+Dimitri exports But that's the purpose of the laws. It's not about protecting people from drug addiction, it's about locking up and disenfranchising the Blacks and the poor. Reagan created a legal entrapment. Stiffening drug laws while funding latin American narco governments which lead to an increase in Cocaine availability in the US.
+Alex Daniel That's a cute little delusion you have there. Are we the only country with criminal penalties for drugs? Oh no? Its in all countries you say? So how is this specially about blacks? Go to Thailand, you do know the penalties there are about 10 times harsher than in America... so are the Thais trying to oppress American Blacks too? You've heard of the Philipines I assume, I guess they are targeting blacks too... gosh your theory is starting to make no sense.
@Baruch Bacon Cocaine is NOT a narcotic type drug. It doesn't mimic opiates or synthetic opiate drugs. Cocaine is simply a stimulant, not a narcotic! It seems you are very very misinformed and it's not your fault. I'll try to break it down to you, so you have a better understanding. About 50 years ago there was a court case where a man was in possession of a large amount of cocaine. On the indictment, it stated the defendant was in possession of "the narcotic drug cocaine." Being cocaine isn't a narcotic drug, the indictment was wrong. The defendant hired drug experts to testify on his behalf. The defendant's attorney asked one expert after another one simple question. The question was, "is cocaine a narcotic?" Every answer from that question was "no, cocaine is not a narcotic drug." It's a stimulant. After the testimony, the judge had to throw out the indictment, as it wasn't accurate. So, the laws had to be rewritten. To prevent another case being dismissed because they had no idea what they were talking about when it came to a description of illicit drugs. Nowadays, to make it simple for drug enforcement, they blanketed every illicit drug as a "narcotic" including marijuana. So, these cop "narcotic" teams used the term freely. It made the job description easier, when a cop is assigned to the "narcotics" division. So, nowadays...in the eyes of the law, all drugs are considered "narcotics." But, in the eyes of medicine, only opiate based drugs are actually narcotics. Also, the word "narcotic" is based on the Greek word ναρκωσις (narcosis), the term used by Hippocrates for the process of numbing or the numbed state, using an opiate based drug.
I feel so bad. When i was in New York 2013, all i do was using Heroin and now when i sober (third year) i miss that city, i cant remember NYC...all i remember was suffering... now i want to go there. Thank you for video.
@@foxmulder4196 you nailed it about triggers!! I've been clean of herion(and all drugs) for 23 yrs and almost 9 months after using it for over 25 yrs. I'm a substance abuse recovery coach doing what I can to make sure they don't suffer and had the misery that I had. Luckly I never got aids but I have hepatitis C and alot of other physical problems due to my drug use. There is nothing cool about being a junkie.
HI MY NAME IS ALEX AN I HAVE A PROBLEM, SAD TO SAY IM IN MY BATHROOM RIGHT NOW DOING DOPE, (IM USING MY WIFE PHONE, THATS WHY U SEE HER NAME) THE ONE GOOD THING I HAVE IS MY WIFE OF 24YRS IN MARCH, SHE NEVER, SMOKED, DRINK, OR ANY DRUGS BESIDES A PIAN PILL FOR A HEADACHE, WHEN SHE FOUND OUT I WAS GETTING HIGH SHE CRIED LIKE A CHILD MY TAIL WAS BETWEEN MY LEGS I NEVER FELT SO LOW, IM 43 I STARTED WHEN I WAS 27, AN IT WAS BY FAR THE DUMBEST THING I'VE EVER DONE, I KNOW THE GOOD LORD WILL SEE ME THREW THIS, AN I WILL BE THE MAN IM SUPPOSED TO BE, GOD BLESS YOU GUYS AN KEEP FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT!
Out of all the the drugs out there, heroin does NO organic damage to your body. However, if your getting crap, cut with bullshit, the cut might be bad for you. If you just have a tiny chippy and you snort it, but not everyday where you don't become hooked, your doing no damage to your lifestyle. These are just the facts I personally experienced during the 80's in NYC. But, everyone is different.
If you have absolutely no experience with actual opiates, then it would be impossible for you to understand. Opiate type drugs stand in an entire different class. A can of beer is more organically damaging to your body than a $5 or $10 bag of heroin. Trust me, I have 36 years experience here in New York City.
The only problem is that the substance is illegal and dealers just cares about money so they usually sell you crap, expecially in the last ten years. I decided to shift into pure opium, but at a certain point it became difficult to have a normal life because I couldn't even travel without having a cold turkey and I was always broke. Now I'm on suboxone which I hate, but at least it makes my life easier. I say it again: the only problem is that it's illegal.
I was raised, like most, to just "hate" this substance and to not think further into it. And as a "good boy", i did just that throughout the years... until one day heroin saved my life. It rescued me from an extreme depression that had evolved into suicidal mania. It eased my mind and gave me back calmness and passion for life. Without it i would have gone suffering as a "zombie" or killed myself at some point. As a bonus, i found out that heroin also compensated for my health shortcomings. You see, i always had a fragile health since i remember (always down with the flu or some other sickness, easily tired, poor apetite, etc). I discovered then that my body simply didn't produce enough endorphins to let me enjoy a normal healthy life, at least not on the level of "normal" people, which didn't seem fair to me since health is no luxury and a life without it is a life without dignity. But heroin not only fixed that, it actually made me feel *super* healthy, at a level i can't describe to you. This happened about 5 or 6 years ago and since i've been lucky enough to afford it, i made the clear minded decision of just keep using. I could have quit after the depression was over, but why go back to the old lifeless me when i now had a cure? Every now and then i still get the usual "oh poor you. You use heroin? Why don't you seek help to fix that problem?", lol, and i have to explain that i have *no problem* at all, neither do i wanna fix a good thing; i use it the same way other people take other medication and i feel no shame about it because the taboo is all inside the minds of people, induced by pressures of society. After all, what harm am i doing to anyone?
The documentary mentions that the price for heroin in Piccadilly Circus London. Prior to 1971 the UK had only a few heroin addicts and they were registered and collected their prescriptions from Boots The Chemist in Piccadilly Circus London.
Yep. This is the same why dope in the UK needs to be cooked up with citric acid, they don’t get a post production product (or didn’t, now ironically they still have REAL heroin - where that’s seemingly disappeared from most major cities these days.. thank god I stopped doing heroin 8 years ago. So many friends have died in the last 3..)
Good luck with your recovery. There are subjects better not discussed in public. I was reaching out to anyone that might still be alive from the 1960s.
Damn I'll do anything for some shit out of the 70s.. shit just had to be 2000 times better then the crap out here now... I need to build a time machine!!
Richard Willette alcohol IS a drug but of course a legal drug same thing with cigarettes nicotine is a drug ,,same thing with marijuana is a drug but now they’re decriminalizing making it legal
50 years ago they understood addiction was a disease that needs treatment and compassion from the community. That's basically 2 full generations, why is there still any sort of stigma about addiction? Like this documentary says, one of the two ways to combat the problem is from the users end through therapy.
