What Are Some Slang Names For Recreational Drugs?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I was reading a book about the Carpenters and they were saying how Richard especially but even Karen took drugs.

They used names of some of these drugs and I had to look them up.

I could kind of figure out that

Barbies = barbituates

Bennies = Benzedrine

Tuinal = Christmas trees

So I was wondering what other slang or street names for recreational drugs there are.

I know roofies = Rohypnol

I don’t know too much. Also if you name then, and they aren’t obvious, can you say why they are nicknames as such.

Obviously Barbies and Bennies are just shortned names of the long form of the drug.

But I think Christmas trees for Tuinal is stretching it a bit. I mean does this look l ike a Christmas tree?

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Meth = speed

Meth = crank

Cocaine = blow

Rohypnol = roofies

Marijuana = weed, pot,

phencyclidine (PCP) = angel dust

Crystalized cocaine = crack

ETA: More thorough list:

http://www.casapalmera.com/articles/top-20-drugs-and-their-street-names/

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LSD = acid

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Mary Jane.

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Marijuana - 420, bud, green, grass, herb
Meth - Ice
Crack - Rock

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I think it’s very old: “Boo” for marijuana always cracked me up.

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Uppers-speed
Downers- depressants in general
Quaaludes- ludes

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Weirdly, the word ‘dope’ now means meth, ice, crank, or crack.
It used to mean marijuana. At least it did in my crowd back in college <grandpa simpson>way back in nineteen dickety doo</grandpa simpson>.

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Back in college a friend of mine and I used to snort (amongst other things) Dexedrine. When I had it all ready to go, I’d get her attention by sticking my head out of whatever room I was in and saying “Come On Eileen.” I thought it was clever since the band that sings that song is called Dexys Midnight Runners and Dexy sounded like Dexedrine. Found out years later that the name Dexys Midnight Runners was named for the drug Dexedrine…how appropriate.

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Heroin=horse

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Did anyone ever actually call it that? I saw it in drug scare pamphlets, but I never heard anyone call it that.

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Black Beauties (I loved those!) - Amphetamine
White Crosses - Amphetamine
Reds - Phenobarbital
Poppers - Amyl Nitrite
Reds - Seconal (also very good)

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Psychedelic mushrooms: shrooms

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I just read about someone advertising on Craig’s List, wanting to “Meet up with Mary Jane”. :rolleyes:

Cops got her.

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Yeah, my daughter lectured me on this. “Don’t say ‘smoking dope,’ Mama, it doesn’t mean what you think it means.”

We used to call LSD “Uncle Sid,” as in “Hey, you seen Uncle Sid lately?” “I partied with Uncle Sid last weekend.”

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Here are a few names for marijuana, courtesy of Ali G: - YouTube

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Charlie Sheen (not sure - probably cocaine?)

bingle - nothing, but it would be a good slang drug name

Elmer Fudd - dilaudid

Whazz - mushrooms in a hash

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I know a woman who wrote that somebody ‘used her ass a surface for doing molly’. I suspect this is a drug reference but keep forgetting to ask.

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Well right now I’m hopped up on goofballs…

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Cops are reading Craigslist looking for people who are trying to buy pot? Just when I thought my opinion of law enforcement couldn’t sink any lower.