I haven't copped in Hartford, but I'd imagine that they're black as they are in New Haven, West Haven, Bridgeport, and everywhere else we've picked up dope.
30 - 40 mg is the norm for a NJ bag, and they're usually really, really good, sometimes as good or better than the larger NY-style bags with 70 - 80 mg, so I don't think of a 30 - 40 mg bag as being "sad" when they're extremely potent.
I'm not even bullshitting you; the bags my guy has right now are about 40 or 50 mg, and they're better than the 70 - 80 mg NY-style bags going around right now. I went to him today as opposed to my guy with the NY bags because yeah, they're a little bit smaller, but they're actually better.
It's only when the dope is garbage that a 30 - 40 mg bag is "sad" because not only is the dope garbage, but you don't even have enough of it to make it worth while. That's definitely happened to us before, and yeah, those are sad days... lol
But that's why we keep our options open. Now that we've got more than one, more than two, and more than three connects -- connects with all different bags, bags from NY and NJ -- well, we can sample everyones bags and then go to the guy with the better bags. It sounds crazy, but we've done it before lol and they all "make their living," so to speak, in relatively the same area, within a few blocks of one another, so it's never really too big a deal to make our rounds.