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Just wanted to chime in here for anybody who is curious, but I recently was insane enough to go to Russia in April of 2015 to june of 2015, and score Heroin in Moscow. Also, I am an American originally making this even more dangerous and utterly, utterly stupid.

Whatever stories you heard about people selling OTC painkillers easily or poppy straw injections or wild poppies growing all over or people selling poppy tea at markets or whatever is almost all gone now. Cops have cracked down hardcore, and they can arrest you just if they feel like it. There are still some pharmacies that sell OTC codeine and syringes and Tramadol but they only sell to people they know. i was unable to get anything legally whatsoever. i only know they sell this stuff to people they know because friends told me.

I tried on the street to score numerous, numerous times - to no avail. I found out later why, and that is because Russia is now waging their own war on drugs, 1950's style and everyone or anyone can be a potential narc. it's like the USSR but this time instead of western spies they are looking for drugs.

I ended up scoring by accident due to a friend of a friend, and they directed me to the two most busted ass junkies i've ever seen in my life and i've been using hard drugs for 15 years. one junkie had almost all their teeth missing, sores all over her from banging krokodil, and was missing a leg from a bad injection. the other one was HIV positive and had hep C. she told me this openly. These were the people I was forced to score from.

the way that people are forced to do heroin buys or any drug buys for the most part now is, they have to go wire money to an account, and then wait for god knows how long before the dealer calls the and tells them where they dropped the drugs, then you get to go search for them. we did this, and the two junkies we were with started drinking to pass the time. it was 10 am. we were in public.

finally we got the call, and we headed to the stop, walking around for 2 hours looking for the drugs. we finally found them, and the whole time i wondered if i was going to get fucking GULAGED. any moment some snitch could call the cops on us just for looking weird. Russia has a strong snitch culture and no unreasonable search or seizure prohibition. They also will have male cops search females, even strip search them and you can't do anything about it. this didn't happen to me, but one of the junkies told us it happened to her.

finally - we found the drugs and headed back home by bus because no taxis would pick up the two broke ass junkies with me. on the bus, the hiv junkie started dancing drunkenly and singing about sucking dicks and swallowing cum. everyone stared at us on the bus like we were the scum of the earth.

finally, by a stroke of good luck we got back to their apartment with no police searching us, and they put down the BIGGEST fucking bag of smack i've ever seen - 3 grams of vinegary smelling light brown afghani gold. I paid 65 dollars for it. I gave them half, and the stuff was so potent, I overdosed that very night.

the heroin was frighteningly strong - so fucking strong that i could never achieve a buzz, only a flat out comatose state even with only an injection of a sprinkling of the stuff would send me into never never land. i gave the junkies i was with half the bag, and it still was enough to keep me constantly high for 5 days, and even then i ended up flushing what i had left because i was constantly on the verge of OD'ing and just had to stop - the shit was stronger than any other opiate i have ever had and ive had opana and all sorts of stuff like fentayl patches. ive most opiates available in the USA. this was stronger. it was almost worth the BS... but not quite. i decided to just dip out before i ran out of luck. Russia, like the USA is a police state. but Russian jails are scarier.

when i tried to score poppies, poppy seeds, codeine, or anything else but weed or hash (which i don't like) i constantly came up empty handed. everyone told me stories that sent me on wild goose chases and the poppy seeds i tried to buy at markets didn't "work".

also to make matters worse, i had the cops called on me after i threw away the dope, by some snitch who just didn't like that I "looked" high. they searched me and my girl but found nothing and let us go. this snitch by the way was drunk all day, every day. but no one cared, they only cared about drugs.

a few days after that, we got texts from friends telling us the HIV junkie OD'd several times, got busted by snitches, went to jail, and is now in the jail banging Krokodil. corrupt guards allow drugs inside Russian jail apparently. anyway... this whole experience was enough for me to say "enough" and just sit out my drug taking the rest of the time i was in Russia.

Russia ain't a country to do drugs in. not at fucking all.

now if you wanna get so fucking drunk you sleep on a sidewalk, no one will care. you can drink all day and no one will care. vodka is about 3 USD a bottle, and so i just switched to voddy because it was safer to drink. but that is Russia for you. drink all you want, but god forbid you take a few pills. i was lucky i did not die or go to prison or get deported.
 
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Estonia (borders Russia and Latvia and Finland)
weed, eu amphetamine (lots of it), cocaine, ghb, 3MF (3-methylfentanyl). no other opioids, 3mf is the only opioid available for the whole populace (1.3 mil). its the only country in the world with a drug that potent being used by IDU's. we have the highest drug death rate in the whole of Europe for the last 10 years or so.
 
