Drug Officials Note Cocaine Shortage

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As far as bud, totally. In the town I went to school in, it was rare to find middies or schwag. Your options were either beasters (the standard 'kind bud') or 'headies'. Kind bud went for $200/zip (if you had friends, otherwise 220-240ish), but the headies went for almost 400/zip (ounce, sorry). Those people were more of a 'connaisseur' crowd.

But for the 'harder' stuff like coke/heroin, it was all a numbers game, and people played very rationally about it. They would pay more for fishscale coke if the prices on teh cut stuff weren't proper. Sometimes it woudl be more economical to buy the crappier stuff, just because it was cheaper. It all came down to $/unit of actual coke.

On the bud issue, however, I never was able to understand that. headies bud could cost literally twice as much as regular kind bud, but was nowhere near twice as strong. I cringed when I had to drop $400 for an oz of that stuff, because, although I preferred it to regular beasters, it wasn't twice as good.


Oh, and whoever said that drug demand IS NOT highly ineleastic, that is incorrect. Drug demand is inelastic, period. Just because it is inelastic DOES NOT mean that people will use less if the prices rise. It simply means that they are not nearly as sensitive to prices of their drugs (especially harder drugs) as they are other commodities.
 
9mmCensor said:
It got taken away. I am afraid of getting banned if I put a new one up.
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Seriously? What the hell was wrong with it? I've been hearing about new rules/policies here, maybe someone can link me to pertinent shit.

And 9mm, if you wouldn't mind pm'ing me I'm a lil curious about why you were banned, although I'm not holding my breath for your response (I believe I pm'd you a while back about a story of yours I read but got no response back from you :\ ).
 
Up north, the quality has gone up, prices have gone down, its basically the opposite of this report up here. Prices still aren't low enough for me to want to do cocaine, anything that costs me $50 to $100 for the night is a bit much, its good once in a while.
 
bingalpaws said:
At retail, I've seen the opposite of what you say. At retail levels, I've seen people balk at the idea of dropping $80/gram for fishscale, yet have no problem paying $50-60 for a 'fiddy bag' which is usually ~0.8 and cut to hell.
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Wow, didn't realize the prices were that stable. I remember gram bags of fishscale going for $90 10 years ago. And alot of people wouldn't pay that since they could get an 8ball for $120. I tried both types, and the fishscale was FAR superior. It just seems today, that people have a "quantity over quality" mindset. I don't. I'd rather have good drugs than a large amount of shitty drugs.

Anyways, I do not agree that there is a shortage of coke. It just sounds like a line propagated by the DEA to make the American public think they are doing their job. In fact, drugs are easier to get now than they used to be. Hell, I can get anything I would ever want through the internet....except weed and coke, and those are easily found anyways.

The drug war in this country is by far the most ridiculous expenditure of tax money that I have ever seen. It's a war we CANNOT win. It's just a way to funnel money to extraneous government organisations.

Haven't we learned anything at all from prohibition back in the 20s?
 
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This is nothing more than bullshit to quell the sheeps ears, can still pi ck up gator in weight..shit,raw if anything is cheaper, 550..2000..etc..But this is Florida baby funk will never cease..

Re-rock? lol..need an oz and got 275? lol..this is pure bullshit fellas..


You guys are tossing out some serious batshit crzy prices, 850-1000+ for an oz? Well i guess in the end it's all the same, you pay more...they(customers) pay more, works out the same only if your immediate area is payin those those prices.
 
uhhh, sounds like you're typing while you're on crack. Are you disagreeing with prices of 850-1000/oz for coke? That shit is pretty standard in any area I've ever witnessed. Up north I would see people buy regular ounces (read: cut up) for *maybe* 700 at the absolute cheapest, and that would be cut to hell. Fishscale (read: damn pure, rocked, pearlescent tint) would go, or so I've seen, for about $900-1100 depending on how the scene was (busts, shortages, etc).

Who said anything about 275 ounces? That's just laughable. Maybe in columbia dude, but you're not getting ounces of coke for 275. period. (And no, buying a kilo or more and then dividing it out to ounces to prove 275 isn't an acceptable response... nor would it be a wise one to give on a public board lol).
 
Zagenth said:
Wow, didn't realize the prices were that stable. I remember gram bags of fishscale going for $90 10 years ago. And alot of people wouldn't pay that since they could get an 8ball for $120. I tried both types, and the fishscale was FAR superior. It just seems today, that people have a "quantity over quality" mindset. I don't. I'd rather have good drugs than a large amount of shitty drugs.
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That's pretty much what it was up north (i'm down south now). I lived in a college apartment complex, and as most college students can attest, you end up knowing quite a few dealers. One of the main guys would have fishscale (again, pure fishscale, not rerocked crap. It'd be gummy, hard to work with, and pearlescent) going at $100/gram, and grams would weigh out perfectly. He also sold 'fifty bags' and '8 balls'. He told me he cut his 8 balls at 2.5:1 ratio of inositol:cocaine. He sold 8balls for $150. He cut his 'fiddy' bags up even worse than that. People would buy the 8balls and fiddy bags like they were going out of style, but few people were willing to pay $100 for a gram of the fishscale. It was so retarded, me and him would always laugh at how people would love to pay less for more, even though they knew they were actually paying more per gram of actual coke. Weird how that works.
 
bingalpaws said:
He cut his 'fiddy' bags up even worse than that. People would buy the 8balls and fiddy bags like they were going out of style, but few people were willing to pay $100 for a gram of the fishscale. It was so retarded, me and him would always laugh at how people would love to pay less for more, even though they knew they were actually paying more per gram of actual coke. Weird how that works.
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Exactly what I meant when I said that it is hard to sell drugs at markup price. While there are a few people who are smart enough to pay more for higher quality, the majority of retail-end users go for higher quantity, and hardly care about quality. Most people I know would rather brag about how they did an 8-ball in a night, or ate 10 E pills, then actually get high quality drugs.
 
in alot of small towns near me in SW VA theres been no coke around lately. very hard to get.
 
bingalpaws said:
uhhh, sounds like you're typing while you're on crack. Are you disagreeing with prices of 850-1000/oz for coke? That shit is pretty standard in any area I've ever witnessed. Up north I would see people buy regular ounces (read: cut up) for *maybe* 700 at the absolute cheapest, and that would be cut to hell. Fishscale (read: damn pure, rocked, pearlescent tint) would go, or so I've seen, for about $900-1100 depending on how the scene was (busts, shortages, etc).

