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|u/Mettelor - 11 hours
|
|What is the unit here? $0.25 for a single spec, a gram, an ounce, a
|pound, a ton? You have given us the numerator - but prices don't make
|sense unless you give us the denominator!
|u/BladesHaxorus - 11 hours
|
|In south asian countries, amphetamines are sold as small red disk-
|shaped pills called ya ba. They're traditionally smoked on top of a
|strip of tin foil inhaled through a straw or rolled up bank note.
|u/Mettelor - 11 hours
|
|That is interesting to hear, I didn’t realize it would be a standard
|dose like a pill, I envisioned more like small baggies
|u/BladesHaxorus - 11 hours
|
|It's street drugs so even the pills aren't standardized. I've
|been clean of amphetamines for like a decade but back in the day
|if I got it from the shitty local dealers most of the pill would
|have almost nothing. It would just be fillers and would vaporize
|in seconds. The good quality stuff would be like 4 or 5 hits per
|pill and would be in your system for a few hours or so. They're
|pressed the same way street xans are pressed in the US.
|u/InclinationCompass - 8 hours
|
|It’s similar to molly or ecstasy pills. You pay for the number
|of units. But good dealers should know how much they weigh in mg
|and how pure it is.
|u/xteve - 4 hours
|
|I presume that good dealers don't sell metabolic drugs of no
|therapeutic or social value.
|u/DogshitLuckImmortal - 4 hours
|
|Thats why they sell meth.
|u/Free-Atmosphere6714 - 1 hour
|
|You didn't know that meth is basically Adderall?
|u/Bobby6kennedy - 11 hours
|
|Wait- you can smoke adderall?
|u/Beautiful_Welcome_33 - 10 hours
|
|You most definitely cannot, but *ya ba* isn't Adderall - it's
|methamphetamine
|u/evilpotion - 10 hours
|
|Actually you can smoke Adderall lol, it's just bad for you
|(and gets you insanely fucked up)
|u/conquer69 - 7 hours
|
|Why not take the adderall orally?
|u/beany2217 - 7 hours
|
|The strength and hang-time are vastly different. It’s
|like snorting it bad taking it orally. Frankly, that’s
|most drugs for ya.
|u/DregsRoyale - 5 hours
|
|Your body wants to keep everything stable. Drugs only
|work because they hijack an existing system. For
|example nicotine fits into receptors for nicotinic
|acetylcholine. When you smoke you push the systems
|which use nicotinic acetylcholine (to communicate) out
|of balance. This makes you feel things. So when
|you take drugs your body go to work trying to
|counteract the effects. The faster and harder you
|push your system out of balance, the more you feel
|things. And depending on the buttons you're pushing,
|it might unbalance your system so much that it crashes
|(and you die). This is why people inject/smoke/boof
|drugs: it gets into your system faster. The
|digestive tract also has mechanisms in place to slow
|absorption, to quickly filter things once they're
|absorbed, etc. So skipping it bypasses some of those
|controls, and unbalances your system faster/more.
|u/iate12muffins - 7 hours
|
|Why not anally？
|u/Kayakingtheredriver - 5 hours
|
|Because freebasing sends it straight to your brain
|without you liver getting involved. So it hits faster,
|harder, and has been processed by your liver 1 less
|time, which keeps you higher, longer. Same with
|shooting up, which is even more efficient because less
|evaporates since you just bring it to melting
|temperatures instead of ignition temperatures like
|smoking requires.
|u/smitteh - 5 hours
|
|not a good reason to end a friendship...humans do drugs
|and different strokes for different folks
|u/Searedskillet - 5 hours
|
|Unless you know, you don't want to be considered of in
|possession of more serious drugs than weed. It's
|obvious why someone would cut off that friendship.
|Only those that don't give a shit about other people
|can't wrap their brains around why it's a good reason
|to end a friendship.
|u/siddizie420 - 10 hours
|
|I mean by that logic you can smoke anything. Some things
|only once though 😆
|u/Zealousideal-Army670 - 8 hours
|
|No you can't, some drugs decompose AKA burn before
|vaporizing.
|u/Butt_Breake - 10 hours
|
|No, it’s not some kind of logic. Certain compounds are
|smokable and others just aren’t
|u/Thundermedic - 5 hours
|
|I think their point was you “inhale” anything…once at
|least.
|u/angrytreestump - 6 hours
|
|The implied phrasing in both the question and answer
|were “you can smoke adderall *[and get high]*(?).” Many
|drugs do not survive the burning process; more survive
|vaporization though. Many others need to be digested the
|drug with the desired effects (“pro-drugs”).
|u/HotUsualDaddy - 5 hours
|
|I mean by that logic, you can milk anything with tits
|u/goiterburg - 4 hours
|
|I have tits, Greg. Can you milk me?
|u/1337papaz - 4 hours
|
|Even almond tits.
|u/SoMuchMoreEagle - 1 hour
|
|I have tits Greg. Can you smoke me?
|u/MiamiPower - 4 hours
|
|Smoked Brisket not 🚫🚭 even once campaigns
|u/goiterburg - 4 hours
|
|There's a guy that smokes cow shit. One time teenagers
|tried to bathe him as a prank. He's basically a human
|dreadlock
|u/kinky-proton - 9 hours
|
|Seem people smoke a cockroach, and finish the joint even
|u/m3g4m4nnn - 6 hours
|
|Smoke the joint, *then* the roach.
|u/rennaris - 5 hours
|
|You can technically smoke any drug, but some drugs (like
|amphetamine) are mostly destroyed by the heat. It can work
|but it's *incredibly* inefficient
|u/jopnk - 10 hours
|
|If it’s not the extended release yeah I’m sure you can. It’s
|probably a shitty high compared to just popping or railing it
|tho. Edit: you can also boof it. I’m sure not including that
|is why this got downvoted
|u/Brapplezz - 4 hours
|
|deserves the upvote really
|u/Redman5012 - 50 minutes
|
|Extended release can be crushed and then snorted or smoked.