It´s always trick to try to get drugs overseas, specially if you don´t speak the language.
It might be dangerous and you could be robbed. Or get what you didn´t pay for.
Some markets like Copenhagen or Amsterdam are more accepting and communication isn´t a problem.
Now if you are in Eastern Europe, things can get tricky if you get caught.
 
Honestly it's easy if you have cash in EE, you can bribe your way out fairly easy, and unlike USA cops they are not as skilled at detecting lies believe it or not. i speak decent Russian.
 
If you speak the language it´s a lot easier. Almost as if you were in another city in your country.
 
rokkinrollaa6 said:
Honestly it's easy if you have cash in EE, you can bribe your way out fairly easy, and unlike USA cops they are not as skilled at detecting lies believe it or not. i speak decent Russian.
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.ee isnt Russia, bro. its EU. the bribetaking is so 90s its laughable.
if were talking 50kg of 3-METHYLFENTANYL for 50.000.000€ then yeah ofc there are ppl to bribe, but not w/your petty little bs. cops are corrupt enough via criminal groups, they dont need your bribes :D
 
Awesome piece of dope writing.....I could feel the cold thrill of scoring in a hot zone. I visit SE Asia yearly....I've been on methadone for 20 years and Im well hooked up there. However in 2008 I came up with the super smart idea of going there to come off??? Yep...that's going to work. So for a month Im spending a great deal of morning hours hanging around: phnom penh, saigon, hanoi, sapa, laos looking shifty. It came through in all these places but I wouldn't recommend it as a holiday option. Vietnam has so many plainclothes cops but they generally leave the tourists alone. These days? Well its probably a lot easier. I read the UNODC reports and farmgate prices are way up and business is booming. Great thread.
 
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South France (near Toulouse):


cheap alcohol, strong beers.
Weed can be expensive if you want the good stuff but available. Hash quality may vary, it's all coming from Marocco through Spain, quite cheap and available.
Had some awesome coke scored in "ghetto" areas around Toulouse, kids are selling it. High price if you like to smoke it but it's worth it. If you don't pay the right price you will have heavily cut stuff.
Heroin is common where I live, you need good contacts for the good stuff. Codeine is OTC and cheap. Buprenorphine (Subutex, no Suboxone here) is everywhere and you can get it for free through programs as well as Methadone. Opium is there when Italians are coming to our parties.
Benzos are easily scripted by doctors, again for free. Usually oxazepam or xanax.
Ketamine was everywhere few years ago, we've been through a drought but it's coming back in free parties. Toulouse is the k capital of France (or it was at some point). It's coming from India, Pakistan and Africa and shitty stuff from Holland. MXE is available and sometimes sold as ket (we had ODs in parties, because are doing 0.5g lines thinking it's k, the dealer got killed) Everyone wants ket in free parties here... There is a crazy demand for it.
I am not doing XTC pills, MDxx or speed anymore, but I know that pills became expensive and bad quality. MD crystals are usually good quality and everywhere in parties. Same for speed which is cheap but can be cut if you don't know where to go, its Euro speed (base stinky stuff). I had some MDPV few weeks ago.
LSD quality may vary but usually good in free parties it's available as mushrooms or mescaline-like RCs, pretty cheap. DMT is rare but you can find it in parties.
No methamphetamine here (some have, but nobody really wants it). Nobody is using GHB/GBL around me but, I know some people do, but it’s not popular in techno parties.
I did a detox for free, thanks to the French health system.
In conclusion, if you wanna get fucked up, go in free parties, the techno scene is really strong here, there is many parties every week end, PM me if you want more infos.




Australia:


