its real easy to rip yourself off on the road, when all ya wanna do is smoke some herb, ya made 50 extra bucks, and youre in a prohibition state or something. Can confirm.
Sometimes you're like 2 weeks into being dry, 200 miles from where ya started looking for some herb, playing your guitar, and someone just bends down and drops a gram of hash or a bag of buds or something into your case and carries on. It's like a gift from the heavens when it happens too, especially in a prohibition state. other times ya just end up being dry long enough to trust someone youve never met with 40 bucks knowing you prob wont ever see them or the smoke again.
Theres this thing that happens in the prohibition states too, where hitchhiking and getting from place to place without a car, even if you have plenty of cash becomes near impossible, so ya end up doing a lot of hoofing it and a lot of busking. Ive walked for damn near two weeks straight in TN and kentucky before lol. Totally dry on smoke with plenty of cash in pocket, thumb out, and quality gear on my pack that sates point blank i take care of my stuff, and am not out here trading it for drugs and stuff.
Ive also never met a road busker that doesnt smoke weed. If you got a guitar, and a pack full of gear, and i aint ever seen you here before (thats very obviously a drifter of some kind, and likely without any drug problems either), and i have it on me, youre probably gonna get some hash or some buds because i remember the context when the roles were reversed, and how it felt when that happened