Comments on: The Modern Speakeasy: Buying Smack on the Streets of LA

By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:25:03 +0000

I love this. Read it several times now… Moved to L.A. six months ago, started scoring on Skid Row (that shit is SO hit or miss tho.. You just never know man… Sucks…), anyway I’ve got a reg connect now but his hours suck and so do the prices. And now I’ve moved to long beach, so to even meet my connect is a crazy crappy drive… So tell me people, where do u score in L.B.?????

By: the dude

the dude — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:53:28 +0000

i dont know about la, but i always thought tar was sold by the “balloon” or whatever. In buffalo we get powder in the old school glassine bags, like in that american gangster. And usually copping is easier by ethnic group out here, if you want heroin its the ricans, crack is black.

By: Peachy

Peachy — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 06:03:10 +0000

Loved this story. I just moved to LA and made a trip to Skid Row… Spent 40 bucks on a rock that was supposed to be oxycontin. But by rock I mean a rock off the ground, not even a crack rock. I had a hard time even getting that though. It wasnt like the Tenderloin in San Fran where people come up to you trying to sell you pills or dope or whatever, maybe I went on the wrong day. Just got a place in Hollywood though so glad to know to steer away from the gays unless I’m looking for meth.

By: BTH

BTH — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:15:52 +0000

If this was your first time trying to cop, why did you say “i only have 50 bucks so I’ll take a gram”? A gram is enough to kill you 1000 times over if you’re a rookie.

I actually did a similar thing when I first tried copping on my own. I went to a mostly gay area that has meth because it seemed less threatening than where the actual chiva is, which is in some pretty bleak areas. But i learned when all I got was gay dudes hitting on me and offers of coke and meth.
No way you’d have to hang out at MacArthur Park for a week. An hour tops you could get someone to deal. Dealers need money, they can’t have ppl waiting a week to buy.

Anyway, like your story.

By: jollyk

jollyk — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:01:55 +0000

“Bitchiest comment on this whole page was from petkov. What a lit-bitch.”

Yeah I mean, I liked HST. Now, he is dead. I’m happy that people are writing like him in his absence.

By: Seano

Seano — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:15:09 +0000

Bitchiest comment on this whole page was from petkov. What a lit-bitch.

By: thuggin

thuggin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:47:51 +0000

i love this article. yasha for life

By: internet anti-Zionists

internet anti-Zionists — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:52:34 +0000

A drug dealer … in Los Angeles … who drives a Mercedes … who is named David … David Short, no less … and he’s “Arab-looking.”

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:38:31 +0000

Whatchoo talkin’ ’bout, Willis! I fucking live on that corner and I’m white as a sheet. That’s the safest corner in all of Hollywood!

You just go to the Hot Wings place (formerly Benito’s Taco Stand) and order some food and pretty soon, if you’re sitting there for any amount of timee, someone will come and offer you drugs or you get to see tranny hookers banging each other’s heads against nail-encrusted telephone poles. Either way, it’s a good time.

I love my neighborhood.

By: Anthony Cristofani

Anthony Cristofani — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:39:20 +0000

Excellent. It’s interesting how class divisions perpetuate our ability to be punked by one the saddest, sickest wars of human history: the drug war. Who I fault most: the millions upon millions of white-collar drug users who don’t admit it, and thus perpetuate the stereotype that drugs are for the poor and failed.

By: rick

rick — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:31:34 +0000

I know how speed gets sexuality going, it’s an interesting scene. Far more interesting than the average disgusting crossroads in America, where even if you took a bunch of speed, you’d rather be all alone than fuck the disgustingly fat creatures there. I’ve never done meth, but on coke and ritalin and adderall, the sex intensity is so goddamned pronounced, it lights up the nature of this kind of brothel, where everybody’s male. Interesting too the relationship between the lustful pseudo-whore, wanting to get paid, and the skeptical customer, who expects the kid is a slut. When I knew some fags in New York, I noticed this thing I dubbed “relationship skepticism,” eroding the possibility of homosexual male relationships in the PC Dan Savage “child-adopting” school, out of the inability of one male to credit another’s will-to-relationship. The economy broke down, due to one male’s understandably distrusting the next. But that’s in worlds of attractive, vital people, which is not relevant to most Americans, gay or straight.

By: burbl

burbl — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:44:07 +0000

LOL
This doesn’t sound like much of an incentive for your “Drugs: Helping our Readers Come Out of the Closet” advice!

By: petkov

petkov — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:28:53 +0000

Wow, you have read your Hunter S. Thompson and William S. Burroughs well. Time to stop aping them though. You ain’t impressing nobody.

By: Narcoleptic

Narcoleptic — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:07:30 +0000

Seriously, Yasha, those guys weren’t fucking with you. If you want to buy heroin off the street, McArthur Park and Skid Row are the places to do it (or Long Beach and San Pedro, if you want to take a drive). Be careful, though. Are you actually a “casual” heroin user, or did you just want to write an article?

By: aleke

aleke — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:35:11 +0000

All Cool Gays Love Crazy Tina

By: wengler

wengler — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:54:27 +0000

Excellent story, Yasha.

At some level we all know that the drug war is a class war directed at poor people. The poor people in this country sure, but especially those in other countries.

It’s backed by tens of millions of whitebread parents who don’t even know that junior is getting high on the weekends, and when he gets caught it’s just a slap on the wrist.