The drug thread

Something i've never understand.

Everyone here talks about getting an 8ball of coke and whatnot for approx $150 USD more or less from what I remember reading on this thread. But everyone i've asked here, I live in Australia, is telling me shit like $600 for a gram. I realize there is a difference in the US and Australian dollar but that still seems like a ridiculous difference to me.

Am I just talking to dipshits or what?

 

Drugs in Australia are stupid expensive compared to places with land smuggling channels like Europe and North America. Coke is commonly v. Expensive in Aus, especially outside of Sydney and the Gold Coast where there's a decent sized market. Just as an example, In London in 2003, I could buy 6 pills for 12 GBP, or less than $20 AUD. Pills were $27 each if I was buying by the hundred or $35-$40 for less than 10. Prices of coke in particular are also prone to spikes - coke usually comes into Australia through either import smuggler schemes, or through secondary smuggler channels like blister packs on cargo shipping vessels. If the cops make a major bust, or if the blister packs are discovered during shipping - prices spike dramatically. $600 a gram is excessive in my experience - but I haven't bought for a few years and I live right near the gold coast which is a major distribution point. $450 wasn't uncommon though.

 

I met some guys from Melbourne who regularly paid 300$ a gram and claimed it was dirty shit to begin with. Pretty crazy.

 

Don't, it's fucking terrifying and every time I do weed since I get paranoid that it'll happen again.

 

An eightball will cost you from $230- $305 CDN around these parts. Though I haven't purchased in over 2 years.

 

Last I checked I could get a ball for $165 here

edit: Here being near Syracuse, NY

 

120$ a ball, or 40$ a gram here in Portland,OR for alright stuff, a little more for better quality. My ex's friend was a dealer who would get a brick of really high quality coke every now and then and sell us a ball for 140$ I couldn't do more than one or two lines the whole night I got so high off that shit. Did some regular stuff the other night and finished a gram in a couple of hours.

 

i tried deamsters for the first time 3 nights ago. the white kind. it is true what they say: it doesnt get any more psychedelic than DMT.

 

Same here, and a gram is usually never over a 0.7

Only ever met one dealer who weighed out full grams when he sold. He'd even tare the bag too. He told me he remembered what it was like to be 19 and getting fucked over with shitty bags.

 

This was actually a problem in the 60's and 70's when shrooms became mainstream and demand far outpaced the natural supply. Dried mushrooms laced with acid were sold as magic mushrooms fairly commonly in parts of the country that were not in range of their habitat.

Cultivation techniques are much more refined now, it being pretty easy to grow pounds and pounds from a small investment ($200-300) so you're much less likely to find something like that. Spores are legal in the States except in Georgia and California I think, their nominal purpose is for microscopic research only.

A few pointers when buying shrooms:
-Make sure they are cracker dry or close to it. If you bend a stem and it doesn't snap in half like a cracker then they need to be dried more before storage. Water causes oxidation, reduces potency, and can cause mold.
- MAKE ABSOLUTELY SURE there is no black or green mold growing on them. A small amount of blue/greenish bruising on the stems is normal and ok. If there is something black or green or blue that comes off when you rub it, consider it mold and don't buy (except the spores which are a purplish grey dust and completely safe to eat). Just use your sense.
- Try to identify the species before consumption. Much more often than not you are going to be buying Psilocybe cubensis which is very common and more of a body high/mind fuck then anything else. Panaeolus cyanescens, however, will trip you out and are more than twice as potent as cubes. Just do a little research before gobbling up 1/8 and experiencing ego death like my friend did.

That's about all I can share. I've grown them on several occasions and have a year or more personal supply desiccated and jarred. Homegrown shrooms are stronger and better in every way than what you could buy on the streets. If you are really interested in them growing a small batch of your own can be a fulfilling and rewarding process from start to finish.

 

Obviously5Believer
Can you explain "ego death" a little more? On New Years eve this last year I ate a .4 of Molly and 100mg of 2-CB which I found out later was around 3x the high dosage. I forgot who I was for a while and would enter the concious of people that I know like I was living through them. I know this sounds retarted and it was. It completely killed any desire to do drugs again and I rarely drink or smoke weed anymore (smoked once since then and have gotten drunk twice compared with twice a week before.). Is that somewhat like what you were talking about?

 

Sounds about right.The ego is the part of our personality that defines reality and reason. It houses what we perceive to be consciousness. Now, you obviously didn't leave your own mind and live through others, but your reality was altered in such a way that it appeared to your mind that you were.

Everyone has different interpretations of what it really means but my belief is that it could be anytime your reality has dissolved and you lose the concept of your own identity such that you perceive yourself as a small part of the universe rather than a separate entity within it. You decide if that sounds like what you experienced.

