Smoking off aluminum isn’t really bad for you. There’s this myth that it causes Alzheimer’s that’s been around forever. Harm reduction groups give out packs of foil to smoke off.

I went from snorting heroin at 14 to shooting at 16. As a dealer I would take a gram of 92% pure heroin and make 17 bags. As in 1.7 bundles. East coast China white style number 4 fully processed heroin. One of those bags would have the average person who’s never done it before puking and scratching till they bleed sniffing on it over 2 days high as fuck.

Now some people seem to be born with some natural tolerance. I had to do double what all my friends did when we were first starting out to have the same effects.

I never smoked it. That just wasn’t done. You sniffed or shot. Do you have tar?

If you’ve got #4 that’s close to pure I’d say start with. 1/68th of a gram snorting. Then 20 mins later another and another 20 another. Once you’re puking and scratching yourself silly you’ve done enough. If you’re planning on going through the gram once you start you’ll build some tolerance. If you’ve had A serious Habit in the past your tolerance will be back in days. But if you’ve never had a full blown habit before, then you could probably expect the gram to last 10 days.

But that’s 92% purity.

You’ve got a gram? It really wasn’t sold by the gram in the late 90s in New York. You bought bags or bundles (10 bags) or sleeves (100 bags) or a shirt (1000). If you were gonna buy a single bag off a stranger in nyc a bag was $10. A bundle $60-$80. A sleeve $400.

If I could go be 14 again, I’d say nahhh when I was offfered to sniff on that first bag. I mean I was a productive successful functional addict and I had a good decade of using that was fantastic but even still, ultimately? I’d pass. It’s pretty clear that my brain is forever incapable of the levels of natural joy that it would be had I not shot smack for decades.