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The thread on Meth cities got me thinking. I'm curious to know what city you live in and what the dominant drugs are (excluding marijuana). Who controls the drug trade?
In Chicago I'd say it's heroin and cocaine, both highly controlled by street gangs.
This was found at http://www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/CEWG/CEWG_ABS600.pdf (broken link). It is out of date, but I doubt these are not still issues.
DRUG TRENDS IN ST. LOUIS Heidi Israel-Adams Division of Infectious Diseases St. Louis University School of Medicine
James Topolski, Ph.D. Division of Evaluation, Policy, and EtMissouri Institute of Mental Health St. Louis, Missouri
Heroin and methamphetamine are increasingly prominent in most St. Louis indicators, and heroin presents a major prevention and law enforcement concern in St. Louis City and County. Heroin is available and substantially pure. County law enforcement personnel are increasingly concerned with methamphetamine use, and methamphetamine labs in rural areas are a major problem. Club drugs, such as MDMA (“ecstasy”) and gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), have an increasing presence in St. Louis. In the St. Louis area, 5,379 cases of HIV infection and AIDS have been identified through September 1999.
For inquiries concerning this report, please contact James Topolski, Ph.D., Director, Evaluation, Policy & Ethics, Missouri Institute of Mental Health, 5400 Arsenal Street, Room A317, St. Louis, MO 63139, Phone: (314) 644-8574, Fax: (314) 644-7934, E-mail: [topolski@mimh.edu
I suppose it also changes based on your economics and the culture you involve yourself in.
I'd say in Chicago, pot is EVERYWHERE. People sit on the street and smoke and no one seems to care. I feel like every time I meet a new friend, or talk to new coworkers in my accounting office people just associate pot as being a fairly normal thing. Certainly not paranoid about it.
Coke is a pretty big drug here (i'm assuming everywhere though, right?). I stay away, but it seems half the people I meet have dabbled in it at one point or another. In the gay scene there are a lot of big hookups that I've heard multiple friends mention.
Extacy also seems to be pretty common here among most groups. I usually see it being used fairly relaxingly, people will just drop a pill and go out to the bars without any huge expectations.
I'm assuming it's that way in most of the country though, right? I don't see meth much in the city except for the hard core partiers (who most people just make fun of). I think after so many years, people realized that meth isn't even really funny to mess around with. Nothing good's every come out of trying it from what I've seen or heard. Had a few friends in Iowa get messed up on it and they pretty much just wasted away and vanished.
I've noticed in Texas; PCP is starting to get bigger. Anybody that takes that stuff must be trying to kill themselves.
Anyways; in Waco we got outside of marijuana is heroin and crack cocaine. You also got syrup too. I believe Houston is about the same.
Syrup is starting to get big here in Atlanta. A few years ago extasy pills were as well, not it appears syrup is the new thing. Aside from that Atlanta is mainly Cocaine and weed. The Mexican Cartels hold the weight then break it down and distribute it to the neighborhood drug crews.
Syrup is starting to get big here in Atlanta. A few years ago extasy pills were as well, not it appears syrup is the new thing. Aside from that Atlanta is mainly Cocaine and weed. The Mexican Cartels hold the weight then break it down and distribute it to the neighborhood drug crews.
Maybe I'm not very up on the latest drugs...but what is syrup? Meth is also a very popular drug in Atlanta. You are exactly right about the cartels controling the majority of the drug trade in Atlanta...I read some FBI information not long ago that cited Atlanta as the major entry point for most of the east coast.
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Meth is also a very popular drug in Atlanta. You are exactly right about the cartels controling the majority of the drug trade in Atlanta...I read some FBI information not long ago that cited Atlanta as the major entry point for most of the east coast.
