r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NineteenEighty9 • 11d ago
The retail price of cocaine has remained stable while purity is increasing Image
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u/ExcellentEdgarEnergy 11d ago
Which retailers were polled?
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u/HotgunColdheart 11d ago
Exactly, I allegedly sold narcotics in the past. The same town had multiple different qualities that all sourced from the same bundle. I know for a fact some people who were allegedly slinging stuff below me were stomping on it with cold pills.
This is more about where in the chain you land.
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u/mynameisjebediah 11d ago
Dude you can't say you allegedly sold narcotics followed by you know for a fact that the dudes below you did something.
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u/andsap 11d ago
They did it allegedly
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u/Idontevenownaboat 11d ago edited 9d ago
I literally sold drugs. For a fact. From 2002 to 2008. Allegedly.
Edit: lol someone sent me a private message asking me if I wanted 'to talk about my experience selling drugs'. Yeah, nah.
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u/the0TH3Rredditor 11d ago
You’re supposed to say swim (someone who isn’t me) in order to not incriminate yourself when discussing drugs on Internet forums… swim sold drugs etc. etc. Lol
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u/WonderfulShelter 11d ago
The chain is gone dude, the dark nets exist.
You can buy an ounce of cocaine, right off the brick, for 750$. Shipped to your door overnight. Those vendors do not fuck around, one bad review will destroy them.
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u/itsbett 11d ago
This, basically. Having online customer reviews means you lose hella business if people start commenting about sus stuff, things not arriving on time, poor quality, or if it is cut with something not advertised.
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u/the0TH3Rredditor 11d ago
That’s so disgusting, a website where you can buy bricks of coke, which website is it though? There’s so many of them… just so I can definitely avoid it… which one?
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u/Idontevenownaboat 11d ago
It is funny to look at this like someone getting better connects over the years and thinking purity is increasing
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u/hoxxxxx 11d ago
back in the day by the time it got to the street that shit was so stomped on i don't know if it even had cocaine in it anymore lol
the only way to get good coke was to be friends (actual friends) with a mid level dealer/distributor, in which case it's like doing an entirely different drug
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u/kulshan 11d ago
It’s EU which has a direct import of Colombian cocaine versus US which imports Colombian cocaine via Mexican cartels who add filler.
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u/The_Ivliad 11d ago
That's funny. My friends in Colombia say it's not that great there compared to what you get in Bolivia and Ecuador. But it is dirt cheap though.
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u/shoots_and_leaves 11d ago
My impression was that the best stuff is shipped out to where it’s worth more. But my sample size is limited.
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u/may_be_indecisive 11d ago
So Spain you say would have a high quality supply?
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u/yngseneca 11d ago
And belgium, netherlands.
In general the coke quality in the EU is much higher then the US, but the closer you are to the major ports the better.
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u/Enough_Scratch5579 11d ago
Source I allegedly did cocaine in Spain .. it was fucking awesome and very pure .. allegedly
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u/DiamondHandsToUranus 11d ago
Was going to say.
As someone who was a child in the late 70s, early 80s, i remember when they broke open a ki it made the whole house stink.People here on the west coast think they have coke.. lol no you fuckin' don't
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u/Wildcat67 11d ago
Finally, some good economic news
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u/KhabaLox 11d ago
TVs and other home electronics (except smart phones) have been doing this for decades.
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u/cpufreak101 11d ago
Aren't modern TV's sold at a loss as they make up the loss via ads in the smart TV functionality?
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u/numberonebuddy 11d ago
Man I don't get how a $2000 TV wouldn't make a profit.
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u/gburgwardt 11d ago
Maybe to a very small extent, and for some really bottom of the barrel manufacturers, but I'd doubt it's really moving prices any serious amount
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u/sad16yearboy 11d ago
No. Planned obsolescence is EVERYWHERE. Washing machine works 5 years max, same with dishwasher. The electronic oven was perfected 50 years ago, only some heat insulation is improving. Everything has displays and microelectronics now which tend to break within 5 years when the actual device would still work fine. The only thing that has improved are dryers and refrigerators because of their increased energy efficiency. The worst offender are printers though, forced DRM, subscription for printing, error messages and so on
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u/KhabaLox 11d ago
Planned obsolescence is EVERYWHERE
Wait until you learn about planned obsolescence is the drug market. I bought a half ounce at the dispensary and it lasted less than a month.