|It'll be stronger because it's designed to slowly release so
|when crushed it's absorbed faster.
|u/Zealousideal-Army670 - 8 hours
|
|You're vaporizing the amphetamine, but yes!
|u/PurpEL - 5 hours
|
|You can smoke anything you want chief
|u/chr1spe - 3 hours
|
|Sure, but a large number of things will have no psychoactive
|effect because the drug is broken down in the process.
|Whether you can smoke something and get the effect or not
|depends on many factors, and as far as I know, the salts of
|amphetamines used in Adderal will mostly or entirely be
|broken down and inactive if you try to smoke it. That is
|also why people smoke crack but not coke. There are actually
|types of meth that cannot be smoked effectively. That is why
|it was commonly called "crystal meth." It's a specific salt
|that tends to form larger crystals, AFAIK. If you've ever
|heard of freebasing, that is another technique to smoke
|drugs where the drug is no longer in a salt, which makes
|some things work better for smoking.
|u/Lazy_meatPop - 7 hours
|
|This person meths 👆
|u/allnaturalflavor - 3 hours
|
|why didn't you read the article?
|u/Lupius - 10 hours
|
|>Ya ba (Thai: ยาบ้า, Lao: ຢາບ້າ, literally 'crazy medicine') is a
|drug containing a mixture of methamphetamine and caffeine. >Ya
|ba tablets typically are consumed orally and are sometimes flavored
|like confectionery.[2] Another method of consumption is chasing the
|dragon, wherein the ya ba tablet is placed on aluminium foil and
|heated from below, which produces vapors that are then
|inhaled.[2] The drug also may be administered by crushing the
|tablets into powder, which is then snorted or mixed with a solvent
|and injected.[2] Pulled relevant text from Wikipedia. First, this
|is a mix of meth and caffeine and there's no good source on the meth
|content, so OP's claim about "cheapest meth" is already in dispute.
|Second, why make them into pill form if they're meant to be smoked?
|u/BladesHaxorus - 10 hours
|
|\>why make them into pill form if they're meant to be smoked?
|Easier to sell I assume. I've always bought them disguised as hard
|candy in plastic wrappers. \>there's no good source on the meth
|content It's street drugs in third world countries. If I'm a meth
|addict, I'm not wasting meth testing it with reagents. Idk why
|wiki says it's usually consumed orally. I'm a south asian
|(recovered) meth addict and everyone I've ever met just chases the
|dragon. Maybe it's a regional thing
|u/angrytreestump - 6 hours
|
|Do people (or did you) ever snort it? Is snorting not big
|culturally in South Asia? I’m kinda surprised that freebasing
|a pill is the preferred method, for both the reason OP asked and
|also because freebasing/vaping requires a lighter and foil and
|is conspicuous (not that snorting is the easiest thing to do if
|it’s pill form either, but it’s a bit less conspicuous and can
|be done in your hand in a bathroom or whatever). …It’s
|fascinating to me the ways different cultures have all worked
|out how to get high off the same handful of chemicals!
|u/AuspiciousApple - 10 hours
|
|Why is that? Stronger effect? Faster? Orally seems more
|convenient.
|u/BladesHaxorus - 9 hours
|
|Hits harder and faster. There's also strange rumors about
|orally like it being less efficient, the guy selling the
|product cutting it with poison etc. There's also this thing
|a lot of people do where they keep a bottle cap inside their
|mouths to collect the powdery residue that would normally be
|left over on your gums and they add that to a joint or just
|smoke it again. I've taken it orally from time to time. It's
|late at night and you don't have any tin or your lighter ran
|out of fluid or whatever.
|u/pandariotinprague - 4 hours
|
|> strange rumors about orally like it being less efficient
|That's true of a lot of drugs. Usually IV is the most
|efficient, oral is the least, and smoking and snorting are
|in the middle. Even in a medical setting, an oral morphine
|dose needs to be 3x an IV dose for the same effect.
|u/AverageWarm6662 - 7 hours
|
|I believe you can also drink your piss after amphetamines if
|you want to efficiencymax as you don’t process it all
|efficiently on the first go
|u/sadrice - 3 hours
|
|So, I heard a crazy story from an ex roommate, he was
|stoned as shit and drunk and was a habitual liar, so I am
|no sure if I believe any part of this. He’s gay, and was
|talking about wild sex parties he’s been to in San
|Francisco, and “tinabumping”, which is getting a hit of
|meth as a guy who’s ultra high comes in you without a
|condom. I was never sure whether to believe his stories.
|I’m pretty sure half of them are true, but I’m never sure
|which half.
|u/TrivalentEssen - 9 hours
|
|Lungs to blood stream vs mouth to stomach intestines
|digestion.
|u/ProfessionalGear3020 - 7 hours
|
|Presumably, if you standardize the prices and dosages, it becomes
|much easier to do bookkeeping as a drug dealer. You buy 10,000
|pills off the boat. You give 1000 each to your street level
|dealers. Each pill is 25 cents, and if you take 20%, you know
|you're owed $50 from each drug dealer. If your dealers are
|deciding the prices on the fly, you're more likely to be lied to.
|And it's not like you can keep records. You could probably sell
|them in little baggies as well, but Walmart tells me a tiny Ziploc
|bag is 5-8 cents. That's a sizable cost if users are buying
|individual doses worth 25 cents.
|u/myownzen - 9 hours
|
|Can't exactly sell them in smoke form. It's not a leaf like
|tobacco either.
|u/Im_eating_that - 7 hours
|
|One large baggie full of meth smoke please
|u/Tallywacka - 2 hours
|
|I believe theres also a method involving gum and it’s just chewed
|That’s at least what a thai guy was telling me
|u/justwantedtoview - 2 hours
|
|>why make them into pill form if they're meant to be smoked?