Alcohol and tobacco are so expensive, it’s ridiculous.
There is two types of weed there: hydro or bush, read high grade or low grade. Easily available in Melbourne and Sydney, correct price. No hash or if you luckily (rare) find some you will have to pay crazy money for few grams. In South Australia you can grow few plants at home I think. Laws for weed are okay in Victoria and New South Wales, they just give you a warning if you get caught with less of 15g, they give you a chance. In Queensland, laws about weed are more strict.
Meth is really popular and the quality is really good (I was very impressed) and expensive.
Speed is so expensive when you are coming from europe (about ten times more) but the quality is great.
I heard GHB is popular in Melbourne or Sydney, I’ve seen some in a new year free party in Melbourne (good memories)
Coke is pure shit and damn expensive, don't even think about it.
Heroin is rare and very expensive. Codeine is OTC but very expensive and they ask you questions when you want to get it.
You can have bupe programs but you have to pay for it, same as benzos.
Everything gets more expensive when you go up north ( weed price doubles in Cairns) or in the middle (Alice Springs). West coast is same as the north I think, never been there tho.
I had a Suboxone and Valium script there (no Subutex available), but I had to pay for it.
Psychs are available, few times I had good LSD for a good price (same as France, even a bit cheaper). Mushrooms are for free if you know where to go and when, shrooms caps available. I had really nice trips with, spending time on the beach with all the backpackers tripping balls, trying to flirt with the nice asian or EE girl you just met.
Had some bad XTC pills and they were expensive. Never hear about MD crystals, apparently it's often shitty analogs.
Ketamine is used, but really hard to find, and again, expensive. I heard it was often cut stuff as well. I luckily had nice asian connection which with I could get crystals of strong k for a nice price (cheaper than what I got in France), but it’s not “available” like it is in Europe for example.
LSA is growing everywhere up north, this stuff can be strong at the right dose, but usually the nausea kills everything.
I think all the drugs that cannot be made locally are so expensive due the border customs, who are just mad about anything coming into Australia. I know that my k connect got caught not longer after I left.




Bali:


Beers and cigarettes are cheap, liquor is expensive.
Drug laws are damn strict about drugs, with death penalty for trafficking but however magic mushrooms are legal (??), you can have a good powerful trip for a cheap price.
Weed and hash is not common as the laws harsh, but I had charas coming from India and some bushy weed, but you need to be extra careful about where you smoking it and who and when, makes me paranoid especially after smoking weed.
I heard you could get stuff in pharmacies, but I’m not sure it is still the case now.
Cocaine is high price, and it is not the locals who are going to sell it.
In the street people will offer you pretty much anything, viagra, weed, coke. Don’t buy any it is all fake and often undercover cops or criminals working for them.
You can drink in the street and Kuta is where all the busy night clubs are, every Australian/European people go there everyone gets fucked up.
I heard people got XTC in clubs, but I wouldn’t do that, fuck taking that much risks for md.




Thailand:


Alcohol and cigarettes and cheap.
Drug laws are really strict here. Yaba is the most common drug, there is Ice too.
I had shitty jungle weed up north, that’s pretty much it I didn’t bother doing drugs there, so paranoid to get caught and just got pissed with the local whisky, which gives you a hell of hangover the next day and few black holes, during what you trying to find a nice thai who is not a ladyboy (be careful with that you will be surprised)
I heard some stuff is available in pharmacies, mainly valium no opiates.
Locals are doing loads of yaba there it became crazy, smoking it on foil or swallowing it.




India:


Aaaah it is a downer place.
charas is dirt cheap and everywhere especially up north, down south there is weed. Opium and poppies are everywhere, brahmans are drinking black tea and smoking chilums all day long, where I was, alcohol was banned but you still could get it.
All possible pharms are available, benzos, opiates and for sure ket! Available in vial form sealed quality is just the best. I got lost there between the ket, nitrazepams, charas and opium, be careful! If I stayed longer, I probably lose myself.
Brown sugar available. Goa is no longer what it used to be, due to heavy crackdowns on pharmacies and hippie places.
I am sure you can find psychs and stims in bigger cities but I don’t know, as I stayed in the country side.
It is a big and populated country, I’ve had real meaningful experiences over there. If you get caught you can bribe the cops in most of cases.
Many westerners OD there, a french guy did a fatal heroin/ketamine combo not long ago. You can stay for ever there with little money, some foreigners just burn their passport (for real) and stay. Many locals got no ID.
There is so much to say about that country...




Sri Lanka:


Arak is the local liquor really good stuff, weed is coming from India, they call it KG (Kerala Grass) quite expensive, actually everything is when you are coming from India. If it is not KG you will get the cheap-ass jungle shit weed but, well fuck that.
Pharmacies are open, I’ve had valium, tramadol, morphine, pregabalin, dxm, anything. We looked for ket everywhere with no luck, it is not available like it is in India. But I heard some could put their hands on some.
I went to a nice Trance festival (AtmanTribe) on a post card beach, where westerners were selling LSD, DMT, all kind of psychs but it was expensive.
There is a obvious heroin problem in Colombo, price is correct when you got the the good quality. Locals got drunk drinking arak and smoking heroin.