It's also a dangerous thing because our whole world is based on the unshakeable belief that you are yourself and that the rest of the world is entirely separate from yourself. It tears down the wall between "me" and "not me" that we've built up since birth and that can be a terrifying thing. Be careful psychonauts. Baby steps.

 

This would make a hell of an idea for a video game. Can you imagine the story that could be told, and the world it would take place in?

Problem is, developing an actual story for it, and a purpose.

 

Last night, i strived for the ultimate psychedelic experience. I started with 7 doses of Rose-25 LSD, waited for about an hour till i started peaking, and then smoked about .7grams of dimethyl tryptamine. Let me describe to yall what i saw:

The onset of the DMT came onto me instantly, like a 50-foot tidal wave. It engulfed my whole body and mind with tingling sensations, bright kaleidoscopic colors, and millions of sounds that i cant even comprehend. The concept of time became meaningless, and i couldnt even grasp what "time" meant. I felt like the history of the entire universe was shown to me in the span of 15 seconds. I traveled through space and time, and encountered different entities and spirits - i believe people refer to them as "machine elfs." As the peak started to wear off slowly, i found myself slipping into a lucid dream state. All of this occurred in the span of 5-10 minutes.

It was an intense experience. It might be frightening to the inexperienced because for a brief moment, you lose absolute control of everything...and that's terrifying. But once you dont fight it and accept that you are being taken for a wild ride, the experience becomes out of this world. (no pun intended)

I also attached an image of one of the entities i met while blasting off. The picture of this girl is exactly what i saw.

 

I heard an entertaining story tonight. This past week one of my friend's was driving along, talking on his cell phone and not paying attention. He flew past a cop who clocked him at 15-20 miles over. This situation possibly would have just resulted in an annoying ticket had he not been in possession of 12 ecstasy pills. He told us how before he even pulled to the side of the road as the cop was still behind him he sat himself up and while reaching for his wallet shoved the bag of pills up his ass. Of course the question everyone wanted to know was whether he actually shoved them up his ass. He said no, he just slid them in his ass cheeks and clenched with the jaws of life. Long story short he got away with just a ticket. Everyone was grossed out/ laughing at him when they heard this. But I can't say I blame him. I wouldn't care how gay or disgusting or source of entertainment it was to everyone else, getting caught with that would have been a very serious charge for him. He would have gotten a lot of time and it would have ruined his record. Although I don't know if I would have been bragging about shoving items in one of my orifices. He said his heart was pounding and it was all he could do not to shake like a wet dog as he handed the cop his license and registration. I bet. I'm just glad he's safe. Even more I'm glad I don't do X/buy from him.


Has anyone here ever been caught with drugs? Have you ever had any close calls? More importantly, how did you get away with it (if you were one of the lucky ones) ?

 

Got caught with a half ounce of weed once, way back when I was 17. Myself, and a small group of friends were bombing around a beach in my 89' Sundance with a bench tied to the back of it with a rope we stole from the flagpole on the beach, and taking turns riding said bench with bets on who would last the longest while driving through sand at speeds of up to 50kph. Oh yeah, and the bench was taken from the front steps of City Hall. Fucking thing even had engravings saying thank you to the organization that donated it.

I'd say the drugs were the least of our problems that night, although they certainly didn't help.

As for close calls, a friend and I had one once. We were chilling in a park and having a couple beers near the river in Saskatoon, her car parked off not too far from where we were when a pair of cops came by on bikes and gave us shit for drinking there. We got our booze dumped, which was shitty, but got lucky because they rode by the car and somehow didn't see the 3 grams of coke we'd picked up earlier which we'd left in the open by the ashtray like assholes.

 

My friend and I were stopped by the cops with a bowl packed in the glove compartment. They saw us at a seven eleven and followed us for like five blocks. My windows are tinted to all hell so I guess that's what tipped them off that we might be a potential arrest. They came up to our windows with guns drawn, told me to take my car keys out and put them on the roof, and asked both of us if we've ever been arrested. Mind you we had done absolutely nothing wrong at this point. I was severely pissed at how we were being treated but given the fact that we had around an eighth with us and I was still slightly high I decided to bite my tongue. I was as respectful as I could be to these cops without sounding apologetic, and after a genuine 30 minute long conversation about everything from favorite cars to career goals to LAPD overtime rules they let us go without even searching us.

Just don't act like a dick to the cop, but don't sound like an apologetic pussy either. It'll make the cop think you've got something to hide. And never consent to a search of your vehicle (in california, at least). If the cop has the right to search your shit he's not going to ask you, he's just going to do it. If he asks, respectfully say no. Know your rights and you should be fine.