I thought there was already a thread on this, but cant find.
Major differences in my area. Every summer the psychedelics come through in droves along with the EDM and hippie show scene, but not this summer. Bud prices are usually very consistent and as cheap as in a legal state, but suddenly they've risen at least 10%, and I've gotten the first disappointing batch of buds since high school 10 years ago. When the first round of stimulus checks came through, everybody was buying and selling cheap, but now it seems to have finally reversed this fall.
Weed is definitely the pulse of the black market here. As in, if that market is turbulent, shit has really gone awry. It's like tap water, you just assume it'll always be consistent everywhere, until it's not. I've never seen a visible change across the market before, very interesting.
I've been out of the harder drug scene for years, fortunately, but I've heard some very "Panic in Needle Park" type stories.
What's it like in your area?