As far as that redtape spot, it seems like certain runners over there seem to come back with better dope than others from their "hiding" spot. I dont know why considering the bags are hard as hell to open but maybe some of dem boys go through the hassle of opening up the next to impossible tape, pinching some and then making there own brand of red tape. I don't know but it pisses me off to get great dope one day and then nothing near as good the next.
Hey chitown I take it that you ended up going to the red tape spot and were less than satisfied with their product. I actually did end up going out west today too, I tried calling your cell but it was late and just got your voicemail. Maybe wednesday i'll be free during the day.
Anyways that’s not the point of this post, I actually have a question about how the scene was way back in the day specifically I think Crook county would be the most qualified and knowledgeable to answer this.
I started heading out west for dope in 1996, maybe early 1997 at the latest. Even in the time since then the scene out west has changed considerably but that’s a whole post in itself which I’m not gonna get into right now unless anyone out thaere actually cares and wants to know.
I did some research in the newspaper archive going back into the 1970's and what I found was that Chicago was primarily a Mexican brown or black tar dope city. Nearly all of the dope was from this one Mexican connect then some time in the 1980's the feds busted this Mexican connection and the market suddenly opened up, this was filled with Nigerians selling southwest and southeast Asian heroin, as well as a significant amount of south American heroin entered the city and brown and tar dope was almost completely replace with white powder.
Also this is when the west side flourished as an open air market. My question is how was the scene before this Mexican connection bust. Specifically I’m asking how did people get dope. Was the west side an open air drug market as it is today or is that something that came about only when the white dope entered the city. I can't find anything in the newspaper stories about there being open air drug spots on the west side until we start getting into the 1990's and thats when mentions of this scene finally started to hit the newspapers.
Was dope bought the way it is now back in the early 80's, or how about the 70's or 60’s? So far what I’ve discovered is that Chicago did not have an open market until the late 80's and early 90's. I can't seem to find information telling me otherwise. Does anyone know or was around the Chicago scene pre-1990.
I would love to know this was always curious, I’m think that it was actually the crack hitting the streets circa 1985 that the west side become a drug paradise and coincidentally the heroin also changed into the white powder form which caused a huge spike in demand cause now the suburban kiddies can snort the dope and don't have to shoot so the use of dope skyrocketed here. It seems that the feds busting that Mexican connect ending up being a great thing for us junkies.
Finally it’s said that all the forms of dope are available in chitown, but personally I ran into brown dope just ONCE since 1996, and never into tar nor met anyone that ran into it either so I have no idea where these two types of dope can be found here (I’m not looking FYI). I'm assuming you have to be tied into the Hispanic community here to find any connects for these forms of dope. So Crook county can you help answer my questions or anyone else here that can answer. Thanks.
PS- While looking thru the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-times i did find an interesting story from i think it was the mid 70's about a coule that was hooked on dope and lived on the streets here in the city. From what i gathered from that story was that dope was sold from dealers out of their homes. Basically these two junkies would call their hook up and then swing by his place to pick up. Thee was absolutely no mention of any outdoor drug buys or of the west side, but it was an intresting read nevertheless. I'll try ti find it and post it up here if i can. It was a pretty big story, it was cut into three sections, i think it ran in three consecutive sunday editions of the paper.