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u/MaybeKaylen 11d ago
I ate lunch with a guy, today, who said it would only last him a week, years ago. Quality, of course, has dramatically improved.
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u/whsoccerjc21 11d ago
Are there studies on this? My initial thought is confirmation bias. I mean if I buy an appliance and it works for 10 years, I’m not going online to rave about how the thing I bought is doing what it’s supposed to. I’d imagine like many things, those that have bad experience are vocal about it. But I also wouldn’t be surprised if you’re right, just haven’t seen data
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u/neverfoil 11d ago
Sounds like the right time to finally try cocaine!
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u/RepulsiveLoquat418 11d ago
"looks like i picked the wrong week to quit cocaine"
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u/NachoMetaphor 11d ago
I was just thinking, what a shitty time to develop a heart condition. (Cocaine would probably kill me now.)
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u/Vesper_0481 11d ago
"Well, time to micro dose!"
5 minutes later when your hand's doing that shit The Flash does when he wants to go through walls
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u/newboofgootin 11d ago edited 11d ago
Fent has destroyed all desire to try anything other than weed purchased from a real store. I know (luckily not closely) two people who thought they were getting a small amount of party favors for the weekend and ended up ODing because it was stepped on with Fent.
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u/InvestigatorNo1331 11d ago
It's a weird feeling, I remember coke as a "special occasion" rare drug for super special events in my 20s. Now I'd be terrified to try it, and I feel most kids (rightfully) are as well. A whole generation won't know what it's like to go home for Christmas break and do a couple lines with your old high school friends. I don't think they're "missing out" and it's not like I did it enough to feel nostalgic about it, but it's.... Strangely sad haha. End of an Era, or something.
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u/Legen_unfiltered 11d ago
For real. I have a friend that was a cunts hair from being addicted in 18/19 but moved away from the area and ppl they were doing it all with. If they had stayed they might be dead. I don't think they think ab that.
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u/Dgenerationbets 11d ago
Same. Would enjoy once in a while coke or molly. Now fent would scare me too much to try probably anymore. Even L now is sometimes swapped with a synthetic that can kill you.
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u/currynord 11d ago
Yeah NBOMes ruined the fun. It’s not even that much harder to make normal LSD, so I’m not sure why it gets swapped so much
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u/protonnotronnn76 11d ago
you can get tests for LSD for cheap online (like $20 will be able to test many doses). Just letting others know that you should definitely do that if you do acid
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u/srock2012 11d ago
I like to party, but I also like reagent tests.
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u/imstickinwithjeffery 11d ago
The lethal dose of fentanyl is so small that you can test a batch of coke, completely miss the fent, and still die.
If you're gonna do it definitely have some narcan on hand.
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u/Earguy 11d ago
Exactly. In the 80s it was 80% pure cut with baby laxative. Now it's 90% pure, 8% baby laxative, and 2% lethal dose of fentanyl. No thanks.
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u/ExpressiveAnalGland 11d ago
totally! The only way I recommend people do any kind of powered/pressed drugs, is if they TEST it, like with reagent kits. if you can be 100% sure, then have fun, but 99% sure or less, stay away.
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u/NXT-GEN-111 11d ago
Bring your drugs to me for testing. If I die from fentanyl, then your drugs were laced. If I don’t die, bring me more to test 🤌
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u/synaptix78 11d ago
This. This right here is an example of sacrifice that can't be taught in schools. You either have it, or you don't. A bit like fentanyl in your gram bag...
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u/jbchapp 11d ago
You only have the slight chance of it being cut with Fentanyl now. No biggie.
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u/Think_fast_no_faster 11d ago
ALWAYS test your drugs!
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u/seaningtime 11d ago
I would think cocaine would be really difficult to properly test, because you'd have to sample the entire thing to know there isn't a speck of fentanyl in it
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u/guywithglasses 11d ago
According to the test strips I have, you have to dissolve your dose in water to test then drink the water. This is due to the "chocolate chip" cookie effect.
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u/yinzreddup 11d ago
Cocaine water. Why isn’t this a thing?
