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I'm with you on wanting to learn about heroin's history in Mexico. It seems as though you could read about heroin in every other country, and area, except Mexico. Weird.
^^That was hugely appreciated! You are far more useful w/ a computer than I...meaning that I would love to be able to transfer stories like that to a site once in awhile. Meanwhile, here's something i think you'll find interesting....
While i was still indulging with the needle & dope, I came across a few mexicans who were selling tar at all times, yet on these days, the tar was in powder form. Right away, I think oh hell no, I'm getting burned, right? In his broken English he's saying "no! Is the same! Is the same!", and I'm like-bullshit. So dude takes the powder, and starts blowing warm air from his mouth on it, and by god, little by little I swear it started turning into tar! It was like it had yet to go thru some type of "last proccessing" or some shit. Eventually, after he blew enough warm air on it, he had a sale:D.
So, what do you think is up with that??? Now you have even more reason to research and wonder....yes? same here, but it sounds like a relatively fun challenge to see what an Advanced Google might turn up. You never know. I feel you'll find alot more avenues than me, though, and please share them if you do, ok? Doesn't have to be on here, you can PM me if you'd like/rather, and I honestly am not trying to make you work, just thinking it has caught your interest as much as mine. Thanks for all... Christopher
I have no idea, other than tar that was beginning to dry out, and blowing on it produced enough moisture to 're-solidfy' it. I always dealt in white and brown powder dope (eastcoast). One time during a brutally humid summer, one dealers stuff wasn't sealed properly, and the brown powder dope absorbed moisture from the ultra-muggy humid air, turning into a sticky, ugly mess. Fortunately this happened in the bag it was in pre-bagging, it seems that the thicker, wet dope threw off his normal per-bag amount in favor of more H per bag than usual.
I'm with you on wanting to learn about heroin's history in Mexico. It seems as though you could read about heroin in every other country, and area, except Mexico. Weird.
Well, in Junky Burroughs confirms that brown powder Mexican Heroin was being sold in the mid-'40s after WWII in NYC. The social context of the time is that up until the Harrison Act's amendment, Opium smoking was the dominant "street dope" as far as illicit opioids and RoA. Lead up to WWII, Opium supplies get shut off. Opium smokers either quit, switch to IV Heroin, or to a Rx opioid (at that time mainly Dilaudid and Morphine). During the war almost no Heroin was to be had, no Opium either, so the Heroin addicts (and former Opium addicts) made do with pharmaceuticals. 1945 trade lines re-open, only now no more Opium, only illicit smack. China shut down and then legitimized the Opium industry into making pharmaceuticals- so Chinese Opium was no longer being sent to the US, and was no longer being made into Heroin to be shipped to the US. This was a few years before Lucky Luciano and former members of the Vichy gov't in France established the Turkey poppies -> Corsican/French/Sicilian smack labs -> streets of NYC Heroin racket that dominated the American/NYC smack epidemic of the 1950s-1970s.
It seems Mexico was the primary producer of illicit Heroin in the US between the end of WWII in '45 and the beginning of the 'French Connection'.
Family-based cooking and smuggling crews grow poppies, cook Heroin and smuggle it to the US, brown powder dope. It seems the remnents of this never went away, and still makes up for a small portion of the US smack market (certain gov't thinktanks and agencies list Mexican powder alongside tar in the description of global smack producer nations and methods). Burroughs comments that Chinese farmers were brought to Mexico to plant and raise the poppy crops initially- which seems to fit given the legal/social changes going on in China in the time frame.
But this is just a guess. It sucks that more information isn't readily available.
NJ heroin is really pure, according to a article i read a little while back it satted that you cant buy better and purer dope anyplace in the world than you can buy i good old New Jersey, NJ is the 1st stop for the heroin before it travels aboard to the other states so it goes through less hand hence the better product, It is much less cut and diluted than any other place in the USA,![]()
NJ heroin is really pure, according to a article i read a little while back it satted that you cant buy better and purer dope anyplace in the world than you can buy i good old New Jersey, NJ is the 1st stop for the heroin before it travels aboard to the other states so it goes through less hand hence the better product, It is much less cut and diluted than any other place in the USA,
^^ I've never been to Jersey, so no way can I say or agree/disagree. But there is one thing I find "interesting", let's say. That's how I can't recall who exactly, but someone recently posting right here and IS from Jersey said they
were/are doing 15-20 bags daily, and more if they had the $ (I think is how it went?). My first thought was "why are you having to do so much fucking dope, if it is so damn good?". Hey, maybe this person truly is that strung out, and can handle 20+ bindles a day of "the purest dope in the country", but I found it to be suspect, that's all. Anyone else?????
