Drug culture in Lagos Nigeria -- Insights?

[globalcitizen]

Hi,

I'm new and I was hoping some wise soul could drop some knowledge. I'm thinking about moving to Lagos, Nigeria (I've been there before and it could be a great experience) and I'm curious about the drug culture there. I know (from experience) that marijuana is easily accessible there, but are other drugs tolerated/common? Do Lagosians experiment with MDMA or LSD (or anything else for that matter), or is it just pot?

 

[Mental Kenny]

Lagos sounds a bit intense as a city to move to, I'm sure there's tons of coke and heroin as it's a transit point for shipments to Europe, I used to have a work mate who at a time was on a very lucrative contract in West Africa, in Guinea-Bissau I think but not sure, anyway he said it was flooded with extremely decent coke, like far better than anything he had ever had in Europe.

Psychedelics I don't think will be available, but you never know, at the end of the day it's a city with more than ten million people, so I'm sure that if you get involved in the right social cycles you can probably source whatever you want.

What exactly are you planning on doing there? I mean job wise, what's bringing you there?

 

[opiaterock]

Yeah i'd be very interested in the answer to MKs last question? What line of work allows you to re-locate to Nigeria? I guess something to do with oil or a service / manufacturing job that is tied to the oil industry... but Lagos looks like an absolutely intense as K put it city, I think it is a fair bit more than 10 million aswell MK if you were to include the metro. area - it looks absolutely massive.

I'd love to go to somewhere in Africa too but Lagos sounds crazy.. Although my choice was always Kenya which I thought was pretty safe and look what is happening there now (though it was Mombassa that interested me not Nairobi) - I think East Africa is more volatile at the minute because of the fundamentalist muslim terrorists who operate out of Somalia

There was actually a thread on here about drugs in differnt countries and they said that Kenya & to a slightly lesser extent Tanzania was one of the cheapest places to buy good quality smack outside of Aghanistan or Pakistan - it was something crazy like well over a gram for ten euro. Coke was also apparently available in East Africa but was slightly more expensive than in West Africa which I suppose would include Nigeria..

.. basically what the guy said was that coke and gear were widely available but -

West Africa - Coke extremely cheap, heroin relatively cheap
East Africa - Coke relatively cheap, heroin extremely cheap

I'll try to find the thread... also bare in mind alot of Nigeria is muslim they might be stricter on drugs in different areas

 

[opiaterock]

Here... wasn't BL was actually drugs-forum.com

http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=180996

"So first on the list of destinations is Kenya. H is cheap, very cheap, Tons ofgram of untouched afghani, same condition it leaves refinary goes for pretty much same price as it does in Afghanistan, it is everywhere in kenya, Mombassa on every corner.

There are some security issues, but certainly it's safer than the warzones!

Very nice beaches there, some lovely islands (careful near Somali border), and also mount kenya game reserve.

Living there is dirt cheap, internal travel and lodgings cheap, food cheap. H, erm cheap.

Also there is cheap coke there, not as cheap as the H but cheap.

Tanzania next door is also very cheap, but not as cheap.

Also not mentioned on here as far as I can see is west coat Afrika, Nigeria and Ghana, coke and H readily available and very cheap, similar to kenya prices but reversed, coke being cheaper than H on that coast due to proximity to source.

There is a Kenyan Mafia that speciazes in H with a sideline in coke. The Heroin is increasingly targeting European markets, kenyans control most movement of H to South Afrika.

Nigerian Mafia have been operating worldwide for years, there have huge expat dealing networks in hundreds of cities worldwide, however most stuff is trafficked via lagos due to the level of corruption making it easy to get through security with no risk. So there are huge stockpiles in nigeria from the various gangs before it is sente out across the world.

With all the hanging around it has obviously ended up in a large home market.

So for the same reasons both coastlines of afrika have very cheap drugs in urban areas.

Coke is everywhere on the west coast, but for cheap H, east coast is best with Kenya followed by tanzania being the cheapest and most available respectively.

Read more: http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=180996#ixzz2flsR0Sti"

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

Guinea-Bissau is a narco-state isn't it? It's run by cocaine.

Beginning around 2005, drug traffickers based in Latin America began to use Guinea-Bissau, along with several neighboring West African nations, as a transshipment point to Europe for cocaine.[36] The nation was described by a United Nations official as being at risk for becoming a "narco-state". The government and the military have done little to stop drug trafficking, which has increased since the 2012 coup d'état

 

[opiaterock]

Guinea-Bissau is a narco-state isn't it? It's run by cocaine.

Yeah I read long ass article on it recently can't remember for the life of me what site it was on though possible the Guardian.. basically a massive amount of cocaine trafficked to Europe if not the majority is shipped from northern Colombia and Venezuela to Guinnea-Bissau before it's moved on.. the country is full of Colombian gangsters who have so much money for that country that they aren't touched, the government is very weak and suspectible to bribery - even by African standards.

 

[opiaterock]

Yeah it was an old in the Guardian from 2008, here's the link and a comedic quote -

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/09/drugstrade

"Guinea Bissau's cocaine Calvary began three years ago when fishermen on one island found packages of white powder washed up on the beach. They had no idea what the mysterious substance was. 'At first, they took the drug and they put it on their bodies during traditional ceremonies," recalls local journalist Alberto Dabo. 'Then they put it on their crops. All their crops died because of that drug. They even used it to mark out a football pitch'.

Here are some newer ones on Guinea-Bissau that I must read tomorrow -

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/opinion/narco-states-africas-next-menace.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international...ican-hub-of-cocaine-trafficking-a-887306.html

 

[globalcitizen]

Yeah, Lagos is actually closer to 20 million. But the thing about these massive cities in the developing world is that no one really knows how big they are, since counting quite the challenge.

To answer your (shared) question, I'm going to work with a retail company. Lagos may be a somewhat dodgey, but they're a growing middle class there too.

Anyway, I think MT hit it on the head--if I find the right circles then I'm bound to be able to source whatever I want. I'll just have to keep my ears open!

 

[Mental Kenny]

Social circle is key, I managed to source exotic chems in hilltop villages with a few thousand souls in rural France and Italy, only by meeting local druggies, while with no contacts in big cities sometimes you struggle to even find the basics.