Hippie crack is irrelevant unless your a huffer with a serious mental fixation on N02. Where I'm from, it's not super expensive, somethin like 8 bucks for a 12 pack of whippits so there u go. OR, if I'm at a festival or somethin (ie; grateful fest last year at Nelson's ledges), I can usually catch somebody roaming around with a 5lb tank in a backpack, sellin giant punch n Judy balloons for $xxxa pop. That's not too bad to be honest. The dude with the balloons is making a killing tho for sure. But back to the original point I was gonna make....
Comparing something like a gas to huff, or even a dose of some bomb ass Liquid, and in most cases, even BUD, to somethin like some Skag or blow, is apples and oranges. $xxx-$xxx for a sack of some bomb ass organic strawberry diesel chronic, is well worth the cash. And being a junkie myself, just makes a purchase like that all the more justifiable. That sack is gonna last me all week long, where as opposed to some Skag, if I pay $xxx/gram for some middle of the road decent Heroin, it's gonna last me personally 1/2 a day (split between me and my wife). So before I know it, I'm goin out n pickin up another Gram, but thru the course of my day so far, I've only smoked 2 doobies n a few
Bubblers with some friends. Didn't even put a dent in that fat ass sack of chronic.
But to say that price is a factor for me personally when it comes to the amount that I would be using, I personally don't think it is at this point. Because when you've become dependent to a certain extent on Skag, it's not gonna matter what the price is. If you have to pay more, it's gonna be because its better shit. If you pay less, it's because it's garbage and you have to do more to get off. So either way I'm payin that cash out every day to get my fix. N as much as it sucks to say that. N no matter how much I wish I could say that if the shit was too expensive, I just flat out wouldn't do the shit, that, unfortunately, is not the case.
On the OTHER hand tho, when it comes to Oxy.... I started off doin Oc's n I was paying $xxx a pop for 80's all day long. After a couple years of that bullshit, I was paying $xxx a day to get off on those little fuckers, which is why I turned to H in the first place. That's probably the one example of a drug in today's black market. Where pricing is a factor in wether or not were gonna do the drug or not. OxyContin just flat out isn't worth the cash that people are shelling out today for it. And anybody who is addicted to Oxy, and refuses to cross that line over in to heroin, because they're convinced that its two completely different things, is strictly kidding themselves. The ONLY differences between the two drugs, is that the pharmeceutical companies regulate what goes into an Oxy, so you know what your getting each time. That, and it comes in pill form. That's about it IMHO. The high is just about the same, especially when u bang them, they just cost rediculous cash. N I've heard nowadays that some people are paying xxx-xxx-xxx bucks even for a god damn 80, that's a fuckin shame. Especially if you have to buy 2 or 3 to really get off..
I know this sounds like bad advice, but if you've got a 2 or 3 Oxy 80 a day habit, you may a swell graduate to heroin. Take 1/2 the cash you'd spend on Oxy in a day, n go to your local dopeman and pick up a fat sack of Boi, and try a little. Snorting it is wasting it (true drug abuse IMHO). You'll find that you've spent 1/2 the cash u normally would, on something that will give u the same high only STRONGER, and it will last LONGER. At least for the first year or so, you'll have saved yourself insane amounts of cash, just because you've faced the music and made the logical transition to something that at this point in your life is, let's face it, inevitable. I know you've promised yourself that you'd NEVER do heroin. But that promise is what's killin u my friend. Other than the drugs themselves, that is, lol.
Your wallet will thank you. Your body will even thank you, because if you're eating/snorting/shooting oxycodone, chances are you're doing anything with Oxy in it, which means Percocet, and the entire Oxy family - which means your ingesting an insane amount of acitomeniphen, and that stuff will kill you if u take too much over time. Oxy is the ONLY drug IMHO where price should be a real factor in wether or not you keep using them. If its getting too damn pricy, and believe me, IT IS DUDE....then either quit using (good luck n get subs), or start using something cheaper and stronger, in which case you will slap yourself in the forehead and ask yourself why you didn't say fuck it n do this way earlier..
Sorry for the novel,
K1.