I live in new york and see junkies all around what is what. What are the characteristics of a Junkie.
Crackhead: Someone whow would saw the tops off sparkplugs and use the porcelain tubes to smoke crack.
Dope Fiend: Anyone with over 5,000 posts.
A Crack Head is a Dope Fiend, but a Dope Fiend is not always a Crack Head.
A crack head loves the uppers, mainly, uh… crack cocaine, and uses it to stay alert and “up”. They’re jittery, if not high, they could be “spun”. If they tell you that they have some cheeseburgers, run.
A dope fiend will usually smoke some pot. If there is no pot, they’ll settle for something else. Maybe some Xanax. No Xanax you say? They’ll settle for some vicodin. Maybe some ritalin. Mix it with some alcohol, maybe dabble with some X.
Yeah, that’s what I thought upon reading the OP too.
When did dope go from being slang for weed to being slang for heroin?
[small hi-jack and one I probably shouldn’t admit to]
My first day lurking the board I opened a thread entitled “Florida Dopefest” or something similar. People were discussing meeting up for a Dopefest, maybe at someone’s house, maybe at a hotel; the usual stuff.
My very fist post ever to this board was going to be to ask how they could arrange a “Dopefest” on a message board like this? Wouldn’t the cops just be waiting at the agreed upon place to bust them once the Doping commenced?
That’s when one brain cell nudge the other and said, “Pppppssssst! Straight Dope. Dopefest. Somebody stop her!”
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Unless that’s a Menace II Society reference, I don’t get it.
Sorry, no cite, because this is from books I read many years ago. However, “dope” was always slang for heroin, and to a lesser extent cocaine, though that might not seem like a “dopey” drug. Saying “dope” for marijuana, according to my reading, started among middle class, mostly white, young pot smokers in the 1960s, as marijuana moved out of the limited world of jazz musicians and “beatniks”, and went mainstream.
The hip jazzers and others acquainted with marijuana, before then, never called it “dope”, because they knew what real dope was, and what it could do. Instead they called it “reefer”, or “herb”, or “tea” for example. If you hear an allusion to dope in an old song, they mean heroin, or possibly cocaine.
Merely MHO and not scientific in any way: a “dope fiend” (opiate abuser) is much, much less irritating than a “crack head” (crack cocaine abuser). Given the choice of having to deal with one or the other, give me the guy on dope any day.
Also, FWIW: although “dope” refers generically to heroin, marijuana, and all drugs in general, reference to “dope” and “dope fiends” on the street is often understood to refer specifically to heroin unless it is clear from the context that the speaker means marijuana or something else.
Well of course, a heroin addict spends half their time nodding while the crackhead spends half their time jonesing for their next hit, bugging you the whole time.
Exactly. It’s also a matter of whether you’d rather replace your kitchen spoons or your car antenna (a joke, of course, I don’t let either know my home address.)
Just felt the need to post this in this thread. 
Then take my husband, please!
j/k (about the dope thing that is; you really can have him!)
After smoking weed, one runs to the corner to suck down some Taco Bell.
After smoking crack, one runs to the corner to suck some dick to buy more crack.
I think that about sums it up.
It was.
Okay then! (And I “love” how O-Dog took the cheeseburgers anyway; can’t waste food!)