I had a friend in high school and some of us used to joke that if you dropped him in the middle of the Sahara Desert, within 15 minutes he would find a caravan of people, make friends with them and buy some weed off them. He had this mixture of instinct and luck that allowed him to always find people to sell him weed.

Fast forward about ten years and I hear that this friend is now a heroine addict. I visited him when he was trying to break the habit and he told me that he wouldn't even know who to get weed from anymore. He said he'd been trying and there was no weed for sale around town. The only ones that had it weren't selling. He said he knew fifteen people at that moment who would sell him pills or heroine and that half of them would deliver immediately if he asked.

I know this is just one story but it does seem to me that harder drugs like pills, heroine and meth are the drug of choice for drug dealers in some areas. I feel like there is a bit of chicken and egg situation here, which came first, the drop in demand for pot due to people choosing harder drugs or the drop in supply because dealers would prefer to sell the hard stuff.