drug slang

Drug Slang Metanode

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Marijuana:

• Slang Names of the herb & derivatives: Cannabis Sativa, dope, pot, weed, bud, indian hemp, ganja, trees, wacky weed, kali, reefer, bud/buds, mary jane, hemp, bhang, hashish, hash, hash oil, wacky terbacky, THC, marinol, mota, green, buddha, shake, hooch, skunk, chronic / the chronic
  • Old names: gunjah, bang, subjee, sidhee, churrus. (Most of these names derive from India)
• Hashish: hash, hasheesh, bhang, dohja, hash oil
• Types of marijuana: Indica & Sativa (the subspecies). sensimilla/sinsemilla/sensi, dank, nug, schwag, chronic, killer weed, bammer, green bud, dank herbs, garden variety, homegrown, kind bud, buddah, ditchweed, Mexican brick, shwizz
  • amounts: eighth, quarter/quad, QP, lid/ounce/zipper,dub, dime bag, nickel bag, bale, brick
  • strains: AK-47, Amstel Gold, Belladonna, Big Bud, Blueberry, Himalaya Gold, Juicy Fruit, Northern Lights, white rhino/white widow/white tiger, Mexican Gold, Acapulco Gold, Matanuska Thunderfuck, silver haze, skunk
• People:
  • Users/abusers: airhead, stoner, pot smoker, pothead, pot smoking hippie
  • Dealers/traffickers: nug smuggler, runner, courier, hookup, connection
• Altered states: blazed, stoned, wasted, buzzed, fucked up, budded, ripped, tore up, burned out,faded, raged, bent, high, high as a kite i.e. NOT sober
• Paraphernalia & consumption: bong/bhong/bhang, water-pipe, joint/J, hookah, blunt, cash, scoob, roll a joint, skin up, toke up/toke/toking, spark, bogart, hotboxing, doobie/dooby, spliff, gas mask
  • Pipes: chillum, sidecar, sherlock, spoon, one-ie, hammer
  • Food: space cake, magic brownies, scooby snack
• Side effects: munchies, cotton mouth, red eyes
• Derivatives & jokes: THC, marinol, 420, 4:20, 4/20, rez, resin
• Mixtures: Coco Puffs (w/ PCP), snow cones (w/ meth - Oh, those Australians)
• See also: Pot Jargon Metanode, Rituals of marijuana, stoner etiquette

Propz to other90percent for the Pot Jargon Metanode for content and organization here

Psychedelics/hallucinogens/entheogens:

• LSD: acid, trip, cid, blotter, microdot, windowpane, drop acid, instant zen, Love for my son and daughters, morning glory seeds MDMA + LSD = candy-flipping
• peyote: buttons, mescaline (active ingredient), mesc
• Mushrooms: shrooms, psylocybin, magic mushrooms, LSD + mushrooms = hippy-flipping
• DXM: Dextromethorphan, cough syrup, robo
• User: Psychonaut

Inhalants:

• Nitrous oxide: nitrous, laughing gas, whippets, whip-its, hippie crack, nangs (Australia)

Lab drugs:

MDMA: ecstasy, X, E, rolling, XTC, Malcolm, adam, rolls, rolling,

ketamine: special k, vitamin k ephedrine

Valium: Jellies, Goofballs, Librium, Ativan

amphetamines:

