dodgey speed

[ballistic]

Hi, years ago, I had some great speed, you could keep dabbing it, you'd be hi, you'd be up all night, etc etc, and it was like slightly granular powder.
I recently got two wraps off a guy at work who's supposedly a hard user, and it was absolutely shit. You get a little buzz, but you feel tired a couple of hours later, and if you do more to keep you up, it gives you a stompping headache. This stuff is damp and mankee. What have I got? or is it 'cas I'm practically an alcoholic nowdays?
p.s. hi slayer man! my 1st post here, nice to see ya!

 

[SpeedLimit55]

My initial reaction is that you were used to getting Crystal Meth and you're now getting 'Crank'...in other words the quality you're getting now is not nearly as what you were used to.

 

[SpeedLimit55]

-and-
Is the price for this speed any cheaper than you paid before?

 

[ballistic]

no about the same, although i expected it to be cheaper as prices have come down in this part of England.
It was about 40 quid for 4g.

 

[Ky0Di3 M3TH0D]

Sound like some washed shitty crank.. Crank around here will keep you up longer than crystal, but crystal is the only thing that most people do becouse of how shitty crank makes you feel..
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[MountainBreeze]

Please pleases please can we hava a new rule here. Speed is a slang term, do not use it it has different meanings in different places. This geezer is from the UK where speed is amphetemine sulphate, street speed in the UK is the most cut drug on the street we are talking 90% cut and 10% drug.
I am sure all the answers are correct for the US but very wrong in the UK.
As to your question

Originally posted by ballistic:
who's supposedly a hard user

Who says? he does? Just sounds like he got crap and you had better stuff before. Personaly i would leave UK speed [amphetamine sulphate] alone. Either try and find meth or do coke instead

 

[Harry Redknapp]

A note on UK speed - the quality varies GREATLY.
I've done a lot of speed over the years. Sometimes you'll get stuff that you can smell through the bag in your pocket - a gram split four ways is enough to stay awake all weekend.
Sometimes you buy utter shit, and find you need two grams to keep you going all night.
That's just the way it is - get used to it.
Still - at a hundred pounds an ounce, you can't really complain can you???

 

[PhreeX]

Can anyone answer the question as to why it's so ass-backwards overseas? You guys can get a gram of pure MDMA for like $6 but can't get anything better then 2% amphetamine for $150 a line.... wtf?
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[JB]

Simply because people have become used to buying speed in g. not mg. If your dealer gave the average user 100mg of pure dl-amphetamine rather 1g of 90% cut speed they would think they where getting scamed. Sad but true. I think a lot of people also like doing lines like this
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even if they contain the same amount of active ingrediant.

 

[MzKzM]

Situation around here (Holland): 1 gram of 10-20% amphetamine goes for about $6 to $10.
Pills containing 100-150mg of MDMA cost $4, $200 for 100 of them. 1 gr of MDMA-powder goes for $25 to $35.

 

[voodookid]

i hate australia, why do we have to pay so much?
8ball of base [3.5g 30-50% cut anphetamines] costs, at cheapest, AUS$150, thats like US$70. MDMA powder goes for like AUS$40-50 for a cap (bout 200mg?)
Anyway back to tha question, if UK speed [amph] is anything like aussie amphetamines quality between dealers varies heaps. I acually had the exact same thing happen to me recently. Iused to get really good speed from a guy but then he gave up the "job" so i cut down heaps. I got some stuff from a guy recently who said he was "hard core" into it but it was actually utter shit stuff.
some people just have no idea.
[This message has been edited by voodookid (edited 07 September 2001).]