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In your opinion what is the "status drug/coke of the 70s/80s" today?

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notsmokeymcpot42088

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I think this fits in drug culture as it is more 'what is looked upon as high status' drug use compared to "OMG is he injecting in the resteraunt" or w/e.

In the 80's it was cocaine that is the precident


For me, I say it is homemade vape carts not a particular substance --- works to a degree if done right with almost any drug (but slightly inefficient with many) and can be carried around in public with a smile on your face. Unless you smokin something particularly odd smelling?? havent met that substance yet
 
Shit in the 90s when I came uk I gram of coke would have me and 2 cousins going all night the ecstasy was good doves mitsubushis great time to be alive tool in London fucked out our heads they play no quarter pearl jam aic great times
 
Ketamine seems to me near ubuiguitus these days and psychedelics are more popular than ever, especially around all the hype with medical uses and microdosing in Silicon Valley etc. Weed is by most accounts socially acceptable nowadays. But, I don’t feel like coke ever went away tbh. It’s got that mainstream appeal and it’s still expensive as fuck which makes it classy.
 
^ Good one. With the richest man on earth partaking that is a solid answer. Def if you have DXM (eww) pcp (gross!) ketamine (hey come over here a minute). I tend to agree. We got Ketamine can anyone beat ketamine! Going once.

ps. good to be back
 
Nitrous is getting really popular with the youth these days. I think that and ketamine are shaping up to be the drugs of the decade. Espescially with all the treatment clinics popping up now, you had celebrities like Matthew Perry using it, and even the richest man as you said.
 
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notsmokeymcpot42088 said:
ps. good to be back
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Very glad you are back and posting. Just wanted to say. I don't know what that drug is today, but I do remember in the 70's that cocaine was opening snorted and offered in certain circumstances. This was all before Ronald Reagan became president and made all drugs sound bad in the 80's. But back then cocaine was prestigious. I remember being offered a toot in the strangest places out in the open.
 
ketamine is a solid choice -- nitrous is a giant pain in the ass that most people don't want to deal with so it goes whippets (Which I heard are no longer legal, nor do I see them at my local BP anymore---?) not that legality matters to status. Not alot of people willing to regulate nitrous to oxygen ratio. (Pumping it through the vents was genius ala club 54 and many others) but I think it has seen it's day in the sun. Both disassociative's(sp) That must say something as personally mxe is as far in that direction as I enjoy going.
 
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That must say something as personally mxe is as far in that direction as I enjoy going.
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MXE is a more potent dissociative than ket. But yeah while I personally am living far away from street level dealers, from what I heard might indeed ket be the drug of these times. Most dissociatives are absolutely lovely drugs, they deserve respect but can give you so much, with a better risk to benefit ratio (imho) than some other drugs. Just the semi-permanent tolerance, and the bladder, are downsides.
 
There is VERY good coke around these days, just gotta know where to find it. And good coke isn't sopposed to keep you up all nighf after a few lines
 
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MXE is a more potent dissociative than ket. But yeah while I personally am living far away from street level dealers, from what I heard might indeed ket be the drug of these times. Most dissociatives are absolutely lovely drugs, they deserve respect but can give you so much, with a better risk to benefit ratio (imho) than some other drugs. Just the semi-permanent tolerance, and the bladder, are downsides.
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Is it? Maybe my dose was small, broke up a bunch of roughly 20 mg lines and someone railed all of em but 3 thinking it was blow "This is strange coke man" --- "Did you find that on a dish down in the basement in a cupboard" affirmative nod, "Well buckle up" he was fine.

I insufflated about 30mg and it was much less -- dysphoric? than DXM or ket which were dosed liberally (Could be the problem) -- measured by someone else as "This is a good hit for you" DXM I just don't remember but many hundred mgs if I recall --- Ya know opioid and benzo tolerance doesn't cross over to this. (not completely true but..)

Dimethocaine gives like a 5 minute rush but it doesn't feel very "High status" to be chasing a rush around. Personally and it is personal some kind of RC benzo in large enough stock I don't have to worry for a bit. There was a time handing out mothers little helpers was very accepted amongst the middle class
 
Shinji Ikari said:
Ketamine seems to me near ubuiguitus these days and psychedelics are more popular than ever, especially around all the hype with medical uses and microdosing in Silicon Valley etc. Weed is by most accounts socially acceptable nowadays. But, I don’t feel like coke ever went away tbh. It’s got that mainstream appeal and it’s still expensive as fuck which makes it classy.
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Ketamine and psychedelics are definitely very in these days. Almost everyone seems to be on k. Glad i can say i did it long before it became popular lol
 
I think this weeks south park sealed that ketamine is indeed the current answer! Congrats to whoever said that originally -- YOU WIN.

