It’s true Instagram isn’t necessarily the safest way to meet a drug dealer, but is obtaining a prohibited substance ever 100% safe? One of the biggest red flags is being asked to wire transfer a scammer who doesn’t give you a tracking number when sending you their product. Some users just advertise products to their current customer base, “Especially now with buds and wax,” said a recreational pot user from the East Coast, but she said she would be afraid to buy from someone she didn’t know on Instagram.
You’ve been listening to a little too much DJ Screw and have decided you need to get your hands on some Codeine to get your drank on, ala “sip on some sizzurp.” With Instagram unable to ban all tags related to illegal drug use, you can get almost any prescription or club drug delivered to you just by DMing an account that advertises piles of pills or wads of cash. “I’m a smooth talker, don’t judge,” he told me, so I guess I should say 420 friends, possibly with benefits. One user was batting two out of five with hooking up with girls he met through the app. If you do push through the hiccups and get the hang of the interface, you can talk to a lot of likeminded people who are down to chill as your 420 friend.
For first time users, the interface is not 100% intuitive you have to go into a separate connections menu and approve the requests from those that liked your profile before you can start conversations, and under connections there are three separate windows for chats, requests and “friends” aka matches under a submenu. “If it crashes and continues to have issues, I’m probably going to delete it and move onto something else,” he told me three minutes before our conversation disappeared due to a glitch. According to one user, he lost multiple conversations with people on the app. At face value, this is a great concept but there are some serious glitches and usability problems. Then you can click on different users’ profiles deciding if you would like to connect.
You enter your energy level when on weed, what you want to do with the other party (chat, go out, or stay in) and list the activities you enjoy when high. Thank goodness for High There! This app is basically Tinder for stoners. So now that you’ve had your weed delivered, researched strains and know for sure your weed is 100% safe to use, you’ll need to find someone to enjoy it with (or not).
The fact that any delivery drivers are showing up on the map at all is surprising because according to Eaze’s website, the app is only available in San Francisco and the Bay Area. I doubted I would have had much luck later though, it’s clear from the app’s map that the drivers are steering clear of LA city proper and only driving in the nearby cities of Santa Monica and Culver City. But when I attempted to order any of their products, Eaze said that none of their drivers were in my area but that I should try again later. After quickly getting an account verified via a photograph of my medical marijuana prescription and photo ID, the system let me browse through a selection of flowers (what the legal smoking community calls weed in plant form), prerolls, edibles and concentrates. Although the app is advertised as being for both iOS and Android, in LA I could only find it in the Google Play store. After a failed attempt at using Nestdrop, I tried ordering through the San Francisco-based app Eaze (which touts Snoop Dogg as one of its investors).