17th Issue General Heroin Discussion v. Perfect Day

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you paint quite the picture oldhippy....now that's the way things should be run...never seen that kind of operation round here pretty much open-air, behind buildings, in basements which I hated cause most of the time there was only one way in/out for the custies...
 
I'm in the position of no money, no way of getting any and my credit line is maxed...This is why I hate winter sooo much especially the damn holidays which make it worse!!! In the spring or summer it's so easy to go out and hustle to make a few bucks; do some manual labor, go scrapping, any kind of odd job that pops up to get some dough for the day's fix. But when it's the middle of the X-Mas and New Year's, everyone seems to be still recovering from X-Mas and getting ready for New Years so no one's moving and shaking, plus the temps in the teens and 20s have everyone hibernating and it's only us idiot junkies running around trying to make something happen just to get off "E"!!! Don't know why I can't just cool my jets and just chill till the brouhaha is done with...I sit at home in front of my PC and my TV so I'm entertained but my mind is racing and scheming on how to score some $$ and get well while my nose is running a marathon and little by little my stomach is starting to ache and I'm racing to the can so I don't shit myself...sometimes I get lucky and I go to my neighbor's house to bum a smoke and he all of a sudden suggest going for a ride. When he says that I know he's cuffed his Mom's debit card and we ride to the bank and he gets some $$ and we ride over to our dealer's house and 9 out of 10 times he'll hook me up with a bag, maybe two. I know I can't depend on this happening all the time but it does and I'm soooo grateful and I always try to return the favor so it can be a scratch my back and I'll scratch yours thing. Luckily it happened today so I'm now cured and somewhat happy though you always wish you can be fucked up with your dick in the dirt as he calls it...

You could shovel people out. I have another much less ethical way of making money during winter time that is really ripe for the picking if you think about it, though I have never tried it.
 
Another story that comes to mind … It’s 1982 and I’m living in the East Village and working in Long Island City, Queens, as a Case Manager for an agency that sends (mostly) Haitian women to provide home care for disabled, elderly shut ins. I wasn’t making all that much money. By the way, if I’m ever unable to clean my own kitchen, or my own ass for that matter, send me a loving, caring old Haitian lady. At the time, some of these women would make a long commute using NYC public transportation during off hours at a moments notice to provide outstanding service for low pay to some (many ungrateful) sick folks. Props to Haitian women. But I digress.

I recall having a pretty good habit at that time, say $40 or $50 a day, which was at least half of my take-home pay. Needless to say, I was always broke. Then one day I got a “canvass letter” in the mail, inviting me to begin a rewarding career with the New York City Department of Corrections. I scoffed at the thought, until I saw the starting salary. The base was twice what I was currently earning. In addition, a recruiter told me that “new jacks” (rookies) get as much overtime as they care to work. I learned later that the overtime was MANDATORY. If the person scheduled to relieve me at the end of my shift failed to report for duty, I was REQUIRED to work another 8-hour shift. Additionally, if the person scheduled to relieve my colleague failed to report for duty, and my colleague had more seniority than me, and did not want the overtime, I was REQUIRED to work another 8-hour shift. The bottom line was many shifts, for the new jacks, ended up being 16 hours long. Go home and sleep for a few hours and come back to the hell hole for another 8 or maybe 16 hours.

They said I should expect $60 thousand my first year. I said “how soon can I start.” I did the math and realized I’d be high as fuck for a long time making that kind of money.

Addict thinking.

Some time later I’m on a 3:30 AM subway train that takes me to a NYC Transit Authority bus that takes me to a NYC Dept of Corrections bus that takes me across the East River via the Rikers Island Bridge to Rikers Island. It’s 5 AM and day 1 at the Correction Officer Academy and I’m dope sick and these fucks got me doing push-ups and running. I could go on but suffice to say the Academy was pure hell.

While at the Academy I meet a guy who goes by the name of Frenchy. We become friends, drinking a few beers on a couple of occasions. He had no clue that I was a dope fiend. Five week in, Frenchy, me, and our team take a tour of other New York City correctional facilities, including the downtown Manhattan Detention Complex, also knows as “The Tombs.” While at the MDC, we saw the ‘bullpen” where unfortunates taken into custody await their turn to see the judge.

To make a long story … not as long as it could be, it soon becomes evident that I cannot continue working as a CO. I call the Program Director from my previous job in Long Island City and ask her if my prior job is still available to me. She says it’s not. However she tells me that my previous Supervisor is pregnant and will be leaving the organization and I can come back as a Supervisor, at a higher salary than the job I left. Life is good. I resign my City job and am flush with cash.

