I understand the guys who got addicted to pain pills because of injury and then switched to heroin because they were cut off. But the people who started using heroin only, c'mon. That was the one drug they always told you never to do because of how bad it could end up being for you. So my question for you guys who either have kids, brothers, cousins, friends, etc who are hooked on it is this: how did they get started on these things?
I'm going to jump in right here. I didn't read this thread because I never did herion, don't know anyone that told me they did, never heard it discussed among people I was with. Don't take that to mean that I haven't been around idiots. I've had good friends shoot what they thought was cocaine in front of me and then make fun of me because I wouldn't shoot it.
As a child of the 60's, when heroin was actually an epidemic, I knew at that time I would never do it. Not bragging because I did some morphine one time. oral, and it made my stomach hurt so bad I called a hospital and asked them if it would quit. They said yes so I dealt with it.
As far as putting people in jail forever for selling it, bullshit. They don't sell it to a single person that doesn't want to buy it. If I sell you a car that will go 155 mph, not my fault if you do that and hit a tree.
I used to sling coke around 1985 in Champagne Il. I got flake from a dude for 800 an ounce. Couldn't pass it up. Lot's of people I worked with did it. Hell, everyone everywhere was doing it. I ground it up to add some fluff, but the stuff that I sold was just as pure as the stuff I bought. The stuff I kept for personal use I cut with inositol.
It didn't take long for a college town to know where the best dope was coming from. I'd go out around 11 at night to a couple of specific bars. When I came in it was like clockwork, 20 dudes would head to the bathroom, chase out anyone there, block the door and benjamins would fly. Unload an ounce in two minutes and be gone. That was a 2K profit with no cut.
I can say with utmost certainty that not one person died from the coke I sold. I don't care what they did with it, no one died unless they crashed their car or something.
Guy that I worked with, lived with, partner in crime, got touched up and stole from people. They came at me pissed. Things went beyond what I was willing to deal with and I made a decision that things had gone too far. This was a month after I lost my job that gave me 1140 a week take home. I couldn't afford to go to work some times. If you can make 2 in 30 minutes, why go to work?
Never sold anything again to this day.
Should I have been in jail all this time?
Sad that your kid died, not the drug dealers fault. My car will go 155, not their fault if I kill your mother doing that. Could just as easily have been an Audi.