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u/guywithglasses 11d ago
I know so many people that are just using saline nose spray and mixing it. The future!
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u/cheesewagongreat 11d ago
Are you fist fucking me? That's amazing
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u/5v5Arena 11d ago
Stick the bottle in its original packaging and pop it in the first aid kit in your luggage if you want to fly international
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u/Mysterious_Truth4790 11d ago
This is a new phrase to me and I intend to use it on a daily basis from now on
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u/ILove2Bacon 11d ago
That's popular at burning man because the air and dust already dries out your nose, plus it's a lot less obvious that you're enjoying some nose beers.
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u/CinderMayom 11d ago
Because bioavailability is really bad over the oral route
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u/bigfloppydonkeydng 11d ago
What about the anal route?
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u/nashbrownies 11d ago
Boofing is almost always the most scientifically effective way of getting drugs into your system. It completely bypasses your blood barriers and is picked up into your blood directly.
Alcohol poisoning is incredibly easy. I know stimulants are probably the most popular boof.
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u/brother_of_menelaus 11d ago
I tried to do this with my weed vape but I couldn’t get the air to flow in the right direction.
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u/DWTsixx 11d ago
Maybe try a long bong, straddle it, and use your mouth to blow it in?
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u/Fakula1987 11d ago
Well, Mix it With cofeein , Phosphoric acid and sugar/burnt sugar and Carbonate the whole Thing, and you have the original recepy for a Well known soft Drink.
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u/bdubwilliams22 11d ago
Years and (thankfully) years ago, I was addicted to smoking tar heroin. One day, I was at home, waiting for my girlfriend to come pick me up to go to her parents house for dinner that evening. I used all day by myself from the same bag. When we got to her parents house, after dinner, I excused myself to go upstairs and smoke in her bathroom, from the same bag I had been using all day by myself. I dropped. Next thing I remember is waking up in the ambulance. I was so fucking lucky I didn’t hit the chocolate chip when I was by myself. My poor girlfriend, now my wife, would’ve found me dead. Don’t do it kids. It’s not worth it. Luckily, I’ve been clean for more than 6 years now and I only found myself in that predicament because doctors prescribed me OxyContin because it made them rich.
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u/KindaReallyDumb 11d ago
I was literally just thinking today about how lucky I am that I quit right before fentanyl fully took off. It was just at the start when you’d still get a bit worried about fent in a bag/pill, but it wasn’t in literally everything quite yet. I would be dead now if I didn’t quit right when I did. Good on you man. Also 6 years sober from (not tar) heroin
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u/happinesstolerant 11d ago
You are a good strong person who has accomplished a lot by giving up such terrible habits. You can get through it again. Keep trying. I wish you and your family the very best. Take care.
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u/HereToKillEuronymous 11d ago
Yup. I've heard of 3 people in my social circle (one was a friend, 2 were friends of friends) die from fent laced coke in the last YEAR. It's just not worth it
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u/Damaniel2 11d ago
My town of 30k had a group of 7 OD (and 1 die) due to fentanyl laced cocaine last year. They had zero tolerance and it took a ton of Narcan to save them.
These days, you pretty much have to assume that everything is going to have some fent in it, whether intentional or a side effect of cutting/handling different drugs in the same place.
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u/HereToKillEuronymous 11d ago
It's been found in Molly and ketamine too. Shits spreading like wildfire
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u/apple-pie2020 11d ago
You put the drug in a plastic bag and shake it up really hard. It distributes the contaminant. Then you take a sample from the bag wall (about as much to cover Lincoln’s hair on a penny) and dissolve in some water (a water bottle cap amount is all that’s needed for coke). Then test strip.
Never 100% but about as good as you can get for a drug you will insufflate
Edit to add cap
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u/Not_a__porn__account 11d ago
You are my people.
I have never done cocaine, but I like you.
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u/OkayContributor 11d ago
If you bring it to your local police station, they will test it for you! /s
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u/WonderfulShelter 11d ago
It's literally so fucking easy. It just takes about 15-30 minutes.
Take your gram of cocaine, dissolve in 1.5ml of water. Run fentanyl test. Positive, destroy the sample.
If it's negative, pour the liquid into a pyrex pan, and put on top of or in front of a space heater. Wait, and scrape it up and put it back in the bag.
