How are drugs made cheaper by ‘cutting’ with something that can be even more powerful than the original drug?

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How are drugs made cheaper by ‘cutting’ with something that can be even more powerful than the original drug?

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You take 1 kg of cocaine, add 1 kg of baby powder, you now have 2 kg of shittier cocaine to sell, that’s called cutting.

Now if you want to be known as a “good dealer”, you can add 0.9 kg of baby power, and 0.1 kg of benzocaine, which is relatively cheap, but when they snort it it will make their whole face go numb. and they will think you have good stuff.

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With heroin, you usually cut it with something, and then add fentanyl. Fentanyl is like SUPER concentrated heroin, but its pretty cheap. The problem is a dose of fentanyl is extremely tiny, like grains of sand worth, so if you mix up a bit with the heroin, and you don’t mix it up perfectly, then you end up with areas that have more and less fentanyl, this is why heroin and pain killers have been so deadly lately, people just throw in the fentanyl and don’t mix it properly