Back then it was mostly Afro-decendants and Brown skinned peoples that were addicted. So the euro-decendants that are in control did not care! Drug addiction was a "good" way to keep people of color incarcerated with felony convictions which limits their voting power! Addiction, the ghettos is just another form of "reservations" or forms of "concentration" camps that limits a peoples movement or progress. They just can't murder people like they use to so addiction and poverty is another form of control. But, today there are more Euro-Americans becoming addicted and now addiction has become a health hazard and an illness that needs to be treated! Today, busssimen are making billions selling legalized pot! But yet the for over 40 years people of color lives have been ruined with felony convictions for small amounts of drugs, millions of people that cannot vote! I believe it has been a conspiracy to maintain control and keep people from progressing.
Government keeps drug addiction as the enemy worth fighting to keep the drug trade alive and profitable for the CIA to continue the herion trade .the truth
addiction is NOT a "disease". 😂 It's not contagious, and it's not genetic - it's an addiction - people addict to anything, television, junk food, exercising, morning caffeine, people, etc.
Great movie "French Connection" with Gene Hackman as " Popye Doyle" was in it . Movie came out 70-71. But, King Cocaine was comming in like a Tsunami , as wll as Disco ( Crack scourge)
Synanon was the organization that "Inherent Vice" was based around. the original "rattlesnake in the mailbox" group wasn't Scientology but this group. The attorney who almost died on his front porch in the late 70s and wrote a book about it talks about the ordeal in an interview with Ed Opperman on "The Ed Opperman Program" here on YT
Yeah, a deck is simply 1 glassine bag of white dope. They had $4, $5 and normally $10 bags of good white junk, you did not even need to cook it most of the time, it just dissolved in your cooker like coke and the dope smelled like medicine. Directly across the street from my building were the projects and each building's court yard had a crew selling their own stamp. So, it was good and plentiful...to put $5 together was easy and you could do half the bag and be nodding nicely. So, it was hard not to do, dope lasts for hours. Crack only lasts a few minutes and it's one vial after another. With dope, if you knew what you were doing, it was easy to stay ahead of withdrawal. As soon as you had your wake up, you could take your time to put your money together to stay right. It was total bliss and utopia. Mostly the longest time anyone stayed sick was if you got pinched. But, you would get straight if the judge sent you to Rikers Island, after you saw the doctor and you told him you were dope sick, they'd give you a decent dose of methadone and you had two choices, you could slowly detox using the methadone or you could get on the Keep program, that means they would maintain you on methadone and once released, you would simply report to a program on the street or go back to doing junk. So, if you liked junk, NYC was the place to be, especially during the 70's, 80's and mid 90's. Now, the game has changed a little. But, it's still out there.....
@@DaveNiceNYC Yeah I was a snorter don't like needles and saw too many bad results with that. Plus now when you buy it's mostly about weight .5 gram gram etc and getting good shit is hit or miss and hopefully your shit doesn't have fentanyl in it. i live an hour away from Chicago by car so it's plentiful and I could meet the guys half way and never have to go to the hood. This is a cpl years ago I imagine it's still the same.
@@83reggieT I started off snorting way back close to 40 years ago. I'd buy a bag and as I was walking from the spot, I'd crack it open and just inhale the entire bag, within 30 seconds, I felt bliss and utopia. I won't lie, it made me a better person, I felt good, I looked good, I could fuck all night, I looked foreword to going to work, I was eating good, when I worked out...it did not hurt my muscles, it took all my depression away....I had found the key and it was so cheap and easy to get, it was on every block and there was never a panic. I started using a spike, because this chick was using a spike. I met her on the lower East side and bumped into her uptown and she asked me to cop for her, she heard uptown dope was better. While I was copping, she bought two sets of works. I had the key to my elevators in my building. So, I could get into one of the elevators and stop it between floors....perfect place for a little privacy. So, she handed me a set and she hooked her shot up, after she did her shot, I asked her to hook my shot up, after doing it, I felt like I was floating on a cloud of tits, I felt reborn...even more so than snorting. But, in those days the dope was not cut with bullshit. You could even skin pop it and be fine. I could get 4 shots out of one bag. Hence, $10 could hold my everyday habit. Then I discovered speedballs, you could get caps of raw coke starting at $2 (duces) and it was incredible. Sadly, I was doing one speedballs after another. Coke is a suckers drug, weather you smoke, shoot or snort it. But, heroin is a gift from God. When they were detoxing me from Methadone in the late 80's when I was on Rulers Island, I never really kicked, as I was getting other people's doses...then someone snitched, saying I was shaking down other inmates for their methadone and they moved me to a different block where nobody got methadone. I was sick as a dog. I had no choice but ask my wife to bring me junk on every visit. The visiting room had contact visits and she put the bags in a pair of my briefs she would wear under her skirt. As soon as she sat down, I looked around and then grabbed a bag, I quickly opened it and inhaled it and like magic, all the pain went away....I was so grateful I had a wife like that. She was not a user. But, knew where to cop. Back then the jail was lax. So before the visited ended, I grabbed the remaining bags and put them in my briefs I had under the visiting room jumpsuit. So, when they called for our visit to end, we tossed the jumpsuits into a bin, we stood facing the hacks and all we had to do is pull down our drawers and squat and that was it, I still had the dope in my drawers...we put our street clothes on and went to our blocks. I felt great! Plus, I had enough junk to hold me till my next visit. I didn't tell anyone I was scoring. But, they could hear me throwing up from time to time. But, I always denied having anything....even though my pale blue eyes were super pinned and reddish...LOL I'm tough, but not tough enough to take on 50 dope fiends at once...LOL Finally I had to go to the state system to do my time and I started to kick at reception...I couldn't wait to go to a regular prison and cop. Normally it was 5 bags for $100. So $20 a bag was cheap for prison prices. Those same bags cost $30 in northern NY. I finally kicked all together and just bought a couple bags during the weekends. When I was finally released, I copped as soon as I got off the bus back home. My parole officer took one look at my eyes and said I wasted no time...LOL So, he told me to simply get on methadone and I've been on it over 30 years and haven't been in handcuffs since. I only go once a week, I drink it in the evenings, as I'm a night person...I'm about to drink 180mg right now, the real original orange diskettes, have dinner, take a time and relax. So, I don't bother trying to chase bags of today's dope. The methadone is good enough for me. 😃
@@jeffjohnston1961 I could write a book that's just as good or even better than the book Junky by William Burroughs. But, his tales stem from a different era. Nevertheless, a habit is a habit. I was a Harlem addict and now in 2024, Harlem has changed. You won't find junk on every block like it was during the 80's and before. I'm too old for that nonsense now. Even though I miss those days, I still reminisce about it. Burroughs played a cameo roll in the movie Drugstore Cowboy with Matt Dillon. Burroughs is a great writer and kind of proves you can die of old age having a habit. He was on Methadone prior to his death from Kansas City, I have photos of his take home bottles from his program in Kansas, I found the photos on the net. He was an interesting person. Watch the TV miniseries Godfather of Harlem with Forrest Whitaker, it shows the way it was back in the days.
