so do most suburban fiends with disposable income. You want to laugh, have your mind blasting at 150+%, totally love your shit job, feel the music… you get it. That shit's missing - totally gone with the spec of fentanyl in a bag of dorman. And if there's more than a spec… well. Obviously sources can disappear for gangs, but ordering fentanyl off the dark web - that's pretty dependable. And way cheaper. Why not?
If I wanted to relapse - and I do occasionally - but I know that now I'm most likely to find shit. That euphoria was for sale on every corner back around 2004-5 and a number of years before and after - that's gone. The quality has gone down over the years, and now it's mostly shit. Why not just take a couple of xanex if you like nodding out? Synthetics are killing the dope game. Get that Afghanistan source back! Until then, less and less people are going to want to take a chance with fentanyl, or synthetic analogues or whatever arrived in the mail from China. Or if they're trying it for the first time, they're like, "What's the big deal? I slept."
See y'all in a couple years - that's about my posting frequency!