Who said anything about 275 ounces? That's just laughable. Maybe in columbia dude, but you're not getting ounces of coke for 275. period. (And no, buying a kilo or more and then dividing it out to ounces to prove 275 isn't an acceptable response... nor would it be a wise one to give on a public board lol).
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In Bogotá, You can cop a key for 700-800, Like I said jone, 900-1000 for an ounce is batshit crazy, UNLESSS.. unless your customers are paying 200 ball, Then everything is obviously leveling out...Down here its galore, 80-100 balls,like i said raw fished up gator goes 500-650nd re rock flows all day long for 275 an o you can cop the quap for the g..this isnt the north, its the sourthern most tip of the country..verify yourself with a plane ticket.

Funny you should mention cook..i hear the microwave beeping.
 
John Waters to any and all poor, impoverished, and hungry South or Central American persons: "Twelve available cocaine markets in need!"
 
bingalpaws said:
Anyone from LA or NY want to verify that? Has anyone really heard of prices changing?
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Prices are up a little bit. For a while a good coke could not be had in NY where I live to due a large bust in the city. Fucked a lot of peoples shit up.
 
MushRomTiP said:
In Bogotá, You can cop a key for 700-800, Like I said jone, 900-1000 for an ounce is batshit crazy, UNLESSS.. unless your customers are paying 200 ball, Then everything is obviously leveling out
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In Bogata? What does that have to do with the price of tea in china? The logistics involved in moving from bogata to america make that fact useless. We all know the markup is from getting it to the country, and the risk dealers take in our country.

1000 for an ounce of fishscale couldn't be that bad, this kid seemed to be doing well. Like I said, if he cuts 2.5:1 he'll have 3.5oz total weight once he's done cutting, which is 28 eightballs, which were 150 when I last heard, so that's 4200 gross, 3200 net, from just a 1,000 investment. By any investment counts I've ever heard, he was making pretty good returns. And that's just running the numbers on 8balls - I know he sold tons of the small 'fifty' bags, which were under weight and higher cut, so his profit was even higher on those.
 
I'd like to know where he got his figures for Bogota from?

I recently posted figures from the 2007 WDR to dispute someone who said key's go for $10,000 in Colombia. Needless to say, key's weren't "700-800" in Bogota. Cocaine base was near that price though.

Also, you could rerock cocaine that still looks like fishscale. Just an fyi.
 
The purity has declined the past few months in the D/FW area of course the prices stay the same what kind of dealer wants to explain "A gram of average grade coke is now 50-60$ instead of 40 a half is 30$ etc. etc. when half of them are just trying to rip you off anyway.

It's a terrible market the dealers see the users as way to make a quick 100 when theyre gettin blow for 6-7 hundred an O and cutting it into one and a half adding a 2 or 3 hundred dollar mark up then they go to the mall and buy new clothes, ballers!

The dealers in the Fort Worth area have no class and to get actual good blow you have to really know someone, usually big time dealers have the mellow yellow when the small time wanna be thugs and low lives have the shit whiter than their average customer.
 
The prices havent went up where i live (midwest, near detroit) but i have noticed more and more and more ppl doin heroin, ppl that would normally be gettin coke. There is somewhat a shortage, i guess, i just thought the dealer was lazy, it is hard to get ahold of him, wouldn't here from about 2-3 of our connects for a few days at a time, then they'd call back out of nowhere. After readin this, it makes me think, maybe that's why they haven't been around, b/c their supply is short. But really i could careless about coke, it's just an afterthought to dope for me.
 
Detroit, muskegon, and Grand rapids are dry.

Detroit
800 - whipped up 24 Grm
900 - soft
23,000 for the whole thing

back in january we was
550 - oz soft
500 - oz whipped
14500 whole thing


grand rapids & ski town
900-950 - whipped up 24 grm
1000-1100 - soft
25,000 for the whole thing

before, was bout the same as detroit.
 
MushRomTiP said:
This is nothing more than bullshit to quell the sheeps ears, can still pi ck up gator in weight..shit,raw if anything is cheaper, 550..2000..etc..But this is Florida baby funk will never cease..

Re-rock? lol..need an oz and got 275? lol..this is pure bullshit fellas..


You guys are tossing out some serious batshit crzy prices, 850-1000+ for an oz? Well i guess in the end it's all the same, you pay more...they(customers) pay more, works out the same only if your immediate area is payin those those prices.
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You live in Fla. youre forgettin that point. Miami? We aint got miami up north in NJ, NY, etc. shit gonna cost more. yall like the capital of coke. and if you get that shit that much which is unlikely you sure as fuck aint on no message board talkin about it. Shiiit.

Anyways, i think its hilarious too phrozen cuz the artivle you posted is exactly what comes to mind. They just said coke is floodin the streets with high purity and low price and now they make up this bullshit...Mannn.....
 
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