I got a lot more to say, I could go on for hours, I might add some more later, but I am tired now...
 
Although Vietnam has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, a few pieces of information are missing/need updating. So let's have a look at the availability of narcotic substances in Vietnam in terms of legality and availability.

Most legal/available

As with most countries the two narcotic substances most available and legal are alcohol and tobacco. Since both are legal in most jurisdictions I have no qualms in discussing the cost and supply of such substances.

The local beer is known as ‘bia hoi’ and costs around 25c a glass. It’s available in large taverns that also sell local food, as well as on street corners in tourist areas. It’s pretty watery, but by no means the worst draught beer you’ve ever tasted. There are local beers available in cans/bottles costing around 50c per can/bottle. Again, they are generic lager type beers which lack any real character other than their generic nature. Imported beer is widely available ranging from $1-$5 in stores and no more than $10 in a bar, depending on where or what you are drinking.

A pack of cigarettes cost around $1 but be warned, a lot of brands are Chinese fakes. Particularly American or British brands. It’s better to go for Korean or Japanese brands. The local brands are incredibly strong and best avoided. The locals also smoke a local tobacco called ‘thuoc lao’ through a device similar to a bong. It is unclear if this is purely tobacco, but it gives you a slight head rush after smoking one, before a massive coughing fit and laughter from any Viet near you.

Less legal/available – let’s talk pharmacies

There are a number of products available in Vietnamese pharmacies that would not be sold in another country without a prescription, if at all. The chances of purchasing these pharmaceuticals depends on the pharmacist and substance in question. So, in order of availability…

Terpin-codein – available in all pharmacists with various quantities of the two substances in question – Terpin and Codeine (ranging from 3.9mg – 15mg for Codeine and 100-200mg for Terpin). The pills also have various make ups, some are in gelcaps, some are smaller, some are different colours, some have a shiny outer coating whilst others have a mat finish. Obviously you are not purchasing these pills for their intended use, as a cough remedy, but to extract the codeine from the terpin. Since codeine is water soluble and terpin isn’t (and relatively easy to remove) then you want to aim to find the pills which most easily dissolve. Therefore avoid pills; with some sort of coating, are liquid rather than solid and have a low codeine to terpin ratio (as you have more pills to crush up/dissolve/filter). The process of extraction is well known, and available on some other thread so I won’t go through it here. One last point, pharmacists seem to have little problem selling you insane amounts of these pills, considering you only need 2 a day for their intended use, purchasing 400 tablets at a time would send off alarm bells if I were a pharmacist. But since there is a lack of checks and balances or punishment for such behavior the process continues due to a profit motive. However, recently a few brands which have high doses of codeine (10mg) have disappeared or been replaced with brands that cannot be purified due to their make up or casing.

Intensifiers – things such as dextromethophan and promethazine used with codeine (by Southern Hip Hop artists at least) are also widely available.

There are also a number of antihistamines which can be used in place of benzodiazapines, such as diphenhydramine which are available everywhere if you can’t find anything stronger.

As we’re on the subject of sleeping pills we might as well go through the other downers available legally/semi-legally. If you go into a pharmacist and tell them you can’t sleep they will usually try to sell you Rotundin, a kind of herbal supplement, or Meletonin pills, which harmonise your sleep cycles.

In certain areas a bit of persistence will add a bit more strength. Your best bet is to try Valium/Diazapam, although it is becoming harder to get, a lot of pharmacists stock Zopiclone, which might not be Valium, but it’s getting there. There are a few types of Valium around, the main one being Seduxen, if you find a shady pharmacist who is not playing ball, mention this name, it might help. Luckily a lot of the Valium stocks are located in the Old Quarter (where the tourists are), there used to be more around the expat areas of town, but the authorities/pharmacists got pissed off with so many people asking for Valium all the time so the practice has been all but stopped.

With Valium you have to have a lot of pharmacists say no before you find somewhere, or know someone who knows an address. Other downers do exist, namely Xanex/Alprazolam and Bromazepam. To my knowledge I know of only two establishments (1 for each) that have these substances, and are willing to sell them, after two years living here.

OK, so now we’re done with the pharmacies let’s get on with something slightly harder.

Weed – it’s all mild ‘bush weed’, hard packed and shipped from somewhere in Thailand or Myanmar one would presume. A gram will cost around $10, but prices drop significantly if you buy more. This can be anywhere from 5 grams to a couple of kilos (no kidding, the dealers in Vietnam seem to be dealing with permission, so if a kid they’ve just met asks them for a few kilos of weed it doesn’t look suspect to them). There are a few other varieties around, but not much. As with how to get it, same with every country! Go find the bar with Bob Marley painted on the side and talk to the sleepy guy with the dreadlocks.