|"Why make them into a form thats easy to make into the two forms
|that every other meth user commonly uses?" My brother in
|christ people snort and smoke meth. If its in a pill. And people
|crush it to smoke it. And crush it to snort it. Then it being a
|pill was never the point in the first place. It is. CLEARLY.
|Pointless why ask the question.
|u/matchosan - 7 hours
|
|about the size of a BENADRYL® tablet
|u/10YearsANoob - 10 hours
|
|South east asian. South asian is the indian subcontinent. I dont
|think they have ya ba there. Opiates tho...
|u/BladesHaxorus - 10 hours
|
|They have them in both. Ik what I said. I'm not southeast asian
|but I am south asian. I've never gotten opiates from my dealers
|though.
|u/nickmaran - 6 hours
|
|Ya bama
|u/VitaminxDee - 3 hours
|
|Isn't ya ba the left over stuff after they make the drugs?
|u/Brapp_Z - 3 hours
|
|In Taiwan, ket is smoked inside cigarettes more often than any other
|ROA. Least effective, most popular. Go figure
|u/MajesticBread9147 - 8 hours
|
|They should know that they shouldn't be doing that. Putting a flame
|to aluminum foil is bad for your health because aluminum foil is
|treated with a thin layer of plastic.
|u/ElCamo267 - 7 hours
|
|They're about to smoke pills some dude made in a garage and chase
|the dragon for 10 hours. The microfilm of plastic flumes is
|negligible to their health.
|u/Thatdudeovertheir - 7 hours
|
|Wouldn't want any plastic with your street meth.
|u/Overall-Duck-741 - 4 hours
|
|Good thing people don't use them for cooking or anything.
|u/SenorAssCrackBandito - 9 hours
|
|*south East Asian
|u/BladesHaxorus - 9 hours
|
|No. I'm south asian. South East asia is like vietnam, laos etc.
|South Asia is india, bangladesh, bhutan, nepal etc. There's yaba
|in both regions but since I'm not southeast asian I only spoke
|from my perspective.
|u/SenorAssCrackBandito - 9 hours
|
|It’s not called ya ba in South Asia, only in South East Asia
|u/BladesHaxorus - 9 hours
|
|Bro are you really explaining to me what they call meth in my
|own country?
|u/AbruptAbsurdity - 7 hours
|
|Lmao, this interaction was the most Reddit thing I’ve seen
|in a while. You’re literally speaking from first hand
|experience and being told you’re wrong. wtf Glad you’re
|recovered though bro.
|u/GoatBass - 7 hours
|
|Just another day on Reddit.
|u/SenorAssCrackBandito - 9 hours
|
|This may shock you but other people can be south Asian as
|well
|u/BladesHaxorus - 9 hours
|
|Even if you are (which, ngl, doubt. You seem american born
|and raised), your statement \>t’s not called ya ba in
|South Asia, only in South East Asia Isn't right because
|at the very least one country in south asia, mine, calls
|it yaba.
|u/FettuccinePasta - 8 hours
|
|I’m sorry you have to deal with this guy.
|u/cherryreddracula - 5 hours
|
|As a South Asian living in the US, I apologize on behalf
|of this ignorant American.
|u/brotatowolf - 6 hours
|
|Yeah, great, you still haven’t given us the dose, dumbass
|u/bonerfleximus - 11 hours
|
|Yes I would like 14 meths please. How much will that be?
|u/MojaMonkey - 11 hours
|
|In Laos that would be $3.50
|u/PrescriptionDenim - 11 hours
|
|Goddamn you Loch Meth Monstah!!
|u/iamapizza - 4 hours
|
|/r/theydidthemeth
|u/paul-arized - 4 hours
|
|["He stole my line."](https://media1.tenor.com/images/db3548f9
|4c657f17ea4c0647273083b8/tenor.gif?itemid=5495312)
|u/TrackXII - 3 hours
|
|Also, this particular phrase is literally Monster Meth.
|u/Brapp_Z - 2 hours
|
|Lol! No wonder he kept pestering them for tree fiddy
|u/richard_fredrick - 6 hours
|
|Digital footprint
|u/Captain-Cadabra - 10 hours
|
|“4 meths for a dollar” we used to say, as was the style of the time.
|u/Bjorn2bwilde24 - 7 hours
|
|But what's the ratio of meths to bananas?
|u/fyreaenys - 1 hour
|
|Well, let's see. According to the Lucille Bluth scale of, *"It's a
|banana, Michael; how much could it cost, 10 dollars?"* one banana
|is equal to 40 meths.
|u/whalesalad - 4 hours
|
|I do remember how we used to say that
|u/Fit-Control-6014 - 4 hours
|
|Love the Simpsons
|u/Flares117 - 11 hours
|
|Drug users tell me one piece of yaba is 5,000 to 7,000 kip [$0.24 to
|$0.34] now,” said Bounme, who interviews new patients entering the
|clinic. “If you buy a pack of 200, you can get it as cheap as 2,500
|[$0.12] per pill.” Meth tablets apparently and low meth prices. I
|don't know how much meth is in a meth tablet. Any meth experts here
|can do the meth I mean math
|u/BladesHaxorus - 11 hours
|
|Depends on quality. Obviously with every street drug sometimes you
|get good product, sometimes you get garbage. If it's good quality
|1-2 will get you in a good spot for a few hours. As is customary
|with amphetamines though, the most common dosage is however much I
|can afford.
|u/AuspiciousApple - 10 hours
|
|How much are these prices relative to what people earn locally?
|~$25 for 200 pills sounds crazy cheap.
|u/BladesHaxorus - 10 hours
|
|The monthly wage for my uni graduate friends at their white
|collar jobs is the equivalent of 200-300 dollars a month.
|u/TheDumper44 - 8 hours
|
|You can get a thousand pills of ibuprofen from Costco for like
|10$. And I have 0 idea but just guessing that is harder to make
|and has more qc then the average meth pill in Laos
|u/epic1107 - 6 hours
|
|What’s your point?
