Title. Don't really know where else to post this, and I don't want to deal with the awful comment section anywhere else I'd post this. Today, I made my weekly trip to the shitty gas station across the road. $2 for a tallboy of Voodoo Ranger, $3 for a pack of Marlboros, 50 cents a shot, honestly they're GOATED.
But had some guys just run up on me after I left the gas station and made me buy a gram of weed for $10. They originally wanted $20, but I negotiated them down to $15 and then gave them $10 because they had a guy nodded out in the middle seat so they were high AF of heroin. Passed over the $10, he fist bumped me and gave me a shot of vodka and the bag of weed. After I had the bag, I asked if they laced it. Normally people don't lace weed, but they were very clearly high as balls on opiates so I wanted to be safe. Dude just said maybe then drove off.
It made me laugh though because I quickly realized that this really isn't that much different from any of the random shit we're forced to buy to participate in society. Our society normalizes needing to pay to just exist in a public space. Weird ass situation to be sold weed so aggressively. Ended up smoking the weed and taking the shot. Don't think there was any fent fortunately, but the weed is pretty damn good. I've been forced to pay far more for far less. The city is weird
Edit: small comment section so far but just wanna say I appreciate this community not being bigoted and hate boner-y over this. If I posted this somewhere else, I'd be asked about the race of the people in the car, there would be comments about how someone needs to lace their shit, all these awful things that I just do not want for those people. I got narcanned twice before I stopped touching the shit, once was a normal overdose from me being extraordinarily stupid and secone was a true fent overdose, hitting the patch. Trust me, the two are not comparable, there is nothing like the terror of hitting the fent patch that's always in the news. Dude could have robbed me for $100, even $1000 and I still wouldn't wish an unexpected fent death on them. On the people around them who would have to find his body. If those overdoses didn't make the body look so fucking disgusting, fent would be used for lethal injection here. I find people joking about overdosing people to be really shitty.
God damn, I'd still smoke if that was the price around me lol
I live in the most anti sin tax states in the country. I don't think the state has agreed to a cig tax increase for over a decade, and they can only do like a penny at a time. Marb blacks for $3, Lucky Strikes are $4, can even Signals (like American Spirits but actually made/owned by indigenous people) for $3.50. There are benefits to living in conservative hellholes, it is surprisingly cheap to drink, smoke, and drug your way to a quick death.
Honestly wish smokes costed more here, my kid is only in school 4 days a week now because the district doesn't have the money. If cigs costed more here, I'd be less stressed because of the school and I'd have less money to smoke.
Fuck that's bleak
If it meant my special needs child getting an extra day of school, I'd give up smoking on the spot. It is selfish to smoke as a 22yo, but knowing $3-6 a week is enough to keep the addiction up is too much. That's cheaper than buying a soda everyday. Those taxes suck for me as a smoker but honestly my kid's life would be infinitely better if I couldn't smoke for $3-6 a week and he had an extra day of school. It could be my alcohol, it could be my cigs, could even be the weed that keeps me from having seizures. I'd seize to death if it meant he got the consistent schedule school was able to really provide him.
Damn how did you know?