Six weeks later (maybe more, maybe less) I’m caught up in a “buy and bust” operation in Alphabet City. At the time, the cops would bust everyone and process them at the local precinct on 5th St. Eventually I ended up in, of all places, the Manhattan Detention Complex. As I walk down a set of stairs on a chain gang, prior to being strip searched, I come face to face with Frenchy! This fucking guy stops dead in his tracks, looks me directly in the eye and says, “don’t I know you?”

I looked at him like he was crazy, shook my head, and continued on the chain. I was about to be stuck in the bullpen with at least a dozen other malcontents and the last thing I was going to do was to let them know I was a CO not too long ago.

I ended up being the person that just a few months, if not weeks prior, I was trained to guard. Dope can take you to places you swore you’d never find yourself.
 
You could shovel people out. I have another much less ethical way of making money during winter time that is really ripe for the picking if you think about it, though I have never tried it.
I sure would if there's was any snow to shovel...it snowed enough to shovel twice but it got unseasonably warm and rained so it got all washed away....bummer but then again I hate snow...guess I'll be kickin the habit soon enough if it keeps on like this...:p
 
dude, you'd have to shovel alot of people out before you get enough to feel "good". if someone would give me the dope first and then I'd shovel I'd be much faster and quicker. so maybe the dealers can spot you guys and have you come back after you make your $100 for the day.
 
what type of stories you want to tell? I am not an old hippy but I am sure I have some great dope stories; between scoring, police, jail, OD's, etc. I have quite a few.

a friend of mine would use a FAKE ID to buy needles in Waltmart/CVS because he didnt want to use his OWN NAME to buy needles; he said it makes him look bad. meanwhile, the guy behind the counter had no clue who he is regardless. always thought that was hilarious. he'd never do the clinic for dope needles, tho. the clinic if for "junkies". ha. kid was whacked and still is today. dope and benzo; it will do that to you.
 
Half a gram of dope. Ounce and a half of some Rascal OG Kush. Got my friend an 8ball of some RIDICULOUS coke and made him share. House/dog sitting a baby pitbull for my brother so I'm sitting here, rolling spliffs, nodding off, and playing with a pitbull while blasting some psy trance. Yep, it's Friday lol.

I also realize that my dream job would be to open a marijuana dispensary. Every week I have some sort of ridiculous medical strain and I get it dirt cheap lol
 
It's kinda hard when I live in ny, a non medical state, and I have a tendency to smoke the majority of my product. This Rascal OG is fucking delicious lol
 
^I was under the impression you would need to be the one growing it to sell it out of a medical MJ dispensary. I really have no idea if thats true or not, just though it was how the whole things worked.
 
dude, you'd have to shovel alot of people out before you get enough to feel "good". if someone would give me the dope first and then I'd shovel I'd be much faster and quicker. so maybe the dealers can spot you guys and have you come back after you make your $100 for the day.
Yeah that's why I've been working for the landlord dude for all these years...he always throws me $20 in advance so I can do the job feelin great...although sometimes he'd get pissed at me cause once in a while I would get totally fucked up if the shit was extra potent and be there noddin my ass off and getting nothing done, hahaha!!!
 
Well, I was back home for just a few days and managed to get ridiculously high while I was there....

My friend has been getting the same blank blue bags for over a year now...I was staying with my parents, who do not want me using any kind of drugs...

First day, he handed me a bundle and I did 5, 12 hours after taking suboxone...I got a heavy rush and was really high but on my feet. He had to leave and go do something with family that day so we couldn't just hang out there all day...I did the other 5 shortly after and I was fucked up...nodding mid-sentence while standing up, eventually even puked! it was really like I had barely ever touched dope. Thursday, I did another bundle of the same stuff and got high, but nothing like on Tuesday. Maybe you only get a few really mindblowing shots when you go back after being off for awhile.
 
^^^ ahh, the good ole' days. how much sub are you taking? I know you mentioned it on here a number of times and I remember it being a small dosage, right? I always thought 12HRS was enough regardless; esp. if it's been a while and you blast half the G away.

RazKal - dude, for someone who has been using dope for 25+ years, how the hell does 2 bags get you that fired up? or even nod? you should legit wake up and thank god daily that he somehow kept your tolerance at a minimum. if most could spend $20/day and blast away then I think the world may be addicted to heroin.
 
I'm on 3-4.5 mgs of sub a day, broken into 2-3 doses of 1.5mgs....