|u/Exciting-Ad-5705 - 4 hours
|
|That drugs are obviously going to be cheap when the
|government isn't clamping down on it
|u/satellite779 - 10 hours
|
|>good spot Good is relative.
|u/Mettelor - 11 hours
|
|Per pill is great - thank you
|u/Plane-Tie6392 - 11 hours
|
|How is that great? Pills can be different sizes and purities.
|u/idkwhatimbrewin - 10 hours
|
|Perfect size to take rectally - thank you
|u/Plane-Tie6392 - 10 hours
|
|Gotcha. So the guy in the article took 62.60 pounds of meth
|pills. That seems legit.
|u/d4vezac - 10 hours
|
|TIL meth is the densest substance known to man
|u/drewster23 - 10 hours
|
|Because you're not getting meth for cents/dose in the west lol.
|While you're not wrong, I doubt you'll find a large variance in
|size/purity there. It's that cheap solely because of the
|abundant supply. And yno also not being trafficked across the
|world.
|u/Reagalan - 6 hours
|
|Uhh....I'ma guess around 20mg per meth tablet. Meth has 150% the
|potency of Adderall, so that's equivalent to an orange-and-a-half.
|Any more than that and you'll fuck up someone with no tolerance.
|... It seems intuitive that street drug dosages would converge to
|similar amounts as prescription drug dosages. Maximizes the
|therapeutic ratio.
|u/guynamedjames - 10 hours
|
|Shits cheaper than Adderall even with insurance
|u/account128927192818 - 11 hours
|
|One crack please
|u/KickinAssHaulinGrass - 11 hours
|
|Between 5-30mg and the rest fillers, I bet. That's what the meth I
|bring home from the pharmacy is.
|u/BarnardWellesley - 4 hours
|
|Trump will cure you
|u/DeeBoFour20 - 10 hours
|
|25 cents for 1 meth of course.
|u/jonpolis - 10 hours
|
|Ah yes, one meth please
|u/ajtrns - 7 hours
|
|they were very clear about this. ONE METH.
|u/trophycloset33 - 6 hours
|
|1 meth please
|u/Sloth-monger - 5 hours
|
|A beer in Laos according to Google ai cost 0.60 USD for a pint. So
|maybe 0.25 per pint of meth.
|u/GratefulForGarcia - 9 hours
|
|Easy, it’s just the price of 1 meth
|u/grundee - 7 hours
|
|$0.25 all you can meth
|u/Valentinee105 - 7 hours
|
|Ya, I was going to say, 0.25c without the unit of measurement is
|worthless.
|u/thebestguy96 - 6 hours
|
|A crumb of drug I believe
|u/Natryn - 8 hours
|
|It's for 1
|u/wastingtoomuchthyme - 7 hours
|
|The article says per pill..
|u/rb5snoopy - 5 hours
|
|“Units!”
|u/DaBrokenMeta - 4 hours
|
|ADD THIS GUY TO THE LIST!! He has made himself known!
|u/OK_BUT_WASH_IT_FIRST - 3 hours
|
|It’s $.25 for one meth, obviously.
|u/WhisperingWillow_Bre - 2 hours
|
|Denominator detective!
|u/Pleasant_Scar9811 - 1 hour
|
|One crack please.
|u/ImJLu - 1 hour
|
|12 oz can for both
|u/anon-mally - 19 minutes
|
|Someone is trying to do some meth here! Hurry Give this man the
|denominator!
|u/ProperPerspective571 - 11 hours
|
|All the meth users struggling to get enough money for a passport and
|plane ticket
|u/crexkitman - 7 hours
|
|When the goal is more meth, tweakers will be able to accomplish
|whatever task it takes to get there. I know this cause I use tweakers
|as labor to build my palace.
|u/PM_ME_SMALL__TIDDIES - 4 hours
|
|>I know this cause I use tweakers as labor to build my palace. This
|but unironically. When i wanted anything done in my backyard i use
|to contact the local crackhead. He didnt steal from anyone and didnt
|get beat up, i got my shit done for a fair price, win win. Of
|course i kept supervision so he wouldnt steal my shit, i am not a
|fool.
|u/crexkitman - 4 hours
|
|Oh same. Obviously I’m not having a palace built, but when I used
|to live closer to the hood and I’d have some kind of plumbing,
|minor construction, general maintenance, mechanical issues I’d
|hire a crackhead and pay em $10 plus a $20 bag of crack. Never had
|any problems and they did decent enough work that easily saved me
|a few hundred.
|u/PM_ME_SMALL__TIDDIES - 3 hours
|
|>$20 bag of crack YO WTF NOW YOU LOST ME. The 10-20$ price
|range is the same here but i would give them a sandwich and a
|bottle of water or something, not more crack
|u/Expensive-Seaweed- - 3 hours
|
|How else are you gonna ensure you’ve got someone on standby in
|the future in case you need any more work done?
|u/ultraheater3031 - 1 hour
|
|In case any naive Redditors are wanting to give this a shot,
|holding crack over a crackheads head as a means to get
|something done is a surefire way to get assaulted. Either
|you put the fear of God into them or you don't even bring up
|the possibility of crack otherwise you'll now be seen as a
|new avenue of acquiring it and not someone to hit up for
|work.
|u/crexkitman - 3 hours
|
|Hey well I know what they’re taking the job for. Easier to cut
|out the middleman. Plus it’s more motivation to actually get
|the job done and quick when they know they’re working for
|crack and not money to go out and pay for crack or worse,
|stealing my shit, to sell, to get money, to find and buy
|crack. Easier for everyone this way
|u/PM_ME_SMALL__TIDDIES - 3 hours
|
|*cue the office theme song*
|u/Silicon_Folly - 3 hours
|
|big Royce du Pont vibes
|u/crexkitman - 1 hour
|
|That dude some big fat cat union buster monopoly dude from
|like the 1890’s or some shit? Sounds like some old money
|name who exploits workers lol. Or is that the crazy son
|heir of the Dupont chemical company?
