Where are all the DRUGS?

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The UK is supposed to be a big open-air asylum for druggies, so howcum nothing's ever available except hash, E and coke/crack? Where's the acid gone? Why hasn't crystal meth made an appearance? PCP? A technical explanation of the logistics and economies of scale of drug dealing would be appreciated, because there seems to have been a drought of most things for a long time. Or do I just know the wrong people?

― dave q, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Just to throw in some sexism/classism - are Es and spliff the most widely available because they also appeal to denim-jacketed girls who don't use consonants? Are there any significant gender preferences when it comes to chemicals?

― dave q, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, why is the quality of stuff here so shitty? The weed I remember from Canada rendered you unable to even move your eyelids after two puffs, whereas the crap here, you could do bong hits all night and still drive home blindfolded. I wanna get completely destroyed dammit!

― dave q, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You DO know the wrong people.

― DG, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah Dave, change yr dealers. An awful lot of the skunk for sale in London comes from Holland, and you can't tell me that isn't a powerful smoke. Avoid UK homegrown tho', that normally is rubbish, and most of the bog-standard weed passed off as Thai or Sensi is usually nothing of the kind.

What's the diff between PCP and crystal meth, btw? And what are the effects of meth - is it trippy or buzzing?

― Andrew L, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

PCP is like ketamine, makes everything into a cartoon pinball game. Maybe pachinko. Crystal meth is rocket fuel that gives you a coke- like buzz (WITHOUT the swelled ego), except way more intense, for days on end.

― dave q, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Methamphetamine has been fairly easy to get hold of in the North East for at least the last 15 years. Though for some reason it never comes in crystal form - it used to be like sticky brown toffee, but these days it's more often like a light-blue putty. The putty kind is potent as hell - just an amount the size of a match-head will set you off for 12 hours. Don't know why in London you can't even get decent sulphate.

― scott, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Try living in Ireland. We can't even get weed most of the time only fucking resin. I haven't seen weed in Dublin since last February.

― Ronan, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Acid's gone missing everywhere. My housemate's been looking for months and finally found success by randomly asking some sweaty kids on 5th Ave while out walking his dog. They told him they'd "just eaten the last ones" but could get more, and produced a torn piece of paper from a pocket on which they'd already written their name and pager number.

Explanation for drought: fucking NONE because e is NOT the same (e lasts half as long and Brits may be surprised to know that it costs $20 at the cheapest over here unless you personally know a regular dealer).

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Apparently (Winchester) where I live, is the heroin trafficking centre of the south, if not all of, england, as it's a stopping off place on the way up to London from the ports. (Would explain why they've arrested about 40 heroin dealers in the last 6 months). Pretty much everything's available quite easily here, I think, due to a small population but shitloads of drugs coming through (someone told me it had the biggest drug problem in the UK but must be per capita.) Ketamine immensely easy to get hold of, I think.

― Bill, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Urk! ketamine + heroin = drug dystopia of the world?

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

would that be because of all the vets around rural Winchester? Ketamine is a horse tranquiliser isn't it?

― chris, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a some form of animal tranquilliser, yes.

― RickyT, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But Richard, humans are some form of animal (he said in a hippy way).

― Pete, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's probably still in Antwerp (Belgium). My town used to contain loadsa drugs as well but I haven't seen any lately. Maybe our family friend used it all.

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This crystal meth thing sounds totally mental. I'm not surprised it hasn't caught on over here. I can't imagine wanting to be completely monged out of my head for days on end. I think I'd get scared. Or sacked.

― Nick, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You all should come to Texas, crystal meth, coke, good pot. All are had very easily.

― Samantha, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you know, i've never had anything but dirtweed in texas. of course, i was in south houston...

― cindy, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, there's lots of dirtweed there. you can always find good stuff though if you know where to look.

― Samantha, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, where the Funkstorung is all the acid? I realised the other day that I hadn't done any for about three years, and I want some, I need some, I must have some. A couple of mates get mushrooms fairly regularly, but I like chemicals, not yr hippy-drippy natural shit. I want it to taste man-made and metallic, and everything shitloads sharper.

― emil.y, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There's no money in acid, that's why you can't get it. What do you think Reebok Classic Man prefers, LSD or coke?

― DG, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Reebok Classic Man' is that an original DG? I request a profile of this urban-mythical creature, his habits, beliefs and habitat.

― stevo, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They buy a new pair once a month to keep them clean said someone I went to school with.

― Bill, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh mushies, yummy yummy mushies. em, get yr friends to send me some. I've no idea where to find them in ox...

― carsmilesteve, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Stevo, Reebok classic man:
reebok classic trainers (although Nike Cortez are rapidly catching up)
quite tight jeans (armani or similar) or brand name tracksuit bottoms
designer brand polo shirt with collar up (brand of choice in Walthamstow currently = Hackett)
Sweatshirt also with brand blazoned across front, favourite colour at the moment = blue
baseball cap, done up too tightly at the back so it sits too high on the head thus looking dead stupid
two large gold rings in left ear
shaved head underneath hat
music of choice = UK garage (natch
they really are a lot of fun and usually sneer a lot, unless they are slurping coke out of a large maccie D's cup.

― chris at home, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We have those in Ireland too.

The girls are worse. Elesse jumpers, those earrings that look like CD's, crappy cheap dirty gold chain hanging over jumper. Disgusting greasy hair.

― Ronan, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

MMM dirty celtrock girls.

― Nick, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

impure thoughts mean you're going to hell.

― Ronan, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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