Geography of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Dope Game

[slimvictor]

Editor’s Note: Six years ago, New America Media’s Youth Outlook! published a story called “Geography of the Dope Game,” a breakdown of drug usage in the Bay Area that asked: What drugs are trending on Bay Area streets? Who are the people most likely to use them, and why? How does availability and pattern of use differ from community to community? Because so much has changed since that article appeared, New America Media’s Richmond Pulse, a youth-led media project, decided to produce an updated version. Richmond Pulse staff reporter Sean Shavers lives in West Oakland. He spoke to young people from various Bay Area neighborhoods, as well as law enforcement officials and youth workers, to gain an understanding of today’s drug trends and how they impact health at a community level.

OAKLAND, Calif.--Across the San Francisco Bay Area, young people are using all kinds of drugs – well known, obscure, illegal and prescription. The wide variety of drugs now available on the street offer users different highs at different prices.

Although the names and effects of the drugs may vary, what’s consistent is that youth are a major segment of the population abusing them, often mixing multiple substances at the same time. And in Oakland, Richmond and other East Bay communities, it’s the prescription drugs that appear to be gaining popularity among youth.

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http://newamericamedia.org/2011/12/geography-of-the-san-francisco-bay-areas-dope-game.php

 

[villian]

I feel a little dumber after reading that.

 

[Serotonin101]

I too feel dumber, almost ashamed to share the same species name as these people. What the hell is "volume"? If I recall that's a mathetical term for determining the amount of physical space an object takes up. And who smokes codeine or mdma? Anyone with half a brain would know this is a very wasteful practice. I'm still awed that this kind of ignorance is being taught to people to instill fear about drug consumption. If our youth actually had proper and truthful drug education a lot of problems we see in our youth might be alleviated.

 

[Folley]

What? NIGGA THIS AINT NO GAME WE RUNNIN DEESE STREETS!

This shits retarded lol they cant even spell Vallium or tell the difference between PCP or "bo" lmao

 

[LSDMDMA&AMP]

Uhh "Bo" sounds just like the same as sizzurp everywhere else but damn i had dat hookup back in 10th grade cause i got a 4oz bottle still sealed from the pharmacy for a lot less than that...
llama just wins errday tho

 

[Biovail]

People pour cough syrup, sprite, and cocaine on blunts before smoking them? The fuck is wrong with these people?

 

[DexterMeth]

Seriously man.

I thougt all drug users utilized the internet.

 

[Folley]

People pour cough syrup, sprite, and cocaine on blunts before smoking them? The fuck is wrong with these people?

no you dumb ass, it wont roll like that.

you gotta sprinkle the coke on first, the pour cough syrup on the blunt, then roll it up, then you pour the sizzurp into the sprite and mix it with the blunt, then drink the lean through the blunt like a straw, then smoke the blunt.


fucking stars man

 

[Biovail]

Fucking norcal man, no wonder I never visit up there.

I can only imagine how much sprite cough syrup must be airborne up there intoxicating everyone...