Do you think Xanax would be as popular if real oxy presses were as widely available?

Title basically states itself. I feel like xanax is only really popular because things like oxy aren't ubiquitous. I occasionally order a small bag of bars just to chill out on, but definitely would take oxy presses if they were real and not fent etc.

Xanax popularity in culture and usage rates are sooooo much higher than they were just a few years ago. This has to be simply because they're everywhere and so easy to get and not because of peoples true love of the effects. Thoughts?


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[24 Points] None:

xanax and oxy are totally different drugs bro

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[6 Points] BakedPastaParty:

I always ponder this idea and I definitely think so. More people would try them at least, if they were this available, theyd be 15max a pop and people would be going crazy. They ravaged through my hometown in the late 00s but the supply nosedived and everyone went to heroin


[5 Points] ajfeifje343:

I'm going to assume that you are younger, and never saw the Oxy wave, when real 30s were 5$ and IR 80s were 10$ a piece in bulk. This is the majority of the reason why America became hooked on opiates. In my high school, everyone could get 30s anytime, for 20$ a piece because we came a little bit late in the wave.

Now, in the city, I would pay 25$ a 30 which are the only common ones (I don't use OC and haven't in years). That's a 500% price increase that the user base couldn't keep up with. Some bankrupted themselves or ruined their family and lives, most others went to heroin, a lot got clean.

Now, you're living in the Xanax wave. Cheap plentiful xanax from USA and abroad...

I would say 90% of the people who started using OC wouldn't have if it wasn't easy to obtain all the time, and wasn't already floating around. It is too late in the game, heroin is so rampant fake OCs have a limited audience.


[2 Points] Theeconomist1:

Ummm, I don't know. I guess don't buy the premise that Oxy/opioid users turn to xanax instead due to pricing and lack of presses. I know I don't. Alp is not a substitute good for opioids. Perhaps casual drug users who are experimenting and fucking around might be more inclined to get into opioids if they were cheaper - I'm sure there is a price barrier for many. But I can guarantee you opioid addicts/dependent users don't consider Xanax instead of Oxy/Norco/Opioid except maybe to help deal with withdrawals.


[2 Points] None:

I think it has to do with scheduling and source material. I don't know much about anything but I can find a gram of alprazolam pretty easily, regardless of price. I can't find a gram of oxycodone regardless of price. also oxy is schedule 2 I believe, where benzo's in general are schedule 4.


[2 Points] bamalinger:

I agree OP. Oxy is a better drug.


[2 Points] globking:

If someone could make presses with actual oxy...yes. That shit would be bangin.


[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] None:

um.... no? they're not even in the same class of drugs? one is an opiate one is a benzo. they literally do completely different things. im utterly confused by this post


[1 Points] EastOaklandCase_Boys:

If oxycodone was as easy to synthesize alprazolam and if it was as widely available, there would be a super epidemic in the United States. People would be pressing pills, but if the sythesized oxycodone powder which was identical to the original OG purdue Oxycotin, I bet people would be making custom dope pressed pills like ecstasy. Heroin usage would take a HUGE dive only if the cost of the pressed pills were comparable to Xanax pressed pills bought in bulk. To answer the other part of the question, people would still buy bars. Sometimes it's impossible for me to sleep on opiates unless I take a good ole benzo. Too bad this will never happen though. Could you imagine ordering a 10K pack of pressed Oxycotin lol. Or if someone found a real chemist who could synthesize real oxy powder, but kept his plug a secret and pressed them himself. I'd say if that dude had impenetrable opsec and very few loyal workers (because they'd be getting blue chips too), in a decade his operation would be in the billions. This is if he had no competition and was the only one with line. PS. That vendor claiming he has "real" pressed oxy pills and an oxy powder source is a fuckin liar. I never even tried them , nor do I even know the vendors name, but I'm not stupid.


[1 Points] valuum:

I saw pure oxy hcl back online in 06. Was $360 a gram and from Canada. Dealer was hella sketch and I honestly think may have been tony76 from Sr.


[1 Points] Udaypbuh:

Xanax has always sold/been popular way before pressed bars became the new thing.


[1 Points] elfer90:

apples n oranges


[0 Points] longboardVA:

This is an easy question to answer.

Xanax doesn't make me feel like shit, it chills me out, gets me a bit euphoric, and is much easier to find.