|u/LolThatsNotTrue - 3 hours
|
|> tweaker furiously burrows into airplane tire
|u/kndyone - 4 hours
|
|Most of these places also dont put up with shit from foreigners, if
|you aren't able to pay your way they will boot you out or put you in
|prison.
|u/strangelove4564 - 7 hours
|
|"I've got this plan, it's the greatest plan anyone has ever seen. The
|copper thieves, the people stealing your car radios and hubcaps and
|all, we put them on a plane to Phuket with some spending money.
|People ask me all the time, they say is it going to be expensive. You
|spend $700 for the plane ticket or you spend $50,000 at state prison.
|I get governors calling me up all the time, they can't believe it,
|they say Mr President you just saved us $49,000 times ten thousand
|state prisoners, how did you come up with this great deal."
|u/Terpomo11 - 5 hours
|
|Are you quoting something?
|u/RANDY_MAR5H - 2 hours
|
|Now all we need is Spirit Airlines to have some routes from LA, NY,
|Baltimore, Austin, Little Rock, and we'll be rocking and rollin to
|laos
|u/saintjimmy43 - 11 hours
|
|"Phonesavanh, we need to cook."
|u/Brave-Side-8945 - 6 hours
|
|Laos Pollos Hermanos
|u/ianhanni - 1 hour
|
|Lalo salamanca ❌ Laos salamanca ✔️
|u/TheHuggableZombie - 7 hours
|
|Lmao
|u/OpineLupine - 11 hours
|
|They did the meth, and lowered prices.
|u/CajunGrits - 9 hours
|
|They did the monster meth
|u/Background_Face - 9 hours
|
|It was a rehab smash
|u/WORKING2WORK - 7 hours
|
|It was a graveyard stash
|u/Ameriggio - 5 hours
|
|r/theydidthemeth
|u/istira_balegina - 11 hours
|
|They tried selling it to me as mdma
|u/wastingtoomuchthyme - 7 hours
|
|They got the MA part right... Missing the MD
|u/206throw - 6 hours
|
|How was it?
|u/istira_balegina - 5 hours
|
|When they said I had to melt it, I had questions
|u/Xabster2 - 2 hours
|
|Wait, melt Molly? I've taken it 15 times or so, always been a
|slightly brown crystal structure and dosage was about 0.1g
|Swallowed it normally but snorted it too, don't recommend
|snorting. But melting??
|u/ScrofessorLongHair - 2 hours
|
|Yeah, you don't melt it.
|u/MrPanchole - 10 hours
|
|But Beer Lao is the best beer in SEA.
|u/TooLazyToRepost - 3 hours
|
|Beer Lao is pretty solid. It's no Singha though.
|u/plastic_alloys - 1 hour
|
|Lmao
|u/mazemadman12346 - 11 hours
|
|I would bet 2 meth tablets that china is purposefully fuelling drug
|epidemics in other countries to take advantage of the consequences The
|gov already found that the ccp had a direct tie to supplying fentanyl to
|cartels for the purpose of trafficking into the us
|u/Hobgoblin_Khanate - 10 hours
|
|Drugs have been cheap in Laos for a long time
|u/Flares117 - 11 hours
|
|Next election, instead of polymarket using crypto to bet on elections.
|We'll be using meth tablets as currency. Invest in meth
|u/SherlockFoxx - 9 hours
|
|Someone did the meth, and it checks out.
|u/correcthorsestapler - 4 hours
|
|r/theydidthemeth Edit: apparently it’s a real sub.
|u/Qetuowryipzcbmxvn - 3 hours
|
|Way ahead of you, bud. I've got enough meth to last my grandchildren
|through the nuclear winter.
|u/brus_wein - 8 hours
|
|As far as I know fentanyl is completely synthetic, unlike cocaine or
|heroin, and synthesising it is a bit (lot?) more complicated than the
|trivial shake-n-bake you can do with off the shelf precursors with
|meth.
|u/butt_huffer42069 - 3 hours
|
|You can make fentanyl in your home with the right precursors and
|some basic lab glass. The precursors and reagents are almost all
|available on the clearnet, thru Alibaba and the like. There may be a
|few you need to use darknet markets to purchase, but iirc it's not
|needed, as everything was available recently on a news documentary I
|watched.
|u/kolejack2293 - 4 hours
|
|> the ccp had a direct tie to supplying fentanyl to cartels for the
|purpose of trafficking into the us The government studies on this did
|not find that the *CCP* was doing this. It found that criminal
|organizations linked with manufacturing companies were producing
|precursors to fentanyl to be shipped illegally to Mexico. The CCP does
|not approve of this, but much of the manufacturing happens in the
|poorer interior and southern regions where corruption is rife and so a
|lot of organized crime flourishes there. However, there is still
|criticism that the CCP isn't doing enough to clamp down on it, simply
|because it isn't affecting them much. But the organizations producing
|the fentanyl precursors are still despised by the government for other
|reasons. They aren't working together.
|u/SteelWheel_8609 - 9 hours
|
|China is [taking notes from the
|CIA](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_drug_trafficking_allegations)
|it seems.
|u/UltimateCheese1056 - 7 hours
|
|More like taking notes from the British in the opium war(s)
|u/mazemadman12346 - 9 hours
|
|Copying us as always 🙄
|u/Fromzy - 10 hours
|
|Well yeah, it’s retribution for the 2 opium wars
|u/Severe_Avocado2953 - 6 hours
|
|That and Tiktok
|u/Misery_Division - 10 hours
|
|The Opium Wars were with the UK though, the US and especially
|countries like Laos and Myanmar had nothing to do with it
|u/ReallyMemes - 9 hours
|
|Holy shit has nobody ever read about the Golden triangle in their
|entire life. The US absolutely did traffick drugs in Laos and
|Myanmar and Thailand
|u/Misery_Division - 1 hour
|
|How is that at all relevant to what I said? The CCP is not
|supplying Laos and Myanmar and Thailand with drugs as some sort
|of retribution for the Opium Wars. Edit: the Golden Triangle is
|about drug trafficking in Laos/Thailand/Myanmar from the 1970's
|on. The Opium Wars I mentioned are 2 specific conflicts between
|the UK and China in the mid 1800's.