I have no idea, other than tar that was beginning to dry out, and blowing on it produced enough moisture to 're-solidfy' it. I always dealt in white and brown powder dope (eastcoast). One time during a brutally humid summer, one dealers stuff wasn't sealed properly, and the brown powder dope absorbed moisture from the ultra-muggy humid air, turning into a sticky, ugly mess. Fortunately this happened in the bag it was in pre-bagging, it seems that the thicker, wet dope threw off his normal per-bag amount in favor of more H per bag than usual.
Well, in Junky Burroughs confirms that brown powder Mexican Heroin was being sold in the mid-'40s after WWII in NYC. The social context of the time is that up until the Harrison Act's amendment, Opium smoking was the dominant "street dope" as far as illicit opioids and RoA. Lead up to WWII, Opium supplies get shut off. Opium smokers either quit, switch to IV Heroin, or to a Rx opioid (at that time mainly Dilaudid and Morphine). During the war almost no Heroin was to be had, no Opium either, so the Heroin addicts (and former Opium addicts) made do with pharmaceuticals. 1945 trade lines re-open, only now no more Opium, only illicit smack. China shut down and then legitimized the Opium industry into making pharmaceuticals- so Chinese Opium was no longer being sent to the US, and was no longer being made into Heroin to be shipped to the US. This was a few years before Lucky Luciano and former members of the Vichy gov't in France established the Turkey poppies -> Corsican/French/Sicilian smack labs -> streets of NYC Heroin racket that dominated the American/NYC smack epidemic of the 1950s-1970s.
It seems Mexico was the primary producer of illicit Heroin in the US between the end of WWII in '45 and the beginning of the 'French Connection'.
Family-based cooking and smuggling crews grow poppies, cook Heroin and smuggle it to the US, brown powder dope. It seems the remnents of this never went away, and still makes up for a small portion of the US smack market (certain gov't thinktanks and agencies list Mexican powder alongside tar in the description of global smack producer nations and methods). Burroughs comments that Chinese farmers were brought to Mexico to plant and raise the poppy crops initially- which seems to fit given the legal/social changes going on in China in the time frame.
But this is just a guess. It sucks that more information isn't readily available.
^^Everything you said is exactly how I too have read and learned about it over the years. From Junky and Burroughs, to the Harrison Act, the Chinese, etc. etc. What more can I say? All I know is that now, when younger people read History, the one thing they will (possibly?) read about that we didn't, is the huge-ass gang wars happening in Mexico to try to establish the largest and most profitable cartel. And I believe it's gonna get even worse, before it gets better anytime soon. You?
Here's a question...with the GRIP of Afghani dope being produced and supplied by the Taliban, I mean the sheer amounts(!) being grown & produced today, isn't it reasonable to think that the mexicans are actually moving THAT dope rather than their own, over here to the states now?? And something else, at least for me, is that I have never personally seen "poppies" growing in Mexico, in pictures or whatever. Seen plenty of the Afghan poppies in the news and in mags, but never once in Mexico. AND, no one has ever announced poppy erradication in Mexico...have they????
Before heroin...
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Heroin....
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I look at the pictures of me when I was on dope and it makes me want to cry!Just say no! Seriously...
NOTE- I AM NOW 3 MONTHS CLEAN!!!![]()
Maybe its just me man, but quoting the DEA isn't always a surefire way to get your facts straight about drugs...
NJ heroin is really pure, according to a article i read a little while back it satted that you cant buy better and purer dope anyplace in the world than you can buy i good old New Jersey, NJ is the 1st stop for the heroin before it travels aboard to the other states so it goes through less hand hence the better product, It is much less cut and diluted than any other place in the USA,![]()
Sorry.
I can't see any difference - just different lighting.