Every time I go on a dope run it ends bad because of lack of money. Fucking expensive $200 a g when it should be like $50. If I could find it for that price I could keep my shit together and wouldn't crash and burn stealing and shit for that next hit.
I guess it depends on where you live, when I was using I could get $5 bags that could get 4 people straight and nodding, white dope...not that tar crap or brown crap. A gram costs about $120 and you could whack it 2 or 3 times and it was still strong, a gram on NYC dope could keep you going and nodding for a week. The reason it is better to get loose bags is it's easier to space out your shots. But, like I said, it depends on where you are from. A pack of cigarettes costs $15 a pack in NYC. Meanwhile, a bag of junk is still the same price after 40 years. Go figure. If you are struggling that bad, you should just get on a methadone program and your sick days will vanish all together. Good luck!!
Yesterday afternoon I was walking up 3rd ave between 86th and 87th street when I saw a kid who looked about 19 prepping his needle. He was skinny with long matted hair and he had somewhat of a skater look. And there he was just walking down the street heroin in one hand, needle in the other. I’m sure this is a common sight for some of you but it was my first time seeing something like that.
Ha, I too have prepped my needle between 86st & 87st on Third 35+ years ago. The difference is, I was actually using Heroin. What that kid had was not heroin, it was chemicals. Those people are called Hope Fiends...its a sad state of affairs in this era.
it changes from the stupid tv sensationalists shows that we can watch norwadays. (sorry for the english mistakes)... by the way I'm from Marseille in France, and heroin destroyed so many lives here. 70's was a gangster's paradise in France.
As the video somewhat stated, no person should be in trouble for simply possessing drugs ever ever ever... Tell your senators and representatives this because they are simply people hurting trying to cope with life and not trying to destroy anyone else’s...
I could never get addicted, ya the feeling is pure bliss but I puke 🤮 bad every time. It’s like hit, rush, calm , euphoria and relaxation, then violent puking always. I don’t know my body has always been weird. I just stay away from everything now.
Until society cares about people who use heroine people will use heroine to escape from society.... I recently read that and it makes sense. I'm not defending its use. Far from it. But something new needs to happen. Most people's lives are full of love and caring and most people don't use heroine. Just a thought.
Yeah, actually they suck. Here in NYC we call them ba-pers (from the word 'eyedropper'). It's an eye dropper attached to a spike...you normally have to take a small piece of paper...normally a corner from a dollar bill and place the paper around the tip of the dropper and attach the spike, this way it's a snug fit and your spike wont come off. But, many times it slips off while doing your shot. Its old school, you are better off using a regular diabetic syringe with the orange cap or even better, a blue tip hypo. Those ba-pers are not reliable in my opinion. Plus, you can get air bubbles in your vein.
The old style, reusable, glass, stainless steel and chrome etc hypodermics that are carried in cases look quite classy, high quality and well engineered pieces of surgical equipment. But they are also very heavy and if you start to gouch or nod out with the needle still in place, if you are not careful the whole thing can slip from your hand and damage your arms etc before it falls out. They are much heavier and stronger than the disposable plastic hypodermics normally used and I think that they could be used as a small weapon for self protection. They are probably in demand as collectors items.
Thank you. I've seen it all and done it all to the fullest. You can get a better insight by viewing my FB page, I've got nothing hidden. facebook.com/DAVENICENYC
@Dill Rogerz Actually, it's not. It only seems that way because now white suburbia is being affected by the opiates. If you go to Harlem now and walk from 110st to 150st, you'll find it next to impossible to cop a bag, as it's next to extinct here in what was once the Heroin Capital. Now, you'd never know Heroin saturated every single block, river to river. But, because it's now in white suburbia, it's considered rampant. Use common sense my brother. 1 💘
I hope you got some help. Get you into a sub program if not i lost quite a few ppl to dope. (Its super rampant where i live, one of the worst citys for it, its on every single block except half is fentanyl. )
I'm from that era, doing what is depicted in this video and I'm alive and well. I have a good wife and family. The drug heroin doesn't cause damage to your body, it's the lack of taking care of your body that kills you. I'm in touch with most of my friends I grew up with in NYC and I'd say 90% are alive and well. Be cool!
@Dill Rogerz Actually, I converted to Methadone about 25 years ago. When I became older, I got tired of the chase, even though it was pretty easy to maintain here in NYC. I just got tired is all. I've kicked junk many times. But, Methadone is a better fit for me personally. I go to my private program and I'm given 7 doses of 180mg, so I drink a bottle of 180mg a day. I drink it in the evenings, as I'm a night person. So, with the Meth, my eyes stay pinned, I take prescribed Benzos and with a toke or two of weed, I'm good. I know Methadone is more addictive and more damaging than junk. But, the pros outweigh the cons...for me.
@@DaveNiceNYC Wow..no kidding, the fashions, car models, etc., look so much earlier..or so I thought. I also watched a 1964 doco set in New York about the same thing too. (Check it out!) Not much has changed between the two docos...and now, maybe?
@@mebeasensei That's only an 8 year difference. How many really noticeable changes have occurred between 2011 to 2019? Me, I don't really see any major changes. You know what I mean? But, I know what you mean too...there was more radical changes from the 60's to the 70's. My DeVille is 18 years old and it's in good condition and when parked next to other cars it really doesn't look like an old fashioned car, it's still pretty streamlined. You know what I mean? Of course you do.
@@DaveNiceNYC I think it's just very random footage of people who really didn't look modern. All of them from officials to users really looked like from late 1960s, than from 1972. But it's hard to expect drug user or even government official being fashionable.
I'm not sure I understand your post. I remember when those Jumbos first hit Harlem during the summer of 85'. I was going to cop a bag of Dust on 111st between 7th and St. Nicholas and they were handing out vials to the folks that spent money. I was already hip to Freebasing. But, this was different, now the rocks were already cooked up and ready to smoke. I crunched up the rocks from the free vial and put it with weed, it's called a Woola. After the first drag, my head was ringing. I went back 10 minutes later to cop a $10 vial, then the prices started to drop to $8 and then to $5 and then they had the Deuces and the Tre's ($2 & $3 vials). By then, everyone was using a stem to smoke it and I watched Harlem go from rough, to bad then to the worst. By the time 89' came around, it had brought Harlem down to its knees. But, not just Harlem, it was everywhere and I mean everywhere! I'm glad them days are over. It was nuts!! A Crack habit makes Heroin look like Bubblegum. A bag of dope lasts for hours, a hit of Crack only lasts minutes and you get so thirsty for it. Crack is a suckers drug!
@@DaveNiceNYC Im 44 be 45 in October.my research that heroin.did a lot of damage to Harlem to Back in the late 60s and 70s. Way before the crack ecodimic.I see footage of nikki barnes and frank lucas days from there dealers on 116 and 7th avenue and other spots of Harlem.I see footage of little kids, pregnant woman's was hooked on heroin.people arms was big from shooting up. Pee wee Kirkland .freddie myers and others was the blue print.of destroying Harlem and other boroughs way before the crack ecodimic.
