Found
this article defining what an '8 ball' means as a unit of measurement. It helps give some context of exactly how much coke Nick had and also why the cops get so anal about relatively small amounts on measuring tools, money etc.
So if an 8 ball comes to 35 hits at 3.5 grams, that means the 26.6 or so grams recovered from Nick's house would give
266 hits. Split three ways among the three addicts of the house (Nick, Kayla and April) that's roughly
88 hits per person.
The reason why even .1 of a gram matters is that .1 is all you need to get high. One hit does the trick. Granted the effects are relatively short-lived (about 20-30 minutes from what I read online), so it's not uncommon for addicts to do multiple hits in a day after the effects wear off. But how many hits are normal in a given day?
Using
this other article as a reference, we can also take a rough estimate of how much coke was being blown (no pun intended) every day by Lil Nicky and co.
If the average cocaine user in New York is using 172 grams per year, that averages out to about .47 grams a day. If we round that up to .5, and assume all three users at Nick's house were doing .5 grams a day, that comes to 1.5 grams a day, meaning that 26.6 grams at the house was enough to last for 17.7 days. That's
over two weeks of daily cocaine use for three people.
Obviously this is all hare-brained math pulled from disparate sources with a lot of assumptions being made, but I think it still puts things in context. 26.6 grams is a worrying amount of coke to have in the house with children around and definitely isn't something you'd see from casual users.
No clue how much of this accurately reflects what happened at Nick's house. It could've been higher or lower for all I know. At any rate it was interesting to read into this and I hope you guys got something out of it.