|u/Plane-Tie6392 - 8 hours
|
|You got more sources? Like because of this post I was just
|reading about a military group in that area that manufactures a
|lot of meth. So if like someone wanted to fund that military
|group wouldn't they automatically be funding meth manufacturing?
|That is, might it not be a byproduct rather than the goal?
|u/apocalypse_later_ - 9 hours
|
|I don't wanna be that guy, but yes the US absolutely did. It's not
|talked about much but used to be one of our first steps in
|destabilizing countries we wanted to strong-arm. That, and funding
|fringe groups..
|u/KrazyIrish89 - 7 hours
|
|The US absolutely did not take part in the Opium Wars of 1839
|and 1856...
|u/Secure_Ad1628 - 6 hours
|
|Sure but the US was easily the second biggest beneficiary of
|the Opium smuggling into China, some of the most rich American
|families got their fortune from the drugs, famously the
|Forbes.
|u/I_will_take_that - 8 hours
|
|Why the fuck do Americans always think their country are the good
|guys Its either "We didn't do it", or " other countries did it so
|we can too"
|u/Zigleeee - 7 hours
|
|Lifetime of propaganda. Literally wake up at 6am go to school
|and say the national anthem, then after school come home to some
|random news broadcast talking about how china is bad. I’m from
|the US. The superiority complex is in everything we do and see
|from foreign nations. Even Canada isn’t immune with them
|constantly melting on the immigrant problem and the lack of
|money they have.
|u/in-den-wolken - 13 minutes
|
|Most Americans have never traveled in any significant way, and
|believe that their country is literally the best in the world on
|every single dimension. And they just elected a president who
|is going to loudly reinforce that message for the next four
|years. (If anything should go wrong, naturally it will be the
|fault of the immigrants, homosexuals, Mozlems, etc.)
|u/Misery_Division - 1 hour
|
|1) I'm not American 2) Americans are bad guys, but not the
|culprits of the Opium Wars
|u/I_will_take_that - 57 minutes
|
|Then you clearly dont have any fucking idea what you are
|talking about, read up on the history of the opium wars before
|coming in and chatting shit. In fact, a simple Google search
|already shows you what you need to know
|u/Misery_Division - 48 minutes
|
|The First Opium War (Chinese: 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Dìyīcì yāpiàn
|zhànzhēng), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a
|series of military engagements fought between the British
|Empire and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839 and 1842.
|The Second Opium War (simplified Chinese: 第二次鸦片战争;
|traditional Chinese: 第二次鴉片戰爭), also known as the Second
|Anglo-Chinese War or Arrow War,[3] was fought between the
|United Kingdom and France against the Qing dynasty of China
|between 1856 and 1860 Funny how the Anglo-Chinese wars
|didn't involve America, innit
|u/Fromzy - 10 hours
|
|Take no prisoners baby! Look at fentanyl in the U.S…. REBENGE!!!
|u/pandaho92 - 8 hours
|
|It was china that flooded the kiwi and Australian markets with meth in
|the 90s. And while the gangs of the major cities were fighting
|amongst themselves, china made its way in and took over that market.
|u/asinine_assgal - 8 hours
|
|What do you mean by China? The government or criminal organizations
|based in China?
|u/pandaho92 - 7 hours
|
|Criminal organisations based in china. Just like here, these
|organisations are allowed to exist and do things the government
|can’t.
|u/kndyone - 4 hours
|
|They learn from the best right?
|u/mOjzilla - 2 hours
|
|Isn't most of party MD drugs manufactured there while CCP turns a
|blind eye. All the fentanyl deaths are tied to them. Its a wild place
|with no ethics and just purely profit driven. At this point even
|cartels might be ordering from them.
|u/AirCanadaFoolMeOnce - 29 minutes
|
|They don’t forget the Opium Wars.
|u/Draeiou - 10 hours
|
|well well the turntables
|u/f_ranz1224 - 7 hours
|
|Ah yes. The CIA playbook
|u/A_Bridgeburner - 6 hours
|
|China is 100% the cause of canadas opioid epidemic. Vancouver is the
|global epicentre of the fentanyl crisis.
|u/mgj6818 - 7 hours
|
|A lot of the switches that have proliferated stateside all of the
|sudden came from Ali express.
|u/mazemadman12346 - 6 hours
|
|You can make 100 switches a day with a $500 cnc router
|u/xolov - 7 hours
|
|Always wondered where they are made and by who when they say things
|like the drugs were produced in a highly advanced laboratorium.
|u/magus_vk - 8 hours
|
|>*The assistant director at the Transformation Center, one of only two
|privately-run rehabilitation centres in the country, told Al Jazeera
|that while “everything got more expensive” in Laos during COVID-19,
|“drugs got cheaper, a lot cheaper.” “Meth tablets are probably a third
|or maybe a quarter of what they were five or six years ago; it’s cheaper
|than beer and fried rice.”* >*“When you look at drug supply, it’s at
|unprecedented levels, there’s no doubt about that. Laos has never seen
|the volumes that they see now,” he said. “Traffickers are using Laos to
|move massive quantities of drugs from Myanmar out to regional and
|international markets, and larger volumes of chemicals back the other
|way.”* >***Groups in Myanmar are at the heart of this trade.*** *For
|decades, the drug trade has provided vital funds for ethnic armed groups
|and military-aligned militias in the troubled state, with narcotics
|flowing across the border into China, Laos, and Thailand and onto the
|international market.* ***The coup in Myanmar has only accelerated the
|industry’s output.*** \[From Article\] YouTuber Juice Media's
|satirical take on sponsors of the Myanmar Junta
|([here](https://youtu.be/ERiZRUIlnaw?si=mGMzeZkQsqU4sN_5)). Can't
|imagine the devastation this causes to people, families and communities.
