The tour starts at 9.00 zulu time promptly tomorrow morning.
Fuck, I lucked out today regarding the drugs. We had the worst heroin drought in UK history back in 2010. Prior to that, we had a very 'healthy' heroin scene and although there was not perhaps the range of opioids and opiates that you guys have (multimedia, including the American members of Bluelight, gives the impression that many communities have back markets that include the illegal diversion of medicines containing some of the most powerful narcotics used in health care, such as Hydromorphone etc etc), and although heroin hydrochloride remains largely uncommon in this country, our domestic 'industry' had only gone from strength to strength thanks to a long and well established supply of brown heroin from the Golden Crescent, dominated and entrenched by our long standing, well integrated Pakistani community, who, like many ethnic groups who came to the UK in the 50's and 60's, established a genuine niche for themselves that while on the whole has been a positive contribution and addition to our society, culture and economy, but as a fringe benefit, our adopted countrymen have maintained a market for what was 9 times out of 10, always at least half decent heroin. Another community to arrive in the country at the same time were folks from the Caribbean, who like the Pakistanis have contributed many positives to our society while keeping their own thing close as well.
Now this is not a prejudicial statement despite it being somewhat sweeping, but as a result of the UK's heroin being largely imported by the Asian community and the cocaine via the West - Indians, they have traditionally both supplied each other and out of the 50 - 100 heroin & crack dealers I have ever met in the West Midlands conurbation (an urban area of approx. 5 - 6 million) throughout my life, all but two have been from a minority ethnic background.
So, by the end of the last decade, the UK was a very attractive place to be for a heroin user. As I said, we had few readily available opiates on the BM (mainly Methadone linctus and Oral Morhine products) but a constant supply of brown heroin, which was so strong (averaging at least 50% purity) and so cheap that even those at the lower end of the market (I was still working at the time and always bought weight) could get good deals - one unit of heroin or crack in the UK has traditionally been ?10 (for about 0.2 grams of material) but by summer 2010, most dealers would offer 3 items for 20 quid.
(Boo - raa - just had another dig the gear is lush........)
So in a most spectacular fashion, a certain force of nature did, virtually overnight, achieve what even the most optimistic but pragmatic member of any LE agency, security service or state would agree is impossible - by causing heroin to completely disappear from the Black Market. Nothing. Within 3 weeks, all but one of the drug dealers I knew had shut their phone off, with the remaining guy, just some kid who was shotting for a gang of dealers, even showing me courtesy by warning me that the only heroin they had left was 'drought gear' - a substance that could physically pass for heroin on sight and which was being used all over the country by those still gullible or desperate enough to buy it. Overnight and gone in a puff of smoke. I had lived through national 'droughts' before, the most serious until that point was the disappearance of Ecstasy tablets - suddenly, 9 out of every 10 pills contained piperazine blends while crystal MDMA became extremely difficult, though not impossible, to source.
As October moved into November tho back in 2010, no one in the country was able to obtain heroin. From anywhere. As we, by and large, supply the market in the Republic Of Ireland they were caught too and as some of the factors involved appeared to dependant somewhat on geography the entire market across Northern and Central Europe suffered also (imagine not being able to score in Amsterdam and the French Market has still not recovered, with insufflated buprenorphine wafers taking over as the junkies hit of choice?!).
Out of all the gangs I used to use, the most 'professional' outfit first turned their cellphones back on shortly before Christmas and although the test purchase was disappointing, they still managed to to trump the entire city by selling the first, albeit as weak as you can get, heroin.
to be continued i'm beginning to nod out and im just wittering because im high and no one else will listen to my crap