From:	Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com
Subject:	Price info: Street value
Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:44:02 -0700 (PDT)

> :>Yes, but aren't other controlled substances like cocaine and heroin
more expensive? People still do those, don't they?
> :
> :Cocaine and Heroin are the drugs of white suburbia. Not of poor
inner city street junkies. Which is the profile we're always given
when they talk about BTL junkies.
>
> Funny, I always got the impression that BTL _was_ an upscale
addiction, that the addicts at least didn't start out as flat broke
living in the gutter (though they might end up there in the end).

I think it all depends on the kind of chip. See below...

> :There may very well be different levels of BTLs. Probably getting
more dangerous as you go down the price range. At the high end they're
probably still highly addictive but leave you functional enough to be
able to do what you do that pays enough to get them. At the low end
they probably leave you drooling in a gutter or begging for spare
change at the intersection to fund the next hit.
>
> I like this concept.
<Snippage(TM)>
> -- Paul Gettle, #186 of 1000

Exactly right.

Everyone recall the name "Kong chips"? Cheap imported BTLs from Hong
Kong being sold in Seattle by the Triads in competition with the Yakuza
and Mafia. Nowhere near as reliable...

<Homer voice>
Mmmm...braaain-fryyyyy...
</Homer voice>

...but quite a bit cheaper, which makes them more attractive to those
who need the hit, but don't have the money and don't care about the
consequences.

Apart from those and the experimental types (2XS etc.), no other grades
of BTLs have been described in SR products (I'm not counting Cal Hots
as BTLs for this purpose), but it makes a lot of sense to compare them
to drugs and I think that's the general idea:

California Hots = marijuana and other recreational drugs. Give you a
bit of a high (nothing compared to the hard-core drugs/beetles), but
are quite safe.

BTLs = "standard", reasonably safe drugs, like heroine or cocaine.
You'll burn out if you get a bad chip or OD, but under controlled
conditions you should be all right. Costs more, is more addictive,
gives you a better high.

Kong chips = "non-certified" drugs. The kind of crap you pick up on
street corners from whoever's selling. Guaranteed to crap you out
sooner or later, but it's still a good high.

2XS and other such weird stuff = "designer" drugs. Expensive, but WAY
exciting. Could be safer than usual. Could be the last thing you ever
use.

Well, I'm not a drug-taker myself, so I'm not sure how close my above
definitions are, but I think you guys'll get the picture.

*Doc' decides that he'd rather be a dealer than a user...

"Poker, anyone?"*
==Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow)

.sig Sauer
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