I think some people start using heroin carefully and respect it's potency as a drug....Their habits increase more slowly it seems...

Then, there's people who just do as much as they have sitting in front of them at any given time...If that doesn't kill you in the beginning, you end up with a ridiculous habit!

I could have done 5 bags and been plenty high, but I didn't want to drive with the other 5, so I just shot those too...A smart person would have just saved them for later. Shooting another five didn't get me feeling much higher, it just had me acting like an obviously doped up idiot! Just 2 days later, the same dope had me good and high, but not all fucked up...Within 2 weeks, I'm sure I'd be shooting 10 at a time like nothing...

When you have a habit, you really forget what a potent drug heroin really is. You get to a point where a few bong rips gets you higher than $100 worth of dope, it's just ridiculous at that point, not even worth it...but we keep going like that anyway!
 
^^^ ahh, the good ole' days. how much sub are you taking? I know you mentioned it on here a number of times and I remember it being a small dosage, right? I always thought 12HRS was enough regardless; esp. if it's been a while and you blast half the G away.

RazKal - dude, for someone who has been using dope for 25+ years, how the hell does 2 bags get you that fired up? or even nod? you should legit wake up and thank god daily that he somehow kept your tolerance at a minimum. if most could spend $20/day and blast away then I think the world may be addicted to heroin.

I could see getting off on 2 bags probably even keep the withdrawal at bay for most of the day. I am not trying to speak for him but I know 2 bags would hold me for a day at work. But by the end of the shift I would be getting anxious to get more dope.
 
wow, man. see, I was a diff. type of user. I used WHATEVER I bought, and I could only buy half G's and G's. and half G's would do ZERO for me and I'd feel "fine" but not high. the G would make me feel motivated and driven to work, do whatever. so 2 bags I cant imagine doing a damn thing aside from making me NOT SICK for a few hours. or maybe a day, who knows. I'd always shoot 10 bags at once. or sometimes 5 and 5 an hour later.

when I'd buy 3G for 2G price I'd shoot a G at 8AM - G 1PM and G 6PM - by 9PM my nod would be on like FUCKING DONKEY KONG! jesus. wow was I the happiest man on earth at that time laid out just watching whatever feeling like a god. man, its sick to even say this as I sit here sober now, but I do remember those somewhat "better" times. but those would cost me $200+ at times, so it killed my bank account, my life, my everything. so maybe that once in a while nod was not enough. most of the time I used I couldnt get 3 for 2 deal so I'd be buying 1 bundle a day and blast at once and just wait till next morning to buy another. that was a steady daily habit and id come up w/ ways to get money if I had zero. some days 2Gs if I had extra cash.

I feel some people get high on just the shot alone; I never cared for the shot; it was the DOPE I cared for. ha.
 
I'm on 3-4.5 mgs of sub a day, broken into 2-3 doses of 1.5mgs....

I think some people start using heroin carefully and respect it's potency as a drug....Their habits increase more slowly it seems...

Then, there's people who just do as much as they have sitting in front of them at any given time...If that doesn't kill you in the beginning, you end up with a ridiculous habit!

I could have done 5 bags and been plenty high, but I didn't want to drive with the other 5, so I just shot those too...A smart person would have just saved them for later. Shooting another five didn't get me feeling much higher, it just had me acting like an obviously doped up idiot! Just 2 days later, the same dope had me good and high, but not all fucked up...Within 2 weeks, I'm sure I'd be shooting 10 at a time like nothing...

When you have a habit, you really forget what a potent drug heroin really is. You get to a point where a few bong rips gets you higher than $100 worth of dope, it's just ridiculous at that point, not even worth it...but we keep going like that anyway!

I just dont trust myself w/ going back and giving it a "try" for a day. but youre right, its sad when a bong hits gets you HIGHER than your MAX DOPE for the day. used to spend $100 myself just to live a "normal" day. $200 for a good day. $300 for best day ever (but that does not happen often; maybe once or twice a month depending on person/deal).
 
Bostonbrown I am glad you are on a Maintinace program. Going the way you were you probably wouldn't be around to retire. I never shot the dope but have watched my buddy do it enough times to know I don't want to. I understand your previous post now about not getting anything off 2 bags.
 
You can't really compare 2 bags to its weight in grams if we're talking about New England, where its mostly grams and half grams. I was doing two grams a day for
years, but I'd take a hit on the weight and buy bundles because the dope was better.

Theres dope in Philly where 2or3 bags is like doing a half gram of new england dope.

I was using before the switch, and there's a big difference.
 
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