# What Are Some Slang Names For Recreational Drugs?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 2, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638 "2011-11-02T16:00:55Z")
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/21 "2011-11-03T03:57:04Z")
> [@TheChileanBlob](#):
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> We used to call LSD “Uncle Sid,” as in “Hey, you seen Uncle Sid lately?” “I partied with Uncle Sid last weekend.”
When taken at a musical festival or concert, we always asked if anyone wanted to “Go Dancing With Lucy” for the evening.
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/22 "2011-11-03T03:59:11Z")
> [@DocCathode](#):
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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.
Molly is slang for Ecstasy.
I guess you could snort some (or a lot) off of someone’s bare ass, especially if you know the Kardashian girls.
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### Author:  [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/23 "2011-11-03T04:00:03Z")
A “lid” referred to a baggie (couple fingers) of pot (which could be had in my day for about 10-20 bucks). Ragweed was low quality pot.
Snow was cocaine.
Like grandpa Simpson up there, this was in the coughcough70sahem. 😃
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### Author:  [@notthatagain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notthatagain)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/24 "2011-11-03T04:33:18Z")
From a TV news story about a police operation targeting drug users advertising on Craigslist (“Snow Bunny wanted for weekend encounter”) I learned that “Tina” is a popular slang for crystal meth.
In the 70’s pot was “bud”, “smoke”, “weed” or sometimes “bo” referring to Colombian - consume it in the popular manner and you were “smokin’ dope”. I’ve _never_ heard anybody call it “Mary Jane” either.
For reasons I don’t understand heroin is called “blow”.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/25 "2011-11-03T14:18:20Z")
> [@FauxExample](#):
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> For reasons I don’t understand heroin is called “blow”.
It isn’t.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/26 "2011-11-03T15:18:01Z")
MDMA (Ecstasy) = X or XTC. I’ve heard Ravers, Candy or Vitamin E too, but there’s a metric ton of slang for these things.
Any opiate in pill form = Happy pills.
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### Author:  [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/27 "2011-11-03T15:45:40Z")
Purple Drank / Sizzurp = cough syrup (codeine and promethazine), mountain dew, and jolly rancher candies.
Although there are loads of names for Ecstasy, in my younger days the most popular form of E was Mitsubishis, or 'Bishis. Before that Doves were the most iconic “brand”.
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/28 "2011-11-03T16:18:58Z")
Liquid Spasma = meth powdered into a slurpee
a gorgon = inhaling nitrites sprayed onto braided hair
smollycarb = injecting mescaline solution into the urethra
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### Author:  [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/29 "2011-11-03T16:26:35Z")
My favorite: _goofballs_ for barbituates.
“These damn kids today are all hopped up on goofballs!”
I love some of the fanciful names for the various varietals of marijuana. “Bolivian Mellow Master”, “Nanaimo Dreamleaf”, “Huntington Ditchweed”, “Johannesburg Flying Carpet Ride Ticket”, etc.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/30 "2011-11-03T16:28:15Z")
> [@elmwood](#):
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> I love some of the fanciful names for the various varietals of marijuana. “Bolivian Mellow Master”, “Nanaimo Dreamleaf”, “Huntington Ditchweed”, “Johannesburg Flying Carpet Ride Ticket”, etc.
Don’t forget “Matanuska Thunderfuck”
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### Author:  [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/31 "2011-11-03T16:38:27Z")
Ones that I’m familiar with:
Clarky-Cat
Triple-sod
Yellow Bentines
Cake (which is a metabolically bisturbile drug, some of you may be familiar with it) has a rich history of nicknames itself including:
loonytoad quack
Joss Ackland’s spunky backpack
ponce on the heath
rustledust
Hattie Jacques pretentious cheese wog
[more info here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbq3kc29Tmg), but language is NSFW
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### Author:  [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/32 "2011-11-03T18:22:56Z")
Terms for marijuana:
Mary Jane, ganja, buddha, leaf, mj, wacky tobaccy, “tobacco” (hush hush), bud, hemp, weed, grass
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### Author:  [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/33 "2011-11-03T18:26:33Z")
Cigarettes: smokes, cancer sticks, lung darts, lung candy
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/34 "2011-11-03T18:59:28Z")
piskatchatoon - fermented beaver juice
mandowee - red velvet marijuana cupcake
clanch - Quaalude chased with a diuretic
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### Author:  [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/35 "2011-11-03T19:09:10Z")
MJ, kind, dank, herb,elf lettuce, nugs, supakind, grass, reefer
Meth: ice, crystal, crank, candy
Coke, blow, nose candy, Bolivian matching powder, lines, rails, snow
Shrooms, boomers, fungus, bluestems
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/36 "2011-11-03T22:17:28Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#):
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> Molly is slang for Ecstasy.
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> I guess you could snort some (or a lot) off of someone’s bare ass, especially if you know the Kardashian girls.
Ah, thank you.
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/37 "2011-11-03T23:14:03Z")
"_That’s that shit!"_-Heroin, again.
[Urban Dictionary: thats that shit](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=that%27s%20that%20shit&defid=2160830) (for doubters)
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### Author:  [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/38 "2011-11-03T23:17:23Z")
Heroin: Garbage
Pot: Hoop
Cocaine: Bump
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### Author:  [@notthatagain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notthatagain)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2011, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/39 "2011-11-04T06:34:56Z")
> [@FauxExample](#):
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> For reasons I don’t understand heroin is called “blow”.
> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> It isn’t.
Yes it is.
[Bluelight](http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/archive/index.php/t-253259.html)
[MetaFilter](http://ask.metafilter.com/140216/everywhere-else-its-coke)
[No Slang.com Drug Slang Translator](http://www.noslang.com/drugs/dictionary/b/)
It appears to be regional slang (Detroit & Chicago). The links refer to “blows”, but when I was a cab driver (on the overnight shift) in Detroit I only heard people call it “blow”.
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### Author:  [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-slang-names-for-recreational-drugs/601638/40 "2011-11-04T06:43:49Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> Don’t forget “Matanuska Thunderfuck”
Funny story about that. When we were kids we called it that ironically, because it was the purest crappy ragweed. (Was raised in Anchorage, spent 40years in AK, up until the end of 2010)
Apparently that’s no longer true. I don’t know, having been out of the loop for several decades, but I guess it’s now got some of the highest THC content in the world.
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