City      Incidence    Who's Using     Change    Method     Other    Emerging    Who's Selling
                                         in Users              Drugs      Drugs
Bridgeport   up         wide range of    none                                      primarily
, CN                    users,                                                     Jamaicans; a
(Geter)                 "everyone"                                                 range of
                                                                                   others
San          up         wide range of    none                PCP                   wide variety
Antonio/                users                                crack                 of sellers
El Paso,
TX
(Ramos)
Los          stable     all ages         none                                      wide variety
Angeles,                                                                           of sellers
CA
(Annon)
San          stable     wide range of    none                                      
Francisco,              users
CA
(Murphy)
Washington   stable     wide range,                bongs     inhalants             
, DC                    male and fIale            blunts    LSD
(Shu)                                                        psilocybi
                                                             n
                                                             alcohol
Baltimore,   up         wide variety     none      no                              
MD                                                 blunts
(Murdoch)
New York,    stable     teens                      blunts    alcohol               
NY                                                           heroin
(Goldsmith
)
Atlanta,     up         young adults,    none                crack      MDMA       young adults
GA                      crack users                                     club
(Sterk-                                                                 drugs
Elifon)
Denver, CO   stable     wide range       none                alcohol               
(Koester)
Miami, FL    up         young college    none      blunts    crack      Ketamine   
(Page)                  users                                alcohol
Newark, DE   increasin  young users;     more                PCP        young      
(Pazzaglin   g          mixed ethnicity  fIales             insectici  sellers
i)           gradually                                       de         known to
                                                             treated    buyers
                                                             jimsonwee
                                                             d
                                                             cocaine
St.          up         high school and  none                alcohol    MDMA       friends
Petersburg              college age                          LSD        Rohypnol   selling to
, FL                                                                               others in
(Mieczkows                                                                         networks
ki)
Trenton/     up         high school and  none      blunts    alcohol    MDMA       young users
Newark, NJ              college                    woolies
(French)                students
New York,    up         everyone         more      blunts    PCP                   
NY                                       young               crack
(Galea)                                  fIales
Austin, TX   up         wide range of    none      blunts    PCP                   some evidence
(Maxwell)               users, most                                                of Colombian
                        young                                                      traffickers as
                                                                                   well as
                                                                                   Mexican
                                                                                   regulars
San Diego,   up         males and        more                cocaine               varies by
CA                      fIales 13-50    teens               methamphe             community
(Pennell)               years old, all                       t-amine
                        ethnicities
Chicago,     up         teens and young  none      blunts    cocaine               sold openly on
IL                      adults                               PCP                   streets like
(Johnson)                                                                          heroin and
                                                                                   cocaine


Table 7 (cont'd.)

Ethnographers' Report on Marijuana: April 1996


       
     City         Purchase            Purity                        Other/Comments
                   Amount
Bridgeport,     $10/bag (3-4   high                   
CN              joints)
(Geter)         1/2 oz. unit
                popular
San                                                   
Antonio/El
Paso, TX
(Ramos)
Los Angeles,    $1/joint                              
CA              $100/oz.
(Annon)
San             $60-$80/1/8    low                    Marijuana is very scarce.  Older users are
Francisco, CA   oz.                                   using water pipes and bongs to utilize
(Murphy)                                              scarce supplies.
Washington,     $5/gram        high                   
DC
(Shu)
Baltimore, MD                                         DAWN mentions for marijuana are up.
(Murdoch)
New York, NY    $5, $10,       good                   Joints with heroin or crack added are
(Goldsmith)     $25/bag                               available, as well as regular bags of
                                                      plain marijuana.
Atlanta, GA     $150-$300/oz.                         Home grown; talk of selling/marketing lots
(Sterk-         $10-$15 for                           of marijuana during the Olympics.
Elifon)         "geek
                  joints"
                (laced with
                  crack)
Denver, CO                     variable               Two grades available in the area:
(Koester)                                             expensive, U.S. grown, and commercial
                                                      grade from Mexico.  Most street marijuana
                                                      is lower grade.
Miami, FL       $200-300/oz    very high potency      SeIs to be some recruitment for marijuana
(Page)                                                use among youths who are starting tobacco
                                                      use
Trenton/Newar   $10/bag (3-4   good                   
k, NJ           joints)
(French)
St.             $30-40/oz.     high                   Inexpensive marijuana doesn't sell.
Petersburg,     poor quality                          PrIium is placed on appearance and smell
FL              $100-135/oz.                          in transactions.
(Mieczkowski)   high quality
New York, NY                                          Increased sales of marijuana in glass
(Galea)                                               vials is evident.  There is also the
                                                      appearance of Indian marijuana laced with
                                                      PCP.
Austin, TX                     variable               Many mixtures in blunts (crack, PCP)
(Maxwell)
Newark, DE                     high quality reported  Heavy mixing of club drugs; "fake" MDMA
(Pazzaglini)                                          made from mixes of percodan, PCP and
                                                      amphetamines; Ketamine and Rohypnol
                                                      popular.
San Diego, CA   $50-$100/oz.   8-16%                  
(Pennell)       $20-$60/gram
                (hashish)
Chicago, IL     $5, $10/bag.                          A year ago it was rare to see marijuana
(Johnson)                                             sold in open drug markets.  Now it is
                                                      quite common.