re: Spinoff: fentanyl laced cocaine

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I just dont understand why dealers would intentionally mix it with cocaine.

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I tried to point you in the right directions with Stringer's query to his macroecon professor.


When you get down to the distributors to street-level dealers that are actually standing on corners (not driving BMWs to houses in the Hollywood Hills) the cocaine has been stepped on numerous times and might be so low potency they will need to add something, anything, to get their buyers high. Fentanyl is a plentiful extremely cheap drug that can make their dog shite cocaine actually worth selling.

The people who buy from these dealers aren't connoisseurs of fine Bolivian fish scale so they aren't used to a near-pure cocaine high, they are less discriminating.

The people who buy from these types of dealers are also more likely to be polydrug users. They are probably well acquainted with the high from a mix of cocaine and heroin which is known as a speedball. The high is supposed to be an extreme rush that mixes the high from both drugs and also reduces the negatives of each. Imagine a heroin high where you don't nod but stay awake and feel that euphoria for the entire duration of the high.

So now you know why dealers do it and why users actually like the high.




Any more questions about a subject and world that at least 50% of the population should know far more about than I do?