Gotta love how specially made to be racist and guilt free, these were; so Americans importing a bunch of drugs isn't as bad as some poor farmer who gains miserably, for the starting product or that kid who had 1ounce inside that ice cream... probably saving it for some known, rich murican singer.
Sucks,right? You can't compare pure China White or Colombian White to Black Tar (yuck). With white powder heroin, you can snort it and feel bliss. Can you snort Tar? LOL
Dave I understand where you're coming from but then again I don't. So, you're basically saying it's ok to be a functioning addict. I know you're an adult you should do you but to come on a public forum like this and advocate illicit drug use is crazy. You're no better than a homeless junkie asking for dollars. But I sense this superiority complex you have going on which creeps me out even more. You've apparently been on dope for decades and have had NO problems related to your drug use? It's been all rainbows and sunshine? Refuse to believe that man. Come on, you were shooting up in abandoned houses with a street junkie if that's not the lowest of the low I don't know what is. I would just hope that no impressionable young people read your comments and get the wrong idea. Because you have it all so wrong.
Please don't let my experiences and my fact finding creep you out. "A homeless junkie asking for dollars and shooting up in abandoned houses." Actually you have it all wrong and it's not your fault, due to the fact you're clearly not from a major urban city for starters (not that it really matters, using is using). There's no "houses" in Manhattan. In any event, if you've never felt pure relief or utopia from real opiates, then it would be impossible for you to truly understand how opiates can be to a person's benefit. Heroin actually saved my life and opiates make life less stressful for me (I'm speaking for myself). I wouldn't want anyone getting a simple junk habit just for the hell of it. However, if a person is suffering from severe mental anguish (or other painful ailments)--and can't face the world for whatever reason and if by a fluke they snort a nickel of junk and all those years of suffering came to an instant halt-- because of self medicating, and the subject is now able to take on the world--that means, the pros outweigh the cons. If the subject knows what is entailed regarding the use of the drug and simply stays ahead of being in withdrawal and lives a happier and more successful life, I'd call that a success story. You'll find heroin success stories all over the net, even on this page. Unfortunately, some people don't know what their getting themselves into and abuse opiates for cheap thrills, then that's a problem and I'd never condone that type of use. Yes, I indeed get it, I actually don't have it wrong. Peace and Love! PS, opiates have been used for 1000's of years. Before the political Harrison Narcotics Act, the Bayer company (among other companies) produced tins of heroin that was sold over the counter as a cure all--like if you had a cold, a snort or two took the symptoms away. Woolworth even sold it.
Right on! But, were are comparing apples to oranges. Here's a face to put with my words, I'm happy, in love and successful. Take care now. Here's my FB page. :) facebook.com/DAVENICENYC
BTW, I haven't used an illicit drug in over 25 years. You have scant info about me. I'm simply sharing my personal experiences and what I've seen growing up in New York City. It seems you're from Europe (if I'm wrong, forgive me--Americans don't use the term "quid"). Sorry you're so creeped out. You seem smart. But, very young. So, there's not much you can tell me. I've seen it all and done it all to the fullest. As for my teeth--I admit, I have 3 fillings that I got before I was 17. You have to stop assuming things about me. But, I'm flattered you've taken such an interest. Cheers!
Dave Nice well, I'm sorry if I came off so strong but I have seen people that I love dearly have their lives completely destroyed by drugs. You are truly an exception. You're ideas and attitudes toward the recreational use of illicit hard drugs just threw me off that's all.
I've had many family and friends screw up their lives with other drugs like cocaine, pills and booze. I'd say booze is the biggest killer combined....I'm actually not an exception, many of my colleagues have the same experiences as me. Cheers Mate!
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thanks for posting we need to show that over 100 years of prohibition has DONE NOTHING but harm...
+Dimitri exports But that's the purpose of the laws. It's not about protecting people from drug addiction, it's about locking up and disenfranchising the Blacks and the poor. Reagan created a legal entrapment. Stiffening drug laws while funding latin American narco governments which lead to an increase in Cocaine availability in the US.
That's good. But, we're talking about opiate narcotics. Cocaine is not a narcotic...it can't be compared to opiate drugs. But, I hear your point.
+Alex Daniel That's a cute little delusion you have there. Are we the only country with criminal penalties for drugs? Oh no? Its in all countries you say? So how is this specially about blacks? Go to Thailand, you do know the penalties there are about 10 times harsher than in America... so are the Thais trying to oppress American Blacks too? You've heard of the Philipines I assume, I guess they are targeting blacks too... gosh your theory is starting to make no sense.
You'er very very misinformed if you think cocaine isn't a narcotic...
@Baruch Bacon
Cocaine is NOT a narcotic type drug. It doesn't mimic opiates or synthetic opiate drugs. Cocaine is simply a stimulant, not a narcotic!
It seems you are very very misinformed and it's not your fault. I'll try to break it down to you, so you have a better understanding.
About 50 years ago there was a court case where a man was in possession of a large amount of cocaine. On the indictment, it stated the defendant was in possession of "the narcotic drug cocaine." Being cocaine isn't a narcotic drug, the indictment was wrong. The defendant hired drug experts to testify on his behalf.
The defendant's attorney asked one expert after another one simple question. The question was, "is cocaine a narcotic?" Every answer from that question was "no, cocaine is not a narcotic drug." It's a stimulant.
After the testimony, the judge had to throw out the indictment, as it wasn't accurate. So, the laws had to be rewritten. To prevent another case being dismissed because they had no idea what they were talking about when it came to a description of illicit drugs.
Nowadays, to make it simple for drug enforcement, they blanketed every illicit drug as a "narcotic" including marijuana. So, these cop "narcotic" teams used the term freely. It made the job description easier, when a cop is assigned to the "narcotics" division.
So, nowadays...in the eyes of the law, all drugs are considered "narcotics." But, in the eyes of medicine, only opiate based drugs are actually narcotics.
Also, the word "narcotic" is based on the Greek word ναρκωσις (narcosis), the term used by Hippocrates for the process of numbing or the numbed state, using an opiate based drug.
Opium was used in earlier ages for pain relief not just some mystic drug.
I feel so bad. When i was in New York 2013, all i do was using Heroin and now when i sober (third year) i miss that city, i cant remember NYC...all i remember was suffering... now i want to go there. Thank you for video.
You are a Virus spreading all over America.
You want to go to New York for what?to get high all over again.People places and things that are a trigger one must avoid.
@@foxmulder4196 you nailed it about triggers!! I've been clean of herion(and all drugs) for 23 yrs and almost 9 months after using it for over 25 yrs. I'm a substance abuse recovery coach doing what I can to make sure they don't suffer and had the misery that I had. Luckly I never got aids but I have hepatitis C and alot of other physical problems due to my drug use. There is nothing cool about being a junkie.
@@michaelvolgare4454 I been clean since November 1 2007 a brief relapse in 2009 but back on track September 2009 clean ever since....