|It's so easy to be dismissive of moon-shine snorting Appalachians *until
|you live in Appalachia.*
|u/SweetHammond - 8 hours
|
|You can buy pretty much any drug at the bar in Laos, crazy. Still have a
|pic of the secret drug menu they called the “sexy menu” that was quickly
|grabbed from my hands when I took the picture.
|u/bllclntn - 6 hours
|
|Please post it!!!
|u/brightestflame - 4 hours
|
|[https://imgur.com/a/u4Y2Jq3](https://imgur.com/a/u4Y2Jq3)
|u/butt_huffer42069 - 3 hours
|
|Damn, no H
|u/aba994 - 2 hours
|
|yeah no blow either. I’m not trying to become a speed fiend, I
|just wanna rack some lines
|u/Flares117 - 11 hours
|
|At 25 cents, I can't blame anyone for trying meth. Imagine getting
|high for a quarter
|u/mankytoes - 10 hours
|
|Laos is very poor so you've got to scale that up.
|u/TheLizardKing89 - 9 hours
|
|Exactly. Can’t charge US prices for people who don’t have US money.
|u/passwordstolen - 11 hours
|
|Yea that’s not going to happen.
|u/SFDessert - 10 hours
|
|Yea fuck that. I was a legit alcoholic all throughout my 20s and I'm
|only just now sorting my shit out in my mid-30's. Even back then I
|knew I had zero desire to try meth even if it was offered to me for
|free. Fuck that.
|u/passwordstolen - 10 hours
|
|I’ve never really done a lot of hard drugs. But I will pledge to
|you that 48hours after you are done, you’re searching for more.
|Yaaa, Florida
|u/dripstain12 - 7 hours
|
|Believe it or not, alcohol will probably kill you faster. That’s
|putting the illegality and all the trouble that comes with it
|aside. You’ll probably go crazy much quicker though.
|u/Rahnamatta - 6 hours
|
|> I'm only just now sorting my shit out in my mid-30's. I read
|SNORTING
|u/Plantar-Aspect-Sage - 4 hours
|
|3-meo-pcp was a 6 hour trip for $0.50 and was the best when it was
|around (discontinued now). They should get better drugs. Though,
|to be fair, meth is pretty fun in moderation.
|u/rop_top - 10 hours
|
|I mean, I can buy bullets for a few cents, that's doesn't make me go
|out and shoot myself, just because it would solve a lot of problems.
|u/chicken9lbs6oz - 4 hours
|
|Hey I don’t like the downvotes you are getting. Reach out if you
|need a random ear. I’ve lost many friends. There is help.
|u/bgause - 4 hours
|
|I live in Thailand and yaba (meth pills) are everywhere and have been
|ubiquitous for decades. There are stories of employers giving them to
|workers to boost productivity... Very cheap and ubiquitous. Laos and
|Myanmar are the two closest countries, so this is not a surprise at
|all...and frankly, all three nations have much bigger problems to solve
|right now.
|u/sammybwise53 - 10 hours
|
|I’d like 1 meth please
|u/botglm - 11 hours
|
|r/theydidthemeth
|u/Puzzled_Ad_3576 - 5 hours
|
|r/subsithoughtifellfor
|u/Sharp-Studio-7561 - 11 hours
|
|Stunningly beautiful country with amazing people. Shame it was bombed
|relentlessly for no reason and is now being subject to chinese
|encroachment.
|u/Summoorevincent - 2 hours
|
|The reason was to stop communism.
|u/Background_Face - 9 hours
|
|Now we know why Khan moved his family to Arlen, TX.
|u/rankinfile - 5 hours
|
|Supplying precursors to Walter White.
|u/pm_me_ur_McNuggets - 9 hours
|
|Honey! Pack your bags!
|u/obrazovanshchina - 8 hours
|
|What is the societal impact of meth at those prices. I shudder to think
|u/IamNebo - 6 hours
|
|I’ll take 1 meth, please.
|u/RedPanda888 - 4 hours
|
|Hello Shadowlands is the best book to read about the southeast Asian
|meth manufacturing business. In summary, Myanmar basically produces the
|lions share of the supply of pill form meth (yaba) in the lawless
|regions. So it being so cheap in Laos doesn’t surprise me, it is very
|accessible in the region.
|u/BenjRSmith - 4 hours
|
|They call me The Crazy Laotian, cause my price slashing is insane! Come
|on down before they put me away for all these crazy prices! That's
|Crazy Laotian, the lowest meth prices this side of the Pacific Ocean!!!!
|u/UsernamesAre4Nerds - 10 hours
|
|Anyone know how much a ticket to Laos is?
|u/No_Bandicoot3103 - 11 hours
|
|I wouldn't know what I was seeing if I saw meth. If it does what the
|guys a 7-11 look like, no thanks. Not adverse to drugs. Just still want
|to be in control.
|u/Other_Acount_Got_Ban - 8 hours
|
|I thought these countries were pretty strict on drugs
|u/LeighaLush - 4 hours
|
|You can also get the death penalty for selling it in Thailand.
|u/kndyone - 4 hours
|
|Standard journalism / reddit shit, the picture is Cambodian not Laotian.
|u/Berninz - 2 hours
|
|Yuck
|u/ContactusTheRomanPR - 1 hour
|
|1 meth = 1 meth
|u/themothyousawonetime - 10 hours
|
|Is it possible to do a Ronny Chieng and reconstitute it into cold and
|flu medicine for an exam I have
|u/GlizzyGulper6969 - 7 hours
|
|Well, off to Laos
|u/Hereiamonce - 5 hours
|
|Budget Walter White
|u/Get_your_grape_juice - 5 hours
|
|Sounds like a methy situation.
