freskafreska
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I'm from London England, on a recent trip to YVR I visited the Downtown East Side. They have quite different slang for various substances; in the UK Heroin would be called Dark and Crack called White as opposed to 'Down' and 'Rock/Hard', but I also hear people selling 'side' usually along with down.
Anyone know what this 'side' is?
I also notice a lot of open drug use and dealing but a lot less discrete even right across from the police station on Main which is quite shocking, much worse than the Whitechapel / Shadwell / Aldgate East (E1 Area) in London, and I was very surprised that the stuff isn't double wrapped in plastic where it is the norm in London so people put it into their mouth right away so it could be quickly swallowed if shit goes down. Dealers in London are extremely cautious they won't spend their time weighing or breaking down the order to correct size, its all prewrapped usually dark in blue and white in pink plastic, with set preset prices, and they won't even talk to you unless they know you. One thing I haven't seen in YVR is people handing out drug cards rather they would call out 'Dillies, side, down etc...' when you walk by, and haven't seen people doing nitrous / laughing gas which is rampant in the UK. It's good they have a place like InSite / OnSite though wish something like that exists in London as well.
The dark in YVR seems to be all Fentanyl and Hydromorphone green, brown and purple rocks and a powdered form, all already in it's salt form I suppose which dissolves without citric and leaves no residue, where in London it leaves behind a shitload of brown stuff and requires a whole lot of citric which is really bad on the veins, I guess the synthetic stuff haven't reached the UK yet.
Just a few observations ¬
Anyone know what this 'side' is?
I also notice a lot of open drug use and dealing but a lot less discrete even right across from the police station on Main which is quite shocking, much worse than the Whitechapel / Shadwell / Aldgate East (E1 Area) in London, and I was very surprised that the stuff isn't double wrapped in plastic where it is the norm in London so people put it into their mouth right away so it could be quickly swallowed if shit goes down. Dealers in London are extremely cautious they won't spend their time weighing or breaking down the order to correct size, its all prewrapped usually dark in blue and white in pink plastic, with set preset prices, and they won't even talk to you unless they know you. One thing I haven't seen in YVR is people handing out drug cards rather they would call out 'Dillies, side, down etc...' when you walk by, and haven't seen people doing nitrous / laughing gas which is rampant in the UK. It's good they have a place like InSite / OnSite though wish something like that exists in London as well.
The dark in YVR seems to be all Fentanyl and Hydromorphone green, brown and purple rocks and a powdered form, all already in it's salt form I suppose which dissolves without citric and leaves no residue, where in London it leaves behind a shitload of brown stuff and requires a whole lot of citric which is really bad on the veins, I guess the synthetic stuff haven't reached the UK yet.
Just a few observations ¬