A lot of the guys who sell weed might sell other things on the side. The main thing is crystal meth, it is incredibly expensive ($100 per gram) and incredibly pure and usually takes a few pick ups of weed before you can get it organised. It’s not very popular, since most of the expats/tourists have seen the adverts and know the risk and the price means that not many locals can afford it (a gram is an average month’s salary). There are also pills available as well, these are usually sold as ‘ecstasy’ but can be anything really, usually out of the dealers not being that knowledgeable rather than out of any malice. Be careful, check pillreports, test them if you can, or go to a source you know, who you trust and who has tried them themselves. I say this because there have been some bad batches that have made people have temporary blindness, blackouts – that sort of thing.

Ecstasy and other ‘party drugs’ are best found by going to clubs and getting talking. Unlike other countries you’re not going to find dealers in clubs, and what there is is scarce, so it’s usually the most connected who get the limited supply – not the guy fresh off the plane. Despite the aforementioned weed and odd pill (ecstasy or otherwise), there really isn’t that much going about! There are a few trips, usually LSD, mushrooms or some sort of RC you can easily put on a blotter. These make there way into the market by individuals who smuggle them into the country themselves due to the ease of concealment (in the case of blotters). As such they are generally really hard to get hold of, reserved for friends and family etc.

Lastly – there’s always the vet!

It’s an old trick, print off a veterinary degree and go around various clinics bullshitting you’re working for some charity helping sick dogs out in blah blah province. If they don’t have the supply of whatever you want there, they’ll likely have a phone number/address of a supplier.

The obvious substance here is ketamine, but there are a plethora of other substances used in veterinary medicine which are used recreationally in humans. Here’s a handy wiki…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_veterinary_drugs

Although you might have a bit of difficulty getting a source of morphine from a veterinary supply store, the worst answer you will get is “no”. The owners of such stores, as with pharmacists, are generally money motivated. The police will not be called and, if you make a prat out of yourself are some of the most corrupt in the world and easy to bribe.

Notable Absences

Despite being part of The Golden Triangle there is a distinct lack of heroin or anything like it in Vietnam, not my thing, but my friend’s into it and was always trying to get something but the only thing you can really get is some questionable opium sold to you outside a club by a motorbike taxi driver at 2am. This may be because opium production has shifted geographically, but this has caused an increase in the production of Yaba. Again, this is absent in Vietnam, only clean crystal meth here. For quality smack it’s best to go to Cambodia, for Yaba go to Laos or you can get these things in Thailand but it’s more underground so you will be buying from police/gangsters or being abused by them more than you would ordering from the Happy Menus of Vang Vieng or scoring some China white off the well nice taxi driver on the drive from your airport to the guesthouse.

About the strongest thing I do these days though is an effervescent 500mg paracetamol/30mg codeine pill. Age :(
 
I've been to Helsinki (Finland) numerous times and MDMA is big in the clubs.. also for some reason hash was more common than weed. I also experienced speed once over there. I can't really attest to it being an open-market, though; Finnish ppl are pretty civil. My boy that plugged me into the party scene over there is Albanian. They along with the Russians pretty much run the show.

@Tyler... was in Tallin for a weekend once, but was with the Mrs. and not 'partying'.

Anyone going to Estonia, beware of the Russian taxis. LOL.
 
Back in Cambodia again. There are 3 very diverse "scenes" here,

1) Locals

2) Expats

3) Tourists

Locals drug of choice is Yaa Maa and Ice, both being forms of smokable methamphetamine. Yaa Maa, called "Yaa Baa" in Thailand, are small multi-coloured tablets that are 30 to 40% pure, potentiated by caffeine and containing flavourings like vannilin and rosewater.

Manufactured by the Wa ethnicity in Myanmar they are consumed in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. For whatever reason they arent that prevalent in Vietnam.

Ice is the very same crystal that you see in the US, Mexico, Australia, etc. Entire slums are consumed by it with naked 4 year olds and other unlikely familymembers delivering doses to nervous buyers in some.

There is also a flourishing heroin scene. Some smoke it even though it is #4 and would be a waste in most places. They get a tiny rock, maybe 300mg for half of what a NY junkie pays for one glassine (since we cannot discuss proces).

