Believe it?
I KNOW it.
I’ve seen it first hand time and time again.
Dealers usually have other stuff besides weed.
They’ve up uppers, downers, designer drugs.
There is a reason new drug fads among partiers always pop up.
It’s what happens to be going around at the time.
So it’s what the dealers are pushing and what the users are therefore using.
They have personal relationships with their customers.
They say “hey man, I got this blue wizard acid, you wanna try a hit of it?”
And these guys have their guys they get it from, who have their guys.
And if the guys at the top of the chain stop running pot because you can buy a pack of joints at Walgreens for $6.50, then they’re going to find something else. And they tell their guys “weed’s gone dry, but I got this PCP instead.” And if that’s what they got to sell, then that’s what they sell.
Each guy tells his buyer the same thing, down the line. Sure, a lot of business will drop off the bottom, and the dealers who deal to their friends just to support their habit and smoke all their profits anyways will get out of the business, but then again, they’ll just be buying it cheap and legal too, so they have no reason to sell. Maybe they’ll get jobs behind the counters of gas stations and convenient stores...
But the guys above them, the professional runners, and suppliers, they will move into other drugs out of necessity. Chances are they already deal in them, but they will start deal I’m them in much larger quantities to make up for their pot losses, and we’ll see more hard drugs brought in, more violence on the border, and a resurgence of the cocaine gang turf wars of the ‘80s.