i personally think dexies shit all over base and street speed unless you know a really decent cook thats doing it right - i also loved the crystal in the pip but fuck doesnt everyone. the most fucked up thing about being on the pip all day every day is the quick tolerance build up which quickly turns a mother fucker broke and unable to get high - stuck between a 'rock' and a hard place..
Pretty much the reason I gave up speed, when the powder became less and less and crystal became more and more frequent. That's when i started to see some of my mates become ultra addicted and smoke it all day everyday and all night long. Like smoking cones. I said no thanks and have never done it. And wont.
I used to love my powder and glug though, we used to get it by the ounces at stages, and some of the stuff was insanely strong. I used to only bomb or snort it, as with the powder or glug back then no one was smoking it, except the odd person doing it on snow cones.
For sure, I used to get white powder speed way back when, and now that I'm older and know a thing or two, I won't even bother with that any more.
Ice is so much better, cleaner and.. brain not working. It's just better in every way.
It may be so much better and cleaner, but from my view so much more addictive too (and expensive?), I just didn't want to get fucked over by another addiction, the things I saw some of my mates lose over becoming ice addicts was sad and some of them turned into assholes too, just from abusing ice. I kinda miss the powder, I'd probably buy some every now and then if it wasn't ice, but all my mates think like you and just buy crystal now (as i think its all that is available most of the time, and probably what they wont), well the ones that use anyway and I dont hang around alot of them anymore, and the ones I used to do powder with they are also long gone from my life. So i got jackshit contacts for speed anymore and dont really care, it must be like over 10 off yrs since i used speed, from when it started to go from mostly powder and glug to mostly ice in Sydney, that's when I stopped using.
How long has ice been around in say Sydney anyone know? From what I recall it was somewhere around the yr 2000 that I started to see crystal taking over after it was always powder and glug. When did crystal meth hit Aus? Anyone? I should search, but one of you guys or girls will know I'm sure. It's hard to look back over time like that I find sometimes, I think I was living in the city when I started seeing mates with ice for the first time, I think that was around 2002 or 2003. There wasn't ice in Aus in the late 90's was there? I never saw it at raves or festivals and I stopped going to them around the yr 2000, and I'm sure i would have seen it if it was available, as there used to be loads of my friends and friends of friends and randoms selling party drugs at parties. You'd get offered anything like speed or mdxx or lsd, but cocaine was't offered much or heroin, not in the scene I was in anyway, too expensive I guess.