Hustle: Haight Ashbury

By Max Stark

This story is based off of my teenage adventures in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury District. Some may view it as a "how to" of Haight Street drug dealing. Not all of it is true...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 4, 2011
• ISBN: 9781365064883

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Hustle: Haight Ashbury

Hustle: Haight Ashbury

by

Max Stark

Welcome to the Haight

I guess I should explain how I got here. I come from a small town in Southern Oregon called Klamath Falls. Klamath or Meth Falls as it is sometimes referred to, has plenty of methamphetamine, bathtub crank and Mexican weed available to it’s populous  but a serious lack of better drugs. This drug discrepancy has lead the local kids on treks to larger towns and cities (Medford, Eugene, Portland) to get hallucinogens or decent weed. By the time I was about 14 years old I got wise to Klamath’s niche drug deficiency and became an entrepreneur of the party favors our fine town lacked. I would make trips to Eugene and get mushrooms, green bud and LSD and double my money on the small town markup price. I quickly learned a good lessen in economics, specifically supply and demand. It’s simple: take things that are desired and find good prices on them, then find buyers elsewhere at a higher price. My journeys eventually took me all up and down the West Coast, sometimes hitchhiking home with one thousand doses of acid just to get the product back to the awaiting small town minds eager to be blown. It was during these sort of trips in 1997 when at the ripe age of 17 I discovered San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.

The philosophy of Haight Street is simple, make money hustling or go down trying. Street kids, hippies, vagrants, derelicts, drug addicts, the mentally insane; all flock here