There is a methadone prpgramme with less than 120 slots, a sick joke. There are also mobile needle exchanges run by two NGOs.

Cannabis is a food item here and not really smoked by locals other than motodops serving guesthouses.

I will get to the other 2 "scenes" in my next post.
 
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Cambodia Part 2:

The Expat scene is the same as the Tourist scene with the expected important differences in quality, price and ease of availability. Cambodia has one of the easiest visa availability in all of SE Asia and that is saying alot given the Philippines. People come here for a week and end up permanent fixtures. That can happen anywhere of course but here it is endemic.

For drugs users- cannabis, methampheramine, heroin, opium and pharmaceuticals- it is just about Nirvana. Drugs are illegal of course but even if you get caught with 2 kilos of #4 at the airport $2,500 per kilo to the authoroties buys you a pass. Murder costs on average $10,000 for a foreigner assuming its not picked up by the media (the murder). Sounds crazy but it is a fact and that is why so many of us enjoy the nation. Living under Western mores and inpenetrable justice systems has screwed up countless heavy users and addicts.

While cannabis is openly consumed, for example, in "Happy Pizza" cafes where it is used as a topping, and smoked openly inside certain establishments like guesthouses, one must conform to the local culture or they will not make it here. If you are a foreigner, especially white, you are literally viewed as a walking ATM. Every few meters in Phnom Penh there are people trying to separate you from your cash with a smile- usually without any criminal pretence.

There is no prescription system here. Until 2004 morphine was OTC. Since there are no prescriptions the government simply limited the drug to hospital settings amd even there it is hard to find. Thanks to Western NGOs shoving their repressed noses up the dictator Hun Sen's ar*e cancer patients must make do on Dihydrocodeinone which is now the heaviest opiate/opioid in pharmacies, that and a Gout prepeperation containing powdered opium with an admixed substance that causes potentially fatal convulsions if one uses 3 times the daily dose in 24 hours.

Of course APAP/codeine (30mg codeine) is abundant but even there NGOs have attempted to fuc* things up. Pharmacies used to line their glass cased counters with boxes of it. Now it must be requested and some pharmacies will only sell a couple of boxes at a time. I have heard pure codeine is sold in a couple of places but do not know subjectively. Of course some good things are still aroind, French IR Oxycodone, 5mg capsules, but on the down low and the price is what you would expect from an American street source.

Pharmacies have zero stimulants. No Adderal, nothing.
 
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^interesting report, thank you for sharing!
so, what about ket? sounds like it's a bit hard to get there right?
 
Okay it's still possible to get some if you really want it then... So you are living in Cambodia permanently? It's great I love Asian countries, I wish I could live there one day. Never been to Cambodia tho but heard lots of good stuff about it.

It's slowly becoming like that in India too, pharmacists are getting too nervous to sell any, unless they know the person.

Thank you for your answer Raki! :)
 
tyler5 said:
.ee isnt Russia, bro. its EU. the bribetaking is so 90s its laughable.
if were talking 50kg of 3-METHYLFENTANYL for 50.000.000€ then yeah ofc there are ppl to bribe, but not w/your petty little bs. cops are corrupt enough via criminal groups, they dont need your bribes :D
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I haven't been all through most of Eastern Europe, but friends in Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Serbia all report similar examples. Police comes to you, says "You must pay this Tax/fine for drug posession" but never gives you a ticket, just takes the money. Can't comment on "rich" Eastern European countries like Estonia or Poland, and I did not mean to, should have been more specific. I did not consider "rich countries" as EE because culturally they are very westernized now. Any well-to-do Eastern European country will be the exact same as the west when it comes to police, but from poorer areas and in Russia the bribe culture is still strong. Some police make as little as 200-300 USD a month. a bribe for the same amount is very easy sway to them in a place like Moldova, Ukraine, parts of Romania, areas of Former Yugoslavia.
 
I'm in the north of England, and there are no open air drug markets nor have I ever been approached by dealers (although my friends have, mostly people selling weed). It depends where you are as to what drugs you can get, IME. MDMA is everywhere and it seems like the most popular drug (other than weed), but the quality varies a lot. MCAT used to be everywhere, and it's still easy to find but it seems to be calming down a lot. In big cities, you can get mostly anything, otherwise it's mainly weed. It's pretty difficult to find LSD and almost impossible to get decent ketamine. MXE is big in my town but I think that's just the town I'm in rather than country wide.
 
The only cities where I've been approached on the street by drug dealers (outside of the United States) were in Amsterdam, Prague and Budapest.
 
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