I haven’t been able to buy hash in half a year. I ran out of my last batch of brownies a few months ago. Everyone is talking about this bullshit crackdown they’re doing – raids on the border and in the Sinai, and busts on people who are growing it at home.
I used to buy from a friend, but she’s left the country semi-permanently. I was paying NIS 100 for five grams. Now I understand that prices have doubled, that dealers are not accepting new clients, that they might not even be willing to sell me so little (which lasts me for several months in my very potent brownies), and that even if I consented to buy double the quantity at quadruple the price, the quality would be complete shit.
I like to get high pretty conservatively: I make sure all my work is done for the day, that the dog has been walked and fed and watered, then I eat a brownie and do things like listen to Miles Davis and read poetry.
The drug war sucks.
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HAHA. I tried to get some in Tel Aviv when I was there but couldn’t because of the recent busts.
It makes us out as very inhospitable.
I attended a rock music festival the other day, here in Canada. The air was thick with the scent of pot smoke (which made me gag, since I personally don’t care for the stuff); the musicians could even smell it up, and commented from the stage. Girlfriends on their boyfriends shoulders, up above the crowd, openly toking up. And you know what the dozens and dozens of police there were doing about it? Nothing! Which is exactly the way it should be.
Fricking U.S. gov’t and its stupid Jihad on Drugs. We’ll never get away, of course, with completely legalizing it here, as the moment we’d try to, Yank tanks would roll across the border. But we can all but legalize it, by non-enforcement of the laws, by decriminalizing small amounts, etc. And in fact, to some degree, I like the idea of not fully legalizing it, thus preventing the State from gaining tax revenue off it, or corporations from making a buck off it. That part’s all good.
The problem with keeping it formally illegal but just not enforcing the laws is that it remains as a black market, with all the associated problems. Disputes between buyers and sellers in a black market, or between multiple sellers, can’t be resolved in the court system, so they’re more likely to be handled violently. Police protection is unavailable, so criminal gangs are enlisted. The costs of maintaining a gang are passed on to the consumer. Eventually, the gangs grow to take over the trade. As they get stronger and fight over territory, supply and pricing, innocent bystanders get killed in shootouts. And then politicians step in, talking about how the law must be enforced and a “drug war” must be waged to Keep The Streets Safe For The Children.
True enough. I’ve thought that if an announcement could be made that the laws would no longer be enforced, or if not an official announcement, getting the word out somehow, then the prices would drop (less risk = less profitable); moreover, if people who liked it could be encouraged to grow it themselves rather than getting it from a dealer, that could cut out the gang problem. Shoot, I know a guy who’d been in trouble with the law for being involved with a gang involved in the drug trade; he now simply grows his own, for his own use. If only others could be similarly persuaded…