Living in a huge city in south america were the street/game thing is, I wouldn't say more dangerous, but more complex I've learnt a few thing that apply only demographically to me, as I live in a metropolitan area the whole needing-to-drive thing is excluded.
-Never smoke weed at a PUBLIC place , private security is ok, just as long as you dont look like an enraged hobo and have a couple of bucks to bribe them, sometime I bribed real cops too, but the stress involved with it it's not worthy...
-Never buy off the streets, I only meet with people I know on the streets if they can't do the thing at a place/don't have a place, and then we walk somewhere safe to do the thing
-Speak in code with your suppliers , and try to make less purchases and bigger ammounts each time, that way I find it's easier to get stuff fronted after knowing the guys for a while, of course you gotta pay back when you promised you will.
-It's cool to hang out chill with some suppliers and their family/friends for a while, but keep your mouth shut and know how and when to leave
-Never go to raves/big electronic music crap events, especially on acid....
-Try to befriend someone who works at a pharmacy
-I'm off the OC's now but when i was hooked and went out I already had preapared my shit for snorting before, like 4 120mgs papers, I used to have a job back then. So my averall quality of life was better than now , broke maintaining with codeine....back on topic, I tried doing most of them outside of my workplace, the first paper before getting in and the second one at lunch. I always looked for the fanciest places I could find, even if there was police/security, as I didn't look threatening at all and snorting/shoothing up at a public bathroom is a skill you develop.
I mean I could go to the dirty subway station bathroom or get in some coffee shop and just buy a soda and do my drugs there, paradoxically the best place I found was the Marriot hotel, they had loads of security guards, but they never stopped me, I just went inside straight to the fancy bathroom like it was my buisness every day, it was like they got to know me, and the bathrooms were perfect, all clean big and comfy with real doors, so many happy memories of walking ourside tyhat bathroom lighting a dunhill feeling good to go again...though on my way back home I had to find some empty street to do it as it was rush hour and the subway station would have been too stupid.
-Don't explain what oxycodone is to someone who doesn't knows beforehand
-Keep all your shit+parphernalia together and locked, even if you live alone. It's not nice a girl came to my place and well she was not very polite, but most people aren't and opened my desk drawer whilst I was away and found a 10strip of syringes+needles, once my mom dropped by and found loads of bottles of OC's and benzos and roaches and evidence.
-Don't smoke Crack or Heroin in a public bathroom thinking you'll get away with it, the paranoia's not worthy...ndif you'e smoking h it might even drag attention to yourself, it's better to smoke them fast on an empty street only in case of emergency (that means being sober, not opiated or too opiated)
-Lie to Paramedics about drug use, even if you have just had an od/seizure and are inside an ambulance, try to get out asap if you're over 21 and get private medical attention
-Always carry your I.D. / Social Security / Driver's liscence/ health Insurance/ whatever credentials you have with you, if thy have photos even better, having 3or4 legit id's of myself at once saved me from being strip-searched 3 times...
-Don't Bring weed unneccesarily, especially buds that need to be manicured
-Don't play the smartass with the cops...in my barrio I can't fuck with them, at some other barrios I could, and had in the past, but is too much stress and nowadays I spend most day getting stoned at home anyway all benzoed up