HI MY NAME IS ALEX AN I HAVE A PROBLEM, SAD TO SAY IM IN MY BATHROOM RIGHT NOW DOING DOPE,
(IM USING MY WIFE PHONE, THATS WHY U SEE HER NAME) THE ONE GOOD THING I HAVE IS MY WIFE OF 24YRS IN MARCH, SHE NEVER, SMOKED, DRINK, OR ANY DRUGS BESIDES A PIAN PILL FOR A HEADACHE, WHEN SHE FOUND OUT I WAS GETTING HIGH SHE CRIED LIKE A CHILD MY TAIL WAS BETWEEN MY LEGS I NEVER FELT SO LOW, IM 43 I STARTED WHEN I WAS 27, AN IT WAS BY FAR THE DUMBEST THING I'VE EVER DONE, I KNOW THE GOOD LORD WILL SEE ME THREW THIS, AN I WILL BE THE MAN IM SUPPOSED TO BE, GOD BLESS YOU GUYS AN KEEP FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT!
"A passport from reality..."
That's gorgeous.
7:58 a majority of that confiscated heroin in the evidence room was switched out with Baking soda powder by NYPD & resold to high level dealers.
yea....its what the french connection is loosely based on-
Hey its Johnny thunders ⛈️
This was so much information I’m so satisfied
Basically present day Kensington Philadelphia
Heroin is destroying the lives of millions. When will we yell ENOUGH and start hunting dope dealers
true
Out of all the the drugs out there, heroin does NO organic damage to your body. However, if your getting crap, cut with bullshit, the cut might be bad for you.
If you just have a tiny chippy and you snort it, but not everyday where you don't become hooked, your doing no damage to your lifestyle. These are just the facts I personally experienced during the 80's in NYC. But, everyone is different.
excellent post man, so true.
If you have absolutely no experience with actual opiates, then it would be impossible for you to understand. Opiate type drugs stand in an entire different class. A can of beer is more organically damaging to your body than a $5 or $10 bag of heroin. Trust me, I have 36 years experience here in New York City.
+Dave Nice This is all true at least to my experience also. It was an interesting experience which, after six years, I would finally outgrow.
The only problem is that the substance is illegal and dealers just cares about money so they usually sell you crap, expecially in the last ten years. I decided to shift into pure opium, but at a certain point it became difficult to have a normal life because I couldn't even travel without having a cold turkey and I was always broke. Now I'm on suboxone which I hate, but at least it makes my life easier. I say it again: the only problem is that it's illegal.
I was raised, like most, to just "hate" this substance and to not think further into it. And as a "good boy", i did just that throughout the years... until one day heroin saved my life. It rescued me from an extreme depression that had evolved into suicidal mania. It eased my mind and gave me back calmness and passion for life. Without it i would have gone suffering as a "zombie" or killed myself at some point.
As a bonus, i found out that heroin also compensated for my health shortcomings. You see, i always had a fragile health since i remember (always down with the flu or some other sickness, easily tired, poor apetite, etc). I discovered then that my body simply didn't produce enough endorphins to let me enjoy a normal healthy life, at least not on the level of "normal" people, which didn't seem fair to me since health is no luxury and a life without it is a life without dignity. But heroin not only fixed that, it actually made me feel *super* healthy, at a level i can't describe to you.
This happened about 5 or 6 years ago and since i've been lucky enough to afford it, i made the clear minded decision of just keep using. I could have quit after the depression was over, but why go back to the old lifeless me when i now had a cure? Every now and then i still get the usual "oh poor you. You use heroin? Why don't you seek help to fix that problem?", lol, and i have to explain that i have *no problem* at all, neither do i wanna fix a good thing; i use it the same way other people take other medication and i feel no shame about it because the taboo is all inside the minds of people, induced by pressures of society. After all, what harm am i doing to anyone?
The documentary mentions that the price for heroin in Piccadilly Circus London.
Prior to 1971 the UK had only a few heroin addicts and they were registered and collected their prescriptions from Boots The Chemist in Piccadilly Circus London.
To convert a base to hydrochloride you simply add an acid, you can use lemon juice even or vitamine C (citric acid)
Yep. This is the same why dope in the UK needs to be cooked up with citric acid, they don’t get a post production product (or didn’t, now ironically they still have REAL heroin - where that’s seemingly disappeared from most major cities these days.. thank god I stopped doing heroin 8 years ago. So many friends have died in the last 3..)
I remember, I survived East Harlem 1960s 1970s! Any survivors of Exodus House 1969?
It was a halfway or recovery house, one of the first like Day Top. It was in East Harlem at 103rd street of there abouts.
Good luck with your recovery. There are subjects better not discussed in public. I was reaching out to anyone that might still be alive from the 1960s.
Narrated by Paul Newman, who lost a son to drugs.
That's sad. He died in 1978 due to an accidental overdose of a tranquilizer and alcohol, not heroin.
This isn't Paul Newman's voice.
Rod Sirling
love the whole documentary watching the fashions of the era, look older 60's ?
1972
Yeah that 1956 law sure worked!!!! Its not as if drug use skyrocketed, and incarcerations overstuffed prisons! Way to go goverment
I'm so glad it started then to change. It only makes sense :) Beautiful!
awesome content!!
Hi, I am making a short documentary, and I would like to use two shots from this documentary. Do you know who owns the copyright of this material?
Damn I'll do anything for some shit out of the 70s.. shit just had to be 2000 times better then the crap out here now... I need to build a time machine!!
yea it's just all fent now.. Would be nice to get the real real
You just need to go to Afghanistan
I lived in Hong Kong for a year in 1970 when I was 15. Need I say more? The stuff was incredible.
19:12 omfg he called alcohol a drug in the 1970s
It is. Yeah people love to not include it with other drugs but it is and should be
Richard Willette alcohol IS a drug but of course a legal drug same thing with cigarettes nicotine is a drug ,,same thing with marijuana is a drug but now they’re decriminalizing making it legal
Alcohol probaly destroy more lifes and familys than no other drug
@@kennethjanczak4900 No doubt! Booze destroys more lives than all other drugs combined!!
Pertected effects .good way to put it
50 years ago they understood addiction was a disease that needs treatment and compassion from the community. That's basically 2 full generations, why is there still any sort of stigma about addiction? Like this documentary says, one of the two ways to combat the problem is from the users end through therapy.
Back then it was mostly Afro-decendants and Brown skinned peoples that were addicted. So the euro-decendants that are in control did not care! Drug addiction was a "good" way to keep people of color incarcerated with felony convictions which limits their voting power! Addiction, the ghettos is just another form of "reservations" or forms of "concentration" camps that limits a peoples movement or progress. They just can't murder people like they use to so addiction and poverty is another form of control.
But, today there are more Euro-Americans becoming addicted and now addiction has become a health hazard and an illness that needs to be treated! Today, busssimen are making billions selling legalized pot! But yet the for over 40 years people of color lives have been ruined with felony convictions for small amounts of drugs, millions of people that cannot vote! I believe it has been a conspiracy to maintain control and keep people from progressing.