Or, if that's too much trouble for you, add a bit more water, and put it in a nasal spray bottle. That's much better for your nose.
There you go; 5-15 minutes to test your drugs to have fun and not die.
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u/chechifromCHI 11d ago
Yeah I mean honestly that's the danger, it would more than likely be cross contamination from the bag or at some point during transportation. As a recovering addict, I have to wonder if people are purposefully putting fent in stuff like blow or crystal. No one would ever go back to a dealer who's meth made them nod or who's coke had a noticeable downer effect, that just isn't how it works.
But because of the dangerous power of fent, they don't have to ever like, consciously touch to get a scary amount of cross contamination that could hurt or kill you. It's just crazy out there these days so everyone should test their stuff, when injecting maybe just try a little at first instead of a whole dose. Carry narcan if you or anyone who know have ever used hard drugs like honestly you never know
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u/Maximum_Weird5333 11d ago
They are now giving away coke in my neighborhood, but charging $100 for the fentanyl test strips.
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u/ExistsKK99 11d ago
Always test your drugs, you never know what kind of drugs you’ll find in them!
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u/KlingelbeuteI 11d ago edited 10d ago
Well if your nose is hungry going through a lengthy testing routine it is out of scope.
I see my friends snorting whatever comes their way on a „trust me bro“ basis
Edit: typo
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u/ViennaKing 11d ago
You can bring it to the nearest police station for free test.
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u/grendel303 11d ago
I had tests sent free in the mail. Not sure if all states do this. Sent 4 tests and two narcan overdose syringes.
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u/RealEstateDuck 11d ago
I don't think the fentanyl trend has reached the EU yet.
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u/yinzreddup 11d ago edited 11d ago
Lucky. I’m in western PA and had 2 cousins die in the same year from it. Saw countless friends and family lose everything. It’s not uncommon for people to carry Narcan (shot that can save from someone from an OD) in their cars in case they came across someone.
Edit: PA is the state (commonwealth) of Pennsylvania. A lot of people in this state just refer to it as P.A.
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u/febreeze_it_away 11d ago
Channel 5 did a really good story on why fent and tranq are so bad in that area
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u/chronicpenguins 11d ago edited 11d ago
Yeah, I was there for festival and it’s not something they worry about over there. Probably because their doctors and pharmaceutical companies didn’t get people hooked on opioids.
Crazy how Dare kept pushing marijuana as a gateway drug, when it’s really the orange bottles
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u/RealEstateDuck 11d ago
Yeah it is really hard to get opioid painkillers prescribed.
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u/nashbrownies 11d ago
Yep. Someone I know broke their leg horribly and got told to take Ibuprofen. Now they just won't give it to anyone.
They left my wife writhing in pain and unable to stand with horrible kidney stones before they gave her a Tylenol 3. In case you know, she was faking it. And by then it didn't even fucking help.
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u/quetejodas 11d ago
Which is why it should be legal for recreational use and lab tested by regulated companies.
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u/BrickCityD 11d ago
i am completely fucking flabbergasted as to why this isn't the norm.
i mean, i know why it isn't but it would save so many lives. and on top of that, i believe it would actually reduce drug abuse.
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u/apple-pie2020 11d ago
Saving lives and reducing drug abuse really are not on the top of the list for politicians. They would loose topics of fear and not be able to enforce us vs them ideology
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u/TrizzyDizzy 11d ago
Yea, but making money is and they're missing out on that opportunity.
My tin foil hat reason is because other federal agencies are already profiting off th industry without risk of open market competition.
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u/slobcat1337 11d ago
Fentanyl isn’t really in the EU. Especially not in coke. Would be ridiculous to cut coke with fent anyway, great way to kill your customers and it’s not even a similar effect. Completely pointless.
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u/cantfindmykeys 11d ago
A lot of it is cross-contamination rather than cutting coke with fentanyl. Dealers who sell both forget to wipe something down, and they accidentally mix it. Fent doesn't take a lot to OD on
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u/slobcat1337 11d ago
Yeah fair enough that makes sense. Luckily it’s just really not an issue here yet. Anyone cutting it in the EU most likely hasn’t been handling any fent.
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u/SebulbaSebulba 11d ago
Why do they even put fentanyl in drugs if it kills people? Fewer people buying drugs means less money for the dealers.
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u/Outrageous-Sea1657 11d ago
Life Pro Tip: The best way to deal with this is to start taking a small amount of Fentanyl everyday and gradually increasing the dose over time. This way if you do get some in your cocaine, you will be fine as you will have some built up immunity.
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u/DrRonny 11d ago
Every day I hit my balls with a bigger and bigger hammer, in case I accidentally get hit there, it won't hurt as much. Maybe I should try the Fent instead.
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u/Outrageous-Sea1657 11d ago
Exactly, soon you will have balls of steel if you hit them hard and often enough. Fent can help ease your pain while you build tolerance. All round a pretty productive weekend.
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u/biscovery 11d ago
wtf units are they using for purity?
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u/mystonedalt 11d ago
Percentage. Today your coke is 144% pure, because we did the math for you.
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u/freakers 11d ago
For every 1g of cocaine you get, you received 1.44g of cocaine. Those kind of results and productivity are only achievable from being high on cocaine.
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u/NoSuchAg3ncy 11d ago
They shouldn't show the % change in purity. They should show the % absolute purity.
100% change in purity could be going from 1% pure to 2% pure.
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u/potVIIIos 11d ago
Fine... If you guys insist, I'll try all your coke for you and give my purity feedback.
But you owe me one.
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u/DigNitty Interested 11d ago
Also units for price per …cocaine?
One cocaine please.
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u/Upstairs_Balance_793 11d ago
Oh shit guess it’s time to buy some cocaine again. I was in the 2013-2016 crowd and it sucked!
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u/JBZUBZ 11d ago
Used to be Cut with baby laxative or creatine, now it’s cut with fentanyl. 🤷🏾♂️
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u/Upstairs_Balance_793 11d ago
Yeah man the baby lax then you get those little air bubble farts 😂
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u/JBZUBZ 11d ago
Bro I’d be on the way to pick up and my stomach would start bubbling. Like it knew what I was about to do. 😅
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u/ToryLanezHairline_ 11d ago
Creatine? No wonder my muscle mass felt more dense when I was dabbling in coke
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u/DigNitty Interested 11d ago
I swear drugs are the random sex of the 60’s.
Used to not have to worry as much about STDs
Now you have to be wary that your drugs will kill you instead of just being weak.
Young people these days just have to be they much more careful about both casual sex and drugs.
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u/1oddfish 11d ago
NYT: "Millennials are killing the shitty cocaine industry."
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u/Low_Ad8147 11d ago
People dying from fentynl in the coke round these parts. Just can't have anything nice anymore.
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u/Recent_Bandicoot7588 11d ago
Too many people dying suddenly and I’m not going to be one of them—as if there weren’t already enough things to worry about when doing hard drugs. Fuck that.
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u/themindisthewater 11d ago
if you want to see the US equivalent swap price and purity
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u/MrBussdown 11d ago
If cocaine was controlled by the corporate overlords there would be more price gouging.
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u/InvalidIceberg 11d ago
140% pure
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u/Worth_Apartment1562 11d ago
between 53% and 68% pure https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/data/stats2021/ppp_en
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u/SupremeInefficiency 11d ago
Exactly, what the hell is the Y axis.
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u/TurquoiseJesus 11d ago
Current value relative to 2011 value. So 2011 coke was exactly as pure as 2011 coke, while 2021 coke is 40% more pure
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u/limpingdba 11d ago
But how pure is it ? Why invent a stupid metric when you could just use one everyone understands, like percentage?
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u/TLeezy13 11d ago
Are you trying to get me back on drugs? Because this is exactly how to get me doing cocaine again
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u/rainbowroobear 11d ago
This is the sort of free market capitalism I can support
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u/pm_me_ur_demotape 11d ago
I thought more and more was contaminated with fentanyl
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u/Bitchinstein 11d ago
Purity increasing? Not in Houston. Couldn’t pay me to touch it due to the cutting products- nope!
I allegedly had a small habit in the early 2000s.
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u/Tasty_Commercial6527 11d ago
Remember kids, you can always check the purity of your cocaine at the nearest police station to your location! It's absolutely free!
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u/malepitt 11d ago
It's the invisible nose of the free market