Drug Slang and Other Signs Your Loved One May Be Abusing Drugs
Are you concerned a loved one is using drugs? Contemplating this notion can be a scary and isolating