Oh! It was you! Fantastic. I remember scoring for a couple of days in Oct 2010 (I think it was then) and every time it was this weird, horrible gear that did nothing. Ran really fast on the foil, left no trail, tasted chemically like tcp. Every dealer had it and I had no idea what was going on. Out of desperation I just tapped "Weird tasting smack" into google and your thread came up at the top! It was then I found out that my problems were more than just an isolated event and that you, and lots of others, had been having the same problems. I think at that time, though, there was still only about six or seven of us that had posted about it within a couple of weeks there were 10 of thousand of posts about it, on here and on other sites/forums. Wasn't it a weird time? I've been doing gear well over 20 years so I've seen droughts come and go and I'd never experienced anything like this. I've told people who stopped using before the 2010+ drought and they always say and think the same: "well, I could have scored". And I'm like, "no you fucking couldn't, no body could score. Even the guys with dozens and dozens of numbers, that ones you go to when you're really stuck yourself, they couldn't find a dealer with anything other than a load of old bash".
I had enough after a few weeks of it and had a chance to head over to the states so I took it. I scored over there easy enough although they were having problems themselves with the new Oxy formula which you can't crush and snort/fix like the old Oxys. And their black tar is weak compared to out good skag. Mind you, anything was fixing me at that stage because the gear had been so crap in the UK. I came back a month or so later and I was expecting the drought to be over and it was *still* the same, worse if anything. I was spending £100-£200 a day on bags of gears that did *nothing* but I couldn't stop the white (which I usually never do without dark) and I was getting crazier and crazier. It was like I knew the chances were that I was just going to buy more bash but I couldn't stop myself. I couldn't get a script for anything other than DFs and Librium, for complex reasons, and I was sick all the time, in spite of the money I was spending! In the end I thought, fuck it, being clean has got to better than this shit. So I stopped using and stayed clean for a couple of years. I got the urge to have a snowball after seeing someone shoot one up in a documentary I was watching. Man, that image really got inside me... I couldn't shake it and within the week I'd decided that I *had* to have a snowball. I hunted down an old 'mate' (actually wanker) who I got to score for me and you know what? The gear was good. The white was OK too. I didn't shoot a snowball because I lost my bottle at the last minute (or saw sense, whichever way you want to look at it). But I thought, "the gear is back to normal". When I post the post above which you quoted, I thought that it was all cushty again. Not so: you're totally right, aren't you? The first couple of bags were good, light brown hard packed rock smack. Then I got some which was like tar, but crap. The last few days it's been this dark brown, slightly damp powder which sorts you out but I have to smoke 0.5 fast to get a nod, which isn't right; I've only been back on about 10 days and have hardly got a habit.
So... I don't know why I writing this. I think I just want some company. My wife and kids don't know I've started using again, nor do any friends or other family. No one knows, apart from you, and you don't know me. Actually, the one wanker that I'm scoring through knows and he's the only one. It feels weird. I've got used to being open about what I do and I don't really like all the secrecy. Was it worth it, going back on the gear? I was tempted back in by the thought of that snowball but in the end I lost my bottle when I thought about the possible OD that might follow. I love my kids and I don't want them to have to live without a dad. So I've kind of chucked it all in for the sake of a few smokes of crappy dark and mediocre white... I feel a bit short changed, might stop again. Wonder if I can?
Loads of people down South have thrown the towel in because of this drought but in the last two years I've also never known so many people I know to die of drugs related deaths. It's weird: I'm not sure why it's happening. They seem to be dropping like flies. Sad.
Does anyone who used through the drought actually think it's totally back to normal in their town?
F.U.B.A.R.: really thanks for posting that original 'drought with nasty H' thread! I would have gone totally nuts if it weren't for finding that thread at the time!
) I am going to take myself on a date to see django on my day off work...
I thought that the methadone wasn't holding me, I ALWAYS feel awful! 
Therefore it was just a 'habit', rather than an addiction to gear. The big drought brought me to my senses and I realised I was just wasting money for the sake of it. Now I want to become a full time pot smoker again, because it really is the BEST drug out there for full time use...