|u/lupinegray - 8 hours
|
|I should become laotian. You wanna become the ocean? Laotian! Laotian!
|I don't know what you're saying!
|u/IncaDragon - 5 hours
|
|King of the Hill ftw
|u/Canadiancurtiebirdy - 5 hours
|
|I don’t know what to do with this information
|u/PaulbunyanIND - 4 hours
|
|Is north korea producing it?
|u/silent_thinker - 4 hours
|
|No need to pay for food if you take cheap meth all the time. Probably
|won’t survive very long though.
|u/carlcjon - 2 hours
|
|i don't think myanmar's current civil war shitshow is benefiting from
|all that cheap meth.
|u/rediraim - 2 hours
|
|thanks for the tip, OP! booking my ticket now.
|u/Mal-De-Terre - 2 hours
|
|Somehow not at all tempting.
|u/Ffffqqq - 1 hour
|
|If we're talking pills, there's American made meth pressed Adderall on
|the market that goes down to like 50 cents in bulk. Spend 800-900 on
|meth and you're under $4/gram. Call it 50 mg doses and you're at 20
|cents/dose. I don't do drugs. I just looked up the most popular meth
|vendors on the darknet.
|u/NoSorryZorro - 1 hour
|
|Congratulations
|u/Holy_Smokesss - 1 hour
|
|"Back in my day you could buy a hit of meth for a quarter"
|u/dako3easl32333453242 - 1 hour
|
|I'll take one meth please.
|u/Yan-Paing - 1 hour
|
|Welcome to the Golden Triangle! where drugs n online scams are the
|source of our country´s income😁
|u/tripledoubleagent007 - 1 hour
|
|Getting my passport now
|u/Solid_Initial7897 - 1 hour
|
|Phoenix and Bakersfield are big mad about this
|u/JustAdminThrowaway - 12 minutes
|
|That’s pretty meth’ed up
|u/Fresh-Army-6737 - 11 hours
|
|Oh... Cool.... :/
|u/jameskchou - 10 hours
|
|The blue ones cost more
|u/EmbarrassedHelp - 8 hours
|
|All three countries have North Korean embassies, so I imagine there are
|a ton of drugs like meth flowing North Korea and through those embassies
|into each country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illicit_activities_of_
|North_Korea#Drug_trade
|u/Puzzled_Conflict_264 - 3 hours
|
|It’s through Myanmar, local militia is funding wars by producing
|drugs.
|u/Total_Decision123 - 7 hours
|
|Bye mom!!!!
|u/ghostmetalblack - 7 hours
|
|See ya later, mom. Going to Laos!
|u/NoTry7747 - 5 hours
|
|Walter white in shambles
|u/Specialist-Cookie-61 - 5 hours
|
|And people think I go to Thailand for...other reasons. It's the meth,
|people!
|u/Lokarin - 5 hours
|
|Ya... but it's really Laosy meth
|u/Milios12 - 4 hours
|
|I guess I'm going to Thailand. You thought I was going to say Laos?
|What am I? A meth addict?
|u/Both_Lychee_1708 - 4 hours
|
|It's good to see a country that effectively fights inflation
|u/More-Talk-2660 - 10 hours
|
|Well it can't be very good
|u/GGme - 8 hours
|
|No, it's meth.
|u/More-Talk-2660 - 38 minutes
|
|Yes, that was the joke
|u/hopeless_case46 - 9 hours
|
|Thailand it is
|u/Famous_Bit_5119 - 8 hours
|
|Well, thath going to cause a meth in thothiety.
|u/LanaDelHeeey - 8 hours
|
|Found out where I’m moving
|u/HumbleXerxses - 7 hours
|
|Well....Tulsa, time to step up your game.
|u/UltraCinnamom - 7 hours
|
|Imagine if Walt lives here
|u/validusrex - 7 hours
|
|Hell yeah
|u/Xx_Silly_Guy_xX - 7 hours
|
|Finally some good news
|u/JackHughman69 - 6 hours
|
|Well I know where to move now!
|u/Mantato1040 - 6 hours
|
|Thath gonna be a meth.
|u/StrategicTension - 5 hours
|
|Good for them!
|u/Dannysmartful - 5 hours
|
|Who uses Meth anymore? Like 4th graders? Seriously what year is this?
|u/OTTER887 - 4 hours
|
|Meanwhile in America, I can't get my Adderall.
|u/Cautious_Quit_3268 - 3 hours
|
|South East Asia rules.
|u/DrF4ther - 3 hours
|
|Laos rules! Laos rules!
|u/BroccoliMcFlurry - 3 hours
|
|You'll never sing that
|u/TheLoneGunman559 - 3 hours
|
|25 cents? Can you even get high off that???
|u/VxmpyrX - 3 hours
|
|On my way !
|u/DikTaterSalad - 3 hours
|
|Don't tell my sister, she'll swin the ocean.
|u/BokChoySr - 2 hours
|
|Good for them!! Dance like nobody is watching!
|u/PeesaGawwbage - 2 hours
|
|Congrats!
|u/GreatEmperorAca - 10 hours
|
|Charms of the golden triangle
|u/JardinSurLeToit - 2 hours
|
|Somewhat exciting that prices are dropping anywhere.
|u/Mr_Piddles - 10 hours
|
|Note to self, go to Laos for my ADHD meds.
|u/mere_hair - 7 hours
|
|It will always be Burma to me
|u/LIslander - 6 hours
|
|Isn’t this why Singapore has death penalty for drugs, to not end up with
|the issues other Asian nations have.
|u/rankinfile - 5 hours
|
|The kingpins want to launder their money without the grime following
|them.
|u/CyberInTheMembrane - 5 hours
|
|Whereas in Laos and Thailand, you famously get cuddled by puppies as
|penalty for drug trafficking.
|u/wild_crazy_ideas - 5 hours
|
|What is meth, what does it do for you ELI5?
|