spaceyourbass said:
I was arguing about this in another thread - drugs being illegal leads to much higher prices, which theoretically leads to less drug use among the population. There are some statistics out there showing this, I wish I didn't sell my Psychology 503 Drug USe and Effects book.
I used to spend so much fuckin money on painkillers. That was when it was 3 stones for a 7.5 hydrocodone, 4 stones for a 10 mg hydro, and just 10 stones (!!) for a 100 mg morphine, and other good prices.
Eventually the dealers went up to 5 rocks across the board for hydro and oxy, and 20 for a morphine, and I just can't pay that much for opiates anymore. Coke is another thing I never got into because of the price.
I honestly think that if we as drug buyers weren't so fucking greedy, the prices would stay low.
Sorry for the multi posts, but its been a long night, lol. As far as drugs an prices go - use the supply and demand theory. Prices are never going to get staggeringly low. Try to think of it like the diamond market. Diamonds are fucking expensive as shit. The reason they are expensive, is because people are led to believe that they are a rare commodity, but in reality, they are far from that. Take the DeBeers diamond company(monopoly practically) for instance. They have control over something like, correct me if im wrong, but like 75-80% of the worlds diamonds that are purchased mainly in the united states. Thing is, even though they have all these diamonds, they only release about 20% of what they actually have into the market. They do this to control the flow of the diamonds, so it seems like they are rare so that the price will never go down, but rather go up every couple of years.
The truth is, diamonds are getting to the point to where they are almost less precious than gold, but we will never see that reflect in the prices, because DeBeers will never ever flood the market with their product, ever. They keep the supply low, so the demand will always soar. The illusion of scarceness is what keeps prices up, no matter what the product may be, and the same goes with drugs. If the market were flooded with acid, and it were easier to get than any other drug on the planet, because there is so much of it around its rediculous, the price would shoot way the fuck down. Same goes for any other drug too. If the drug supply skyrocketed one day, and everyone and their mother started selling dope, people would start to compete for our business. Eventually, it would get so crazy, that we would be able to get a gram of some bomb ass H for like 20 bucks all day long, because on every block there would be 50 fuckin dope dealers, lol.
So drug kingpins will always keep the supply low, and demand up, no matter what the drug is. Even though there are millions of kilos of whatever the drug may be pushed into the United states per month, its still just a fraction of the amount of drugs they could be smuggling into the country. Even though they are greedy and wanna make as much money as possible, they still need to use their heads, and not push too much over to our side, otherwise it wont be so scarce, and the prices will drop. Low supply means high demand, and THAT means us as drug addicts will forever be fucked, and spending way beyond our means to get high. blah - it sucks.
i don't have any "hookups" so to say so it's always the flat prices around my area if i want any bomb chrondaliza spice.
No but seriously, I don't know when the day will come where I won't be able to find Lucy at all anymore...probably once I get out of college...but because of its (relative) rarity, I want to buy a whole helluva lot at one time to keep a personal stash (never would sell LSD, give it away to my friends maybe). But, lo and behold, it seems like whenever the chance comes up I'm always freshly broke, have spent the "acid cash" I put away in my drawer, and am fucked on cash for a while.