Government keeps drug addiction as the enemy worth fighting to keep the drug trade alive and profitable for the CIA to continue the herion trade .the truth
addiction is NOT a "disease". 😂 It's not contagious, and it's not genetic - it's an addiction - people addict to anything, television, junk food, exercising, morning caffeine, people, etc.
@@christomorpho Yeah. But, you don't go through painful withdrawals when kicking a television or exercising addiction. So, your point is moot.
Great movie "French Connection" with Gene Hackman as " Popye Doyle" was in it .
Movie came out 70-71.
But, King Cocaine was comming in like a Tsunami , as wll as Disco ( Crack scourge)
Thanks for posting
+Ulyssia You're welcome.
thank you for this video.
Dad was a cop in East Harlem in the 60 and 70’s. Frank Lucas nicky Barnes days
That's so cool!!
Synanon was the organization that "Inherent Vice" was based around. the original "rattlesnake in the mailbox" group wasn't Scientology but this group. The attorney who almost died on his front porch in the late 70s and wrote a book about it talks about the ordeal in an interview with Ed Opperman on "The Ed Opperman Program" here on YT
so Paul Morantz was the attorneys name and William Ramsey interviewed the guy for an episode of ed’s show
i spent 20 minutes trying to figure this out
good find dave
Thanks man!!
I wish you could get a deck as they call it for 5 dollars I might still be using.
Yeah, a deck is simply 1 glassine bag of white dope. They had $4, $5 and normally $10 bags of good white junk, you did not even need to cook it most of the time, it just dissolved in your cooker like coke and the dope smelled like medicine. Directly across the street from my building were the projects and each building's court yard had a crew selling their own stamp. So, it was good and plentiful...to put $5 together was easy and you could do half the bag and be nodding nicely. So, it was hard not to do, dope lasts for hours. Crack only lasts a few minutes and it's one vial after another. With dope, if you knew what you were doing, it was easy to stay ahead of withdrawal. As soon as you had your wake up, you could take your time to put your money together to stay right. It was total bliss and utopia. Mostly the longest time anyone stayed sick was if you got pinched. But, you would get straight if the judge sent you to Rikers Island, after you saw the doctor and you told him you were dope sick, they'd give you a decent dose of methadone and you had two choices, you could slowly detox using the methadone or you could get on the Keep program, that means they would maintain you on methadone and once released, you would simply report to a program on the street or go back to doing junk. So, if you liked junk, NYC was the place to be, especially during the 70's, 80's and mid 90's. Now, the game has changed a little. But, it's still out there.....
@@DaveNiceNYC Yeah I was a snorter don't like needles and saw too many bad results with that. Plus now when you buy it's mostly about weight .5 gram gram etc and getting good shit is hit or miss and hopefully your shit doesn't have fentanyl in it. i live an hour away from Chicago by car so it's plentiful and I could meet the guys half way and never have to go to the hood. This is a cpl years ago I imagine it's still the same.
@@83reggieT I started off snorting way back close to 40 years ago. I'd buy a bag and as I was walking from the spot, I'd crack it open and just inhale the entire bag, within 30 seconds, I felt bliss and utopia. I won't lie, it made me a better person, I felt good, I looked good, I could fuck all night, I looked foreword to going to work, I was eating good, when I worked out...it did not hurt my muscles, it took all my depression away....I had found the key and it was so cheap and easy to get, it was on every block and there was never a panic. I started using a spike, because this chick was using a spike. I met her on the lower East side and bumped into her uptown and she asked me to cop for her, she heard uptown dope was better. While I was copping, she bought two sets of works. I had the key to my elevators in my building. So, I could get into one of the elevators and stop it between floors....perfect place for a little privacy. So, she handed me a set and she hooked her shot up, after she did her shot, I asked her to hook my shot up, after doing it, I felt like I was floating on a cloud of tits, I felt reborn...even more so than snorting. But, in those days the dope was not cut with bullshit. You could even skin pop it and be fine. I could get 4 shots out of one bag. Hence, $10 could hold my everyday habit. Then I discovered speedballs, you could get caps of raw coke starting at $2 (duces) and it was incredible. Sadly, I was doing one speedballs after another. Coke is a suckers drug, weather you smoke, shoot or snort it. But, heroin is a gift from God. When they were detoxing me from Methadone in the late 80's when I was on Rulers Island, I never really kicked, as I was getting other people's doses...then someone snitched, saying I was shaking down other inmates for their methadone and they moved me to a different block where nobody got methadone. I was sick as a dog. I had no choice but ask my wife to bring me junk on every visit. The visiting room had contact visits and she put the bags in a pair of my briefs she would wear under her skirt. As soon as she sat down, I looked around and then grabbed a bag, I quickly opened it and inhaled it and like magic, all the pain went away....I was so grateful I had a wife like that. She was not a user. But, knew where to cop. Back then the jail was lax. So before the visited ended, I grabbed the remaining bags and put them in my briefs I had under the visiting room jumpsuit. So, when they called for our visit to end, we tossed the jumpsuits into a bin, we stood facing the hacks and all we had to do is pull down our drawers and squat and that was it, I still had the dope in my drawers...we put our street clothes on and went to our blocks. I felt great! Plus, I had enough junk to hold me till my next visit. I didn't tell anyone I was scoring. But, they could hear me throwing up from time to time. But, I always denied having anything....even though my pale blue eyes were super pinned and reddish...LOL I'm tough, but not tough enough to take on 50 dope fiends at once...LOL Finally I had to go to the state system to do my time and I started to kick at reception...I couldn't wait to go to a regular prison and cop. Normally it was 5 bags for $100. So $20 a bag was cheap for prison prices. Those same bags cost $30 in northern NY. I finally kicked all together and just bought a couple bags during the weekends. When I was finally released, I copped as soon as I got off the bus back home. My parole officer took one look at my eyes and said I wasted no time...LOL So, he told me to simply get on methadone and I've been on it over 30 years and haven't been in handcuffs since. I only go once a week, I drink it in the evenings, as I'm a night person...I'm about to drink 180mg right now, the real original orange diskettes, have dinner, take a time and relax. So, I don't bother trying to chase bags of today's dope. The methadone is good enough for me. 😃
@@DaveNiceNYC your like william Burroughs
I bet you have some interesting stories
@@jeffjohnston1961 I could write a book that's just as good or even better than the book Junky by William Burroughs. But, his tales stem from a different era. Nevertheless, a habit is a habit. I was a Harlem addict and now in 2024, Harlem has changed. You won't find junk on every block like it was during the 80's and before. I'm too old for that nonsense now. Even though I miss those days, I still reminisce about it. Burroughs played a cameo roll in the movie Drugstore Cowboy with Matt Dillon. Burroughs is a great writer and kind of proves you can die of old age having a habit. He was on Methadone prior to his death from Kansas City, I have photos of his take home bottles from his program in Kansas, I found the photos on the net. He was an interesting person. Watch the TV miniseries Godfather of Harlem with Forrest Whitaker, it shows the way it was back in the days.
I knew that was Paul Newman instantly
You got a sharp ear.
