The German equivalent is “weiße Mäuse sehen”, “seeing white mice”.
I’ve heard of the “alcohol sweats”. After a pretty heavy night of drinking.
Which is why he was so hostile to having his photo taken.
In this famous example, he is trying to hit the camera man with his cane.
As for the OP, how about the very word “stoned”, used to describe the stupor associated with marijuana? (In more modern times, I’ve heard blazed or baked used as variations)
Fried. You forgot fried.
There’s a great song by Gov’t Mule called Thorazine Shuffle. I never knew that the song name was a reference to a specific symptom of the drug. I thought it was just referring to the song style, but I guess it’s a double entendre.
And stoned was used to describe being drunk before it was commonly used to describe the effects of marijuana.
See “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” by John Lee Hooker.
AKA Brewer’s Droop.
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There’s also an old expression in English, to have a monkey on one’s back. The general meaning is to be burdened with a troublesome problem, but there’s also the specific meaning of having an unshakeable addiction.
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Being on the Dope means something very different to “the smartest, hippest people on the internet and a few dipsticks”.
Dire Straits “Industrial Disease”
“I’m not surprised to see you here
You’ve got smoker’s cough from smoking, brewer’s droop from drinking beer
I don’t know how you came to get the Betty Davis’ knees
But, worst of all young man you’ve got industrial disease”
The scientific term for that is “wood killer.”
The lethargy that accompanies being high on cannabis: couch lock.
A recent one is “Ozympic face” for the effects of drastic weight loss on one’s face.
Taint-Rot. That thing where the area between the Anus and Junk goes bad. Seems to be a thing with all these new medications.
I’d rather have the fuckin’ desease!
I have heard of “crotch rot”, aka “jock itch”.
Mahler’s Drinking Song, quite strikingly, had
Seht dort hinab! Im Mondschein auf den Gräbern
hockt eine wildgespenstische Gestalt -
Ein Affe ist es! Hört ihr, wie sein Heulen hinausgellt
in den süßen Duft des Lebens!
But, allegedly, this is all translated from Chinese…
Back in St. Louis long ago, I knew this guy. The dad in his family looked exactly like Fred MacMurray. He had three sons. So the friends I hung out with had readymade names for various levels of being stoned. Ernie was the least, then Chip, Robbie, and Mike. “Fred MacMurray” meant you were extremely stoned. “Uncle Charlie” covered everything between unconsciousness and death. The theoretical next level was “Salvador Dalí.”
In Italian, one way to say stoned is stonato, which literally means out of tune. It has no relation to the word stoned, but the chance resemblance was enough for it to catch on. The way to say “baked” is fatto, literally ‘done’.