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CuriousCub

CuriousCub

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why is heroin--and only heroin, not other drugs--packaged in these types of bags, and why are they branded with images or a phrase?
i don't understand why a distributor, or maker--which does the packaging?--would go through extra work to sell the drug. What's the point?
Is it similar to how MDXX pills are stamped with a brand?
 
Wow you aint from america are you.

its a way to ID what kind of shit youre getting. certain peopel control certain brands and people remember the bags they get. why identify them?

Aight. you sell diesel. you got some bangin bags. you want people to know that shits yours and know its good. so you stamp it up. mark it for what its worth. now customer comes by, next day they come back cause they remember that george on chadwick and main got the good shit. there you go.
 
Yeah but one dudes White Knockout bags one week might be killer - and the next they could be the same bag and junk dope - stamps aren't reliable.
 
^^^ where are you from? People take their brand names real serious around here. Granted they just give it a name and sell it in vials, its the same concept. As long as the person selling it is actually working for the guy whos brand it is and no one stepped on it more along the way, then the quality will most likely be similar. Dealers, and by dealers I mean the guy supplyin the boys on the corner, take pride on their brand name.

lacey k got it on the nose. The hope is that your brand is of the best quality compared to competition, therefore users will come back to it. Dope is the most competitive street drug to sell, so I guess brand-naming their cut came around from this condition in teh selling environment.
 
We dont get brand bags here in NZ theyre always in those little meth baggies with pretty little pics on them LOL!? otherwise in those little balloons or just wrapped in zigzag paper or tinfoil.
 
i am from america. what i am pointing out is that it isn't that common to know about heroin brands. i never see the media even refer to the brands, and they sensationalize everything about drugs. The only brands/types i ever hear about, and most do, is regarding E...you never hear coke being referred to by brand, or even weed, much less stamped with a colorful picture!
 
ClassAFelon said:
Yeah but one dudes White Knockout bags one week might be killer - and the next they could be the same bag and junk dope - stamps aren't reliable.
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I completely agree!! Although newark dope is generally really good.
 
ClassAFelon said:
Yeah but one dudes White Knockout bags one week might be killer - and the next they could be the same bag and junk dope - stamps aren't reliable.
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That doesn't mean stamps aren't reliable. It means White Knockout is unreliable, and that you were just lucky that first week.
 
CuriousCub said:
i am from america. what i am pointing out is that it isn't that common to know about heroin brands. i never see the media even refer to the brands, and they sensationalize everything about drugs. The only brands/types i ever hear about, and most do, is regarding E...you never hear coke being referred to by brand, or even weed, much less stamped with a colorful picture!
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Of course the media doesnt cover heroin brand names, do you think they give a shit about a name some dealer puts to his product that he sells in a few block radius?? It is rare a brand/dealer would explode to a porportion that ordinary people would be hearing about it, such as the case in tango and cash. Stamps and brands only matter to the people who go to the same spots everyday to cop dope. So if you don't buy your dope off the street from stangers, then no brand names arent commonplace and don't mean anything to you. And again, you really only see this with heroin because it is the most competitive drug market. You want to make your stuff stand out from others so that people will continue to come back to you. So how do you do that? Put a name on it and make it good quality so they associate the name with the quality and continue to come back. I have seen in a few cases crack being sold in this manner, but not nearly as much as dope is.

Hope that clears up any misconceptions about the subject.
 
"Of course the media doesnt cover heroin brand names, do you think they give a shit about a name some dealer puts to his product that he sells in a few block radius?? "

Yes because the media SENSATIONALIZES everything about drugs, especially when it comes to how they are marketed--that's how the develop scare tactics. i already mentioned this so i don't know why you're asking it. It's all about giving the media something to sensationalize. With E, and the way it's colorfully marketed and presented, the media has had a field day with it. Since H has colorful packaging, i am surprised they haven't done the same.
 
h is the most competitve dope market? i figured coke was, in or about the same market as H in terms of competition.
 
^^ No, not on street markets.

Sensationalizing street brand names for dope? Explain how even the media could do this from something so petty. I think your still thinking this to be much bigger then what it is.

I gave my explanation for your original question based on my experience, but its your choice if you want to take it or leave it. And I wasn't asking a question in my previous follow-up post, it was rhetorical.
 
I dunno, rivered1. Borrowing from your other thread...

· cut-throat
· black out
· game over
· bulletproof
· street money
· absolute power
· no way out
· fuck the world

Anyone who wanted to could have a field day with those names.

*remembers a history teacher who read off "street terms" he found in the newspaper, one such entry being "disco biscuits" for ecstacy.*
 
ever notice that the heroin brands are a bit more sinister sounding.. like Bloodbath or 25 to Life. Ecstasy brands are more chipper which is why the media claims they appeal to kids
 
and why are they so sinister? what a way to demonize heroin more than the government has! heroin doesn't have sinister effects personally for the user, so it doesn't correspond with the euphoria users are attracted to. It would feel like you're being part of a set-up to get a brand called '25 to life.'
Where can i see the pictures used in the brands? are they cartoon illustrations or actual photos? i've never seen any of this littered on the ground or in alleys, despite living in one of the most heroin-addicted cities in the US.
 
ask the block kids where you live. What city do you live in? Just curious since I do live in the heroin capital of the country.
 
"heroin doesn't have sinister effects personally for the user"

thats the wackest shit man. i dont know how you mean that but anyone talkin about how dope got no sinister effects on the user probly aint talkin from experience...

maybe you meant no sinister effects like if a bags brand is "sudden death" or some shit you aint gonna have a sudden death yeah then it makes sense.

if thats what youre sayin then i got nothin to say cause its true. but if not i dont agree cause that shits sinister as a mufucker if you dont watch it.
 
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