Every time I go on a dope run it ends bad because of lack of money. Fucking expensive $200 a g when it should be like $50. If I could find it for that price I could keep my shit together and wouldn't crash and burn stealing and shit for that next hit.
I guess it depends on where you live, when I was using I could get $5 bags that could get 4 people straight and nodding, white dope...not that tar crap or brown crap. A gram costs about $120 and you could whack it 2 or 3 times and it was still strong, a gram on NYC dope could keep you going and nodding for a week. The reason it is better to get loose bags is it's easier to space out your shots. But, like I said, it depends on where you are from. A pack of cigarettes costs $15 a pack in NYC. Meanwhile, a bag of junk is still the same price after 40 years. Go figure. If you are struggling that bad, you should just get on a methadone program and your sick days will vanish all together. Good luck!!
Yesterday afternoon I was walking up 3rd ave between 86th and 87th street when I saw a kid who looked about 19 prepping his needle. He was skinny with long matted hair and he had somewhat of a skater look. And there he was just walking down the street heroin in one hand, needle in the other. I’m sure this is a common sight for some of you but it was my first time seeing something like that.
Ha, I too have prepped my needle between 86st & 87st on Third 35+ years ago. The difference is, I was actually using Heroin. What that kid had was not heroin, it was chemicals. Those people are called Hope Fiends...its a sad state of affairs in this era.
Happens all the time where I am
@@deniselyman5147 Just wondering, where are you?
Come 2 Philly I see it every day sn worse
ABSOLUTELY ZERO PROGRESS MADE!!!
A lot of rehab tho... But they make money on us addicts
Took a step back really. As a user id prefer this og dope over the China fent that dominates now. $5 a bag not bag either.
it changes from the stupid tv sensationalists shows that we can watch norwadays. (sorry for the english mistakes)... by the way I'm from Marseille in France, and heroin destroyed so many lives here. 70's was a gangster's paradise in France.
Same with some parts of New York and Los Angeles. Sorry so many of your country's people have lost their lives.
@@ms.sanchez3924 me too. Heroin is one of the worsts.
@@samsam2004 I'd say Crack destroys people much faster than a regular dope habit. That's just my personal experience here in NYC.
As the video somewhat stated, no person should be in trouble for simply possessing drugs ever ever ever... Tell your senators and representatives this because they are simply people hurting trying to cope with life and not trying to destroy anyone else’s...
Should have interviewed Shaft for this.
Why?
Watch Yo Mouth
I could never get addicted, ya the feeling is pure bliss but I puke 🤮 bad every time. It’s like hit, rush, calm , euphoria and relaxation, then violent puking always. I don’t know my body has always been weird. I just stay away from everything now.
seriously great upload
Until society cares about people who use heroine people will use heroine to escape from society.... I recently read that and it makes sense. I'm not defending its use. Far from it. But something new needs to happen. Most people's lives are full of love and caring and most people don't use heroine. Just a thought.
Ein gutes Lernvideo. Scheiß Schore, scheiß Bedingungen!
Ja, es ist sehr lehrreich. Ich wünschte, ich könnte dreißig Jahre zurückgehen und es noch einmal leben. Spaß mal.
Those old school rigs are so cool looking.
Yeah, actually they suck. Here in NYC we call them ba-pers (from the word 'eyedropper'). It's an eye dropper attached to a spike...you normally have to take a small piece of paper...normally a corner from a dollar bill and place the paper around the tip of the dropper and attach the spike, this way it's a snug fit and your spike wont come off. But, many times it slips off while doing your shot. Its old school, you are better off using a regular diabetic syringe with the orange cap or even better, a blue tip hypo. Those ba-pers are not reliable in my opinion. Plus, you can get air bubbles in your vein.
The old style, reusable, glass, stainless steel and chrome etc hypodermics that are carried in cases look quite classy, high quality and well engineered pieces of surgical equipment.
But they are also very heavy and if you start to gouch or nod out with the needle still in place, if you are not careful the whole thing can slip from your hand and damage your arms etc before it falls out.
They are much heavier and stronger than the disposable plastic hypodermics normally used and I think that they could be used as a small weapon for self protection.
They are probably in demand as collectors items.
@@simonyip5978 How would you keep the needle surgically sharp? I'd stuck with the diabetic or blue tip works...
@@simonyip5978 Too much Pulp Fiction, no?
in philly they call em 'works'
KING HEROIN!!!
Indeed!
Funky 4 plus one, or JB?
Cool !!
Good ole SMACK!
Fear! Hysteria! Get a grip.
You are no more a criminal than a cigarette taker.
Whats the name of the original film? Anyone know?
What film are you referring to?
The original film. Is called Flowers of Darkness produced in 1972
Only asked bc I'm doing a project on it
+S. Jones That's exactly what I put as the title, I simply added to it is all..... The original title is in the beginning of the film.
The clues in the title.
I've read your comments, Dave! You're an amazing persona!
Thank you! I'm one of a kind.
What an amazing photo! tinyurl.com/laaru2b
Thanks. Yeah, that was a young me. Approx 35 years ago.
Thank you. I've seen it all and done it all to the fullest. You can get a better insight by viewing my FB page, I've got nothing hidden. facebook.com/DAVENICENYC
❤
Ahh, now I see. You found my FB page. :)
@@DaveNiceNYC yes I did 😀 I like this documentary!
Paul Neuman? sounds like Rod Sterling.
im feining for a bag of dope rn. wish i lived in the 60s and 70s when it was rampnt
It was actually more rampant in the 80's and it made a huge comeback from 90' to 95' here in NYC.
Yoooo me too I'm need some 70s shit lmaooo!!!!
@Dill Rogerz Actually, it's not. It only seems that way because now white suburbia is being affected by the opiates. If you go to Harlem now and walk from 110st to 150st, you'll find it next to impossible to cop a bag, as it's next to extinct here in what was once the Heroin Capital. Now, you'd never know Heroin saturated every single block, river to river. But, because it's now in white suburbia, it's considered rampant. Use common sense my brother. 1 💘
I hope you got some help. Get you into a sub program if not i lost quite a few ppl to dope.
(Its super rampant where i live, one of the worst citys for it, its on every single block except half is fentanyl. )
@@toxikspeaks3523 Help? I haven't used
illicit drugs in over 25 years. smh
Man i wonder where these people are right now
I'm from that era, doing what is depicted in this video and I'm alive and well. I have a good wife and family. The drug heroin doesn't cause damage to your body, it's the lack of taking care of your body that kills you. I'm in touch with most of my friends I grew up with in NYC and I'd say 90% are alive and well. Be cool!
@Dill Rogerz Actually, I converted to Methadone about 25 years ago. When I became older, I got tired of the chase, even though it was pretty easy to maintain here in NYC. I just got tired is all. I've kicked junk many times. But, Methadone is a better fit for me personally. I go to my private program and I'm given 7 doses of 180mg, so I drink a bottle of 180mg a day. I drink it in the evenings, as I'm a night person. So, with the Meth, my eyes stay pinned, I take prescribed Benzos and with a toke or two of weed, I'm good. I know Methadone is more addictive and more damaging than junk. But, the pros outweigh the cons...for me.