• Well-known slang: speed, candy, uppers, speedball
• Obscure slang: black beauties, A, Amies, Amp, Bam, Beans, Bennie, Benz, Black and white, Black beauties, Black birds, Black bombers, Black cadillacs, Black mollies, Blue boy, Black dex, Bombido, Bottles, Brain ticklers, Brownies, Browns, Bumblebees, Candy, Cartwheels, Chalk, Chicken powder, Chocolate, Christina, Christmas tree, Co-pilot, Coasts to coasts, Crank, Crisscross, Cross tops, Crossroads, Crystal, Dexies, Diet pills, Dominoes, Double cross, Eye openers, Fives, Footballs, Forwards, French blue, Glass, Head drugs, Hearts, Horse heads, Inbetweens, Jam, Jam cecil, Jelly baby, Jelly bean, Jolly bean, Jugs, Leapers, Lid poppers, Lid proppers, Lightning, Little bomb, Marathons, Minibennie, Nugget, Oranges, Peaches, Pep pills, Pink hearts, Pixies, Powder, Purple hearts, Rhythm, Rippers, Road dope, Roses, Slammin'/Slamming, Snap, Snow, Snow pallets, Sparkle plenty, Sparklers, Speed, Splash, Splivins, Star, Sweets, The C, Thrusters, TR-6s, Truck drivers, Turkey, Turnabout, Uppers, Uppies, Wake ups, West Coast Turnarounds, White Cross, White, Whites, X
  (thank you to Archetype at the Amphetamine node)
• Misc. prescription drugs: Adderall, Ritalin
• Methamphetamine, crystal meth, meth, speed, crank, ice, line (one dose)
• Dextroamphetamine: dexedrine, Dexy's Midnight Runners, dex

Quaaludes, lude, luder

Phencyclidine, PCP, angel dust, killer weed (PCP + weed)

Rohypnol & GHB: gamma hydroxyl butyrate: georgia home boy, liquid ecstasy, grevious bodily harm, max, scoop, Somatomax, Mexican valium, Forget me drug, roofies, rope, ruffles, woofies

DMT

Opium & Opiate Painkillers

• Opium: op
• Heroin: horse, diacetylmorphine, death rattle, the runs
• Opium poppy
• morphine: morphia, morphina
• codeine
• percodan / percocet : percs
• OxyContin: Oxy, hillbilly heroin

Cocaine:

• users: base-head, basehead, cokehead
• names: yay, crack, base, freebase, baseball, homer, C, big C, blow, Bolivian marching powder, coke, crack, cat's pee, candy, dusty roads (when mixed with PCP), Florida snow (lookalike drug), jimmy, rock, whitecoat, lady caine, flake, line (one dose), Nose candy, jack, candy cane, Peruvian, schoolboy, scorpion, snort, snow, wacky dust, weasel dust
• Amounts: Cadillac (one ounce), line (one dose), kilo (one kilogram)
• Mixtures:speedball (w/ heroin)
• See also: slang terms for cocaine metanode

Sources: various related metanodes, http://www.lycaeum.org, http://www.addictions.org/slang.htm

For some reason, I thought it might be nice to have a listing of the various words used in the culture that surrounds marijuana. Most of these, I have gleaned from either context or E2. I may very well be wrong about some of these; if so, msg me and I'll correct it ASAP.

In addition, if there isn't already a write-up, I'll just go ahead and nodeshell them, with an eye toward the future.

• Terms for Marijuana
  • Nancy Reagan Street Guide: pot, dope, grass, reefer, weed
  • Real terms: pot, weed, Mary Jane, 420, ganja, herb
  • silly terms: wacky tobacky, wackey weed, Indiana Ditchweed
• Terms for Types/Forms of Marijuana
  • kind vs schwag, skunk
  • buds vs nugs vs shake
  • garden variety or homegrown
  • dank
  • creeper
  • chronic
• Terms for Quantities
  • wholesale: bale, pound, QP
  • sacks (by quantity): ounce/lid, half, quarter, eighth
  • sacks (by price): dime bag, nickel bag
• Terms for People
  • dealers: hookup, connection, weedman
  • userss: pothead, stoner, burnout
  • others: runner, courier
• Terms for being High
  • baked, blazed, stoned, tore up, faded
  • smoked up
• Terms for paraphenalia/methods of ingestion
  • joint, spliff, doobie, left-handed cigarette, blunt, papers
  • pipe, dugout, one-hitter, one-y, special cigarette
  • bong, hooka
  • steamer
  • space cake, pot brownies