Bubblehammerblog

I have some minor experience of the drugs market. I'll admit that I once foolishly got myself addicted to smoking heroin. But it was only for perhaps 25 - 30 years. I'd had enough by then.

So I obviously still know lots of people in the business, & they're all telling me that there's a chronic shortage of heroin. The only gear available is very weak, & for the most part bashed to death with paracetamol. This has been so for the past 2 or 3 months. It seems the shortage isn't confined to this area.

Lack of junk is an excellent motivator. If it could inspire Coleridge to walk all the way from Somerset to London to get opium, think how far present day junkies might range. This is a national phenomena. I doubt a drought as profound as this has happened in to the last 2 decades. It's even been covered in the national dailies.

My intuition, along with my reading in the papers & online about the bumper harvests in Afghanistan, with the British Army guarding the fields for the farmers while they bring in the crop, tells me that this is a case of a failure of distribution rather than supply. Heroin is money, stockpiles are kept by wholesalers in order to influence prices. It looks as though the one or two kilo level distributors are being denied supplies. This is unlikely to be the result of specific police activities. The function of the police is to apply sufficient pressure to keep the price buoyant. It's unheard of for the police to disrupt supply for more than a few days.

Although the average user rarely rubs shoulders with mid-level distributors, or middle management, rumours do trickle down as far as the neighbourhood dealers. The one I've heard the most is that some major players, from a country I won't name, believe that their organisation has been infiltrated by traitors & informers, & until these have been rooted out supplies are being witheld. This plot seems plausible.

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