Requiem for a Dream
This documentary seems like it came from the 60's
70s
Read about the Opium war... fascinating
This doesn't look 70s, more like 1967ish!
Flowers of Darkness (1972) It's indeed the 70's! Simply google "what year did the documentary 'Flowers of Darkness' come out?"
@@DaveNiceNYC Wow..no kidding, the fashions, car models, etc., look so much earlier..or so I thought. I also watched a 1964 doco set in New York about the same thing too. (Check it out!) Not much has changed between the two docos...and now, maybe?
@@mebeasensei That's only an 8 year difference. How many really noticeable changes have occurred between 2011 to 2019? Me, I don't really see any major changes. You know what I mean? But, I know what you mean too...there was more radical changes from the 60's to the 70's. My DeVille is 18 years old and it's in good condition and when parked next to other cars it really doesn't look like an old fashioned car, it's still pretty streamlined. You know what I mean? Of course you do.
U serious same shyt
@@DaveNiceNYC
I think it's just very random footage of people who
really didn't look modern.
All of them from officials to users really looked like from late 1960s, than from 1972.
But it's hard to expect drug user or even government official being fashionable.
Harlem USA
Actually , cocaine was comming in like a tsunami with it disco too.
All these people in this are either old or dead.
What a lame comment! Old or dead? Of course, this was like 50 years ago!
I don’t like Heroin because it makes my stomach hurt.
Then, you must be getting beat. Where are you copping your junk?
Dave Nice lol I was just jokin
@@MichaelAlanis Oh, LOL
I KNOW BETTER than that!!! I’m a 70s baby……
I have thought crack had destroyed Harlem..I knew that was a lie
I'm not sure I understand your post. I remember when those Jumbos first hit Harlem during the summer of 85'. I was going to cop a bag of Dust on 111st between 7th and St. Nicholas and they were handing out vials to the folks that spent money.
I was already hip to Freebasing. But, this was different, now the rocks were already cooked up and ready to smoke. I crunched up the rocks from the free vial and put it with weed, it's called a Woola. After the first drag, my head was ringing.
I went back 10 minutes later to cop a $10 vial, then the prices started to drop to $8 and then to $5 and then they had the Deuces and the Tre's ($2 & $3 vials). By then, everyone was using a stem to smoke it and I watched Harlem go from rough, to bad then to the worst.
By the time 89' came around, it had brought Harlem down to its knees. But, not just Harlem, it was everywhere and I mean everywhere!
I'm glad them days are over. It was nuts!! A Crack habit makes Heroin look like Bubblegum. A bag of dope lasts for hours, a hit of Crack only lasts minutes and you get so thirsty for it. Crack is a suckers drug!
@@DaveNiceNYC Im 44 be 45 in October.my research that heroin.did a lot of damage to Harlem to
Back in the late 60s and 70s. Way before the crack ecodimic.I see footage of nikki barnes and frank lucas days from there dealers on 116 and 7th avenue and other spots of Harlem.I see footage of little kids, pregnant woman's was hooked on heroin.people arms was big from shooting up. Pee wee Kirkland .freddie myers and others was the blue print.of destroying Harlem and other boroughs way before the crack ecodimic.
Donald J Trump at 13 minutes
Pyrex vision
Gotta love how specially made to be racist and guilt free, these were; so Americans importing a bunch of drugs isn't as bad as some poor farmer who gains miserably, for the starting product or that kid who had 1ounce inside that ice cream... probably saving it for some known, rich murican singer.
Mexican BLACK TAR !
Sucks,right? You can't compare pure China White or Colombian White to Black Tar (yuck). With white powder heroin, you can snort it and feel bliss. Can you snort Tar? LOL
Dave I understand where you're coming from but then again I don't. So, you're basically saying it's ok to be a functioning addict. I know you're an adult you should do you but to come on a public forum like this and advocate illicit drug use is crazy. You're no better than a homeless junkie asking for dollars. But I sense this superiority complex you have going on which creeps me out even more. You've apparently been on dope for decades and have had NO problems related to your drug use? It's been all rainbows and sunshine? Refuse to believe that man. Come on, you were shooting up in abandoned houses with a street junkie if that's not the lowest of the low I don't know what is. I would just hope that no impressionable young people read your comments and get the wrong idea. Because you have it all so wrong.
Please don't let my experiences and my fact finding creep you out. "A homeless junkie asking for dollars and shooting up in abandoned houses." Actually you have it all wrong and it's not your fault, due to the fact you're clearly not from a major urban city for starters (not that it really matters, using is using). There's no "houses" in Manhattan.
In any event, if you've never felt pure relief or utopia from real opiates, then it would be impossible for you to truly understand how opiates can be to a person's benefit. Heroin actually saved my life and opiates make life less stressful for me (I'm speaking for myself). I wouldn't want anyone getting a simple junk habit just for the hell of it.
However, if a person is suffering from severe mental anguish (or other painful ailments)--and can't face the world for whatever reason and if by a fluke they snort a nickel of junk and all those years of suffering came to an instant halt-- because of self medicating, and the subject is now able to take on the world--that means, the pros outweigh the cons. If the subject knows what is entailed regarding the use of the drug and simply stays ahead of being in withdrawal and lives a happier and more successful life, I'd call that a success story. You'll find heroin success stories all over the net, even on this page.
Unfortunately, some people don't know what their getting themselves into and abuse opiates for cheap thrills, then that's a problem and I'd never condone that type of use. Yes, I indeed get it, I actually don't have it wrong. Peace and Love!
PS, opiates have been used for 1000's of years. Before the political Harrison Narcotics Act, the Bayer company (among other companies) produced tins of heroin that was sold over the counter as a cure all--like if you had a cold, a snort or two took the symptoms away. Woolworth even sold it.
Right on! But, were are comparing apples to oranges. Here's a face to put with my words, I'm happy, in love and successful. Take care now.
Here's my FB page. :)
facebook.com/DAVENICENYC
BTW, I haven't used an illicit drug in over 25 years. You have scant info about me. I'm simply sharing my personal experiences and what I've seen growing up in New York City. It seems you're from Europe (if I'm wrong, forgive me--Americans don't use the term "quid"). Sorry you're so creeped out. You seem smart. But, very young. So, there's not much you can tell me. I've seen it all and done it all to the fullest. As for my teeth--I admit, I have 3 fillings that I got before I was 17. You have to stop assuming things about me. But, I'm flattered you've taken such an interest. Cheers!
Dave Nice well, I'm sorry if I came off so strong but I have seen people that I love dearly have their lives completely destroyed by drugs. You are truly an exception. You're ideas and attitudes toward the recreational use of illicit hard drugs just threw me off that's all.
I've had many family and friends screw up their lives with other drugs like cocaine, pills and booze. I'd say booze is the biggest killer combined....I'm actually not an exception, many of my colleagues have the same experiences as me. Cheers Mate!
Build the wall
.......then what?
Around you.
So run away from the problem and ignore it?
I want pure. Not this cut bullshit.
Bring back old school heroin. Give people what they want.