Still for me it is either having "Everything" in cart form for public consumption if needed -- or lets say clonazolam if I have to pick -- that one felt class all the way through. (To me)
 
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MXE is a more potent dissociative than ket.
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MXE isn't all or nothing like K. You could take small bumps of it and have a mild buzz going without anyone being any wiser. There were levels to it. You could get holed out sure but you had to work at it. It isn't like K where it's obvious to everyone you're on something even when you aren't circling a K-hole.

I personally dislike K and DXM these days. I really liked DXM the first couple of times I tried it and K was fun to hole on. But once I got a taste of MXE nothing else compares. K feels very cold compared to MXE even when you go all-in and hole on both of them. One of my biggest regrets in life is giving away all that MXE for free instead of saving it. If I'd known it would vanish from the face of the Earth I would have bought much much more and I would have been far more stingy with what I had out of the early batches that were cheap as fuck.

Last time I got "MXE" some guy just sold me some K I think. Best I can tell that's what it was. Every time I've seen MXE around it is way too expensive for what people are asking (or more likely I assume it's something else). The later batches of MXE I got weren't that great compared to the early ones (even putting aside tolerance).

I'm not surprised such drugs are popular these days considering how badly most people want to escape day-to-day life. For numbing pain there is nothing no better than opioids and the dissos.
 
^ That is what I was trying to articulate thank you. Not really experienced enough to fully grasp it but Yea MXE felt like a warm psychedelic almost. Pretty sure I went to the store without thinking twice about an hour in for movie snacks.

Never fell into an MXE hole but I am guessing it would be tough to tell the difference from a K hole.

So I nailed it off the bat with MXE (Nope I said various carts, was thinking it though)? Now let's make it the stuff of legends lol anytime anyone's mentions ket --- "Oh you haven't really tried nothing yet, this stuff was the holy grail" nah its gone forever gunna have to trust EVERYONE THAT TRIED IT lol

**Not even a lie -- a bit of hyperbole perhaps**
 
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In Australia, it's cocaine for sure now.

80's/90's you would barely see cocaine ever.

Now it's taken over.
 
no kidding -- I heard it was pretty cost prohibitive. Do you know if the quality is decent? It has went downhill so far since the late 90s in the US - hardly the same product. (clearly I don't know the right ppl and don't care to)
 
In The Netherlands, coke is much less exclusive than it was. A few people smoke cocaine base sometimes, including me, crack I have never personally come across yet.
 
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As far as "high status drugs" go, from my perspective of having lived between Maine and Florida (all east coast on the US), I'll try to brainstorm a handful:
  • Mescaline, as it's often very pricey per dose.
  • The small contingency of people that I know who are into 25X-NBXX compounds are all dying to acquire more of them but there are just so few on the market that there really isn't much of a choice as far as these go.
  • LSD in liquid, tablet, or sugar cube forms.
  • Actual pharma Adderall (or any amphetamine that isn't meth), and especially Vyvanse, it tends to sell for well over $1 per mg here.
    • Pharma benzos and opiates go for the same, but other opioids (as opposed to opiates) such as tianeptine, 7-OH, mitragynine, etc. sell for quite a low price thankfully.
  • 2C-B is super rare to come upon in the street for some reason, but it's becoming more common in the festival/jam band circuit thankfully.
  • Cocaine is more prevalently available than coca tea which makes me want to punch my own scrotum off like a goddamn speedbag.
  • Methaqualone got a lot of hype over the infamous video of the "Quaalude guy" and the movie The Wolf Of Wall Street, but everybody I know who's used it prefers other sedatives.
  • Lean is going for exorbitant prices right now because of rappers talking about it, leading to this entire cottage industry of homebrew lean made to replicate the original as accurately as possible.
  • Barbiturates have a lot of hype, but everybody I've ever known to use them does not like them.
  • Carisoprodol and/or meprobamate are popular, and frankly I fucking adore these things. Have used them scripted as well as shipped in from India, and India's are better imo.
  • DMT is kind of mid-ish in availability, many people want it but few possess it, even though it can be extracted from plants that grow all over the place here.
  • PCP is often pursued by disso enthusiasts but is almost exclusively found as RC analogs. Besides, street samples are disgustingly contaminated for the most part.
  • Fentanyl has essentially dried up everywhere I've been in the past few years.
  • Cannabis in the form of piatella, dry sift, electrosift, bubble hash, live rosin, hash rosin, as well as some altnoids like THC-P, THC-H and THC-B have become more desirable to most than traditional cannabis flower.
 
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