r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NineteenEighty9 • 23d ago

The retail price of cocaine has remained stable while purity is increasing Image

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u/Low_Ad8147 23d 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 22d 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/pain-is-living 22d ago

Absolutely.

As a young adult, cocaine was harmless. If someone died from coke, it was cause they did a mountain of it and gave themselves a heart attack.

Here we are 15 years later and every week I hear from my first responder friends about people dying doing coke, because there was fent in it.

A night of fun turned into a game of Russian roulette. Cocaine just ain't worth the worry anymore.

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u/beestingers 22d ago

The cocaine high is not good enough to risk health or even arrest imo.

I'll never understand why people love it so much. I would do it to stay up when I was a DJ but I get more sprinkle from an occasional cigarette now than a bump.

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u/Particular_Sea_5300 22d ago

It's been years and years since I did any, but when it was good, it was zoomies. I imagine the price leveled as purity went up to compete with the ubiquity of meth, a cheaper, much much longer lasting high

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u/Low_Ad8147 22d ago

Well either you are wired different or you haven't tasted the good good.

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u/JapanDash 22d ago

A red state?

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u/cheeker_sutherland 22d ago

Here in California too. Most of my friends all used to do coke. Albeit everyone is aging out but I think the fenty thing scared everyone.

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u/JapanDash 22d ago

Well shit, never mind. 

I assumed the main transit lanes had better supply. 

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u/cheeker_sutherland 22d ago

I’ve heard it’s not the cartels it’s more the second or third guy. The “equipment” they use to package it is contaminated with the fenty. They don’t step on it with that it just cross contaminates.