StoneHappyMonday
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It matters to the price and profit margin PT.
There's far more money if you were shifting the same amount of meth but there's fucking no chance that you could sell the same amount of meth as you could coke. Who the fuck does 10g of meth in a night then phones you for more at 6am?
It could be like the way Crack Cocaine never really took off over here like it did in the US, as far as I know
It matters to the price and profit margin PT.
Yeah because of the market here you would make more off the shit coke (cos you can shift more). But if you were selling grams at half the price Dee dee's mates pay you would be making 10 times the % profit easily.
Or the CIA decide we can have it.
I'm not joking.
It certainly took off round here lol
(this city not my front room)
what I meant by the arse would have to fall right out the cocaine market before meth could really take off big
I'm fairly sure methamphetamine took off so catastrophically in the US because of widespread poverty and unemployment.
Although we've got our fair share of poverty and unemployment, we have nothing on the US.
Maybe the average working guy just can't spare the time needed to nurture a meth habit.
Meth could also be seen as a reflection of want among poorer people in the US. If you're poor there you're much poorer, so you're going to think meth is an awesome and cheap drug at first, when it only costs you what? £30 for your first binge, at a max? They obviously want to be doing coke, but not only does it not come to middle America, they can't afford it. And where would they do it? Doing coke for the sake of it going about your day is reserved for when you're properly addicted, but with meth that seems to be pretty normal right from the first few times.
Meth is not addictive from "the first few times". Let's get that just say no shit out of the way eh?
Mephedrone was the UK's crystal meth. For 16 year olds.
parttime methchef
Aye I suppose. Now that I think about if it was going to properly replace anything it would have been regular speed & the speed market went to absolute shit a long time ago. Maybe if old school speed was still as popular now, so that people were used to the long duration in comparison to MD or coke, then meth would be bigger now that it's seemingly at least a bit easier to get a hold of than it was a few years ago.
That's from a users perspective though, if the supply was there. I still think from a dealers perspective that it can't be difficult to shift a lot of the usual stuff (coke, eccies, ket) so there's not really any need to go selling meth, especially as there's not a massive demand.
MSB
If you're importing coke it's an easy 50x mark up, and they do that by 100kg-ton amounts that they don't have to make or fuck about with really. Once that's here it would all be gone rapid. With meth if you made it yourself you'd actually make less of a mark up selling it by breaking down big bits into kgs. It would also move out the door slowly, you'd have to build the market etc. The headache of importation wouldn't be gone, because you'd need to get in several very watched chemicals. Then to make those sorts of amounts you're going to need a whole operation of maybe 10-20 micro labs. Then once you'd built the market you'd have competitors who'd drive the price down extremely low. We're basically talking about the sort of Breaking Bad mexican cartel sort of shit that our dealers don't do - they rarely if ever make mdma for us. If we do ever see meth all over the place it will be because the market grew very very slowly, 1 lab dealer by 1 lab dealer, and they are easy to take out, because for the most part they have no or little idea that every time they buy ephedrine that will get them watched.
MSB
Also, people in the UK are idiots. The idea that you can do 50mg, which they couldn't quantify with their half g lines of fake coke, wouldn't click with them. It wouldn't satisfy them. It's the same reason MXE didn't catch on. Ultimately there are only a small amount of people in the UK who want to be full time wreck heads compared to the US, plus other countries meth users often started out as workers wanting to do longer shifts who then fell into addiction - I can't see that happening here
Spoilt by your edit crackhead damn you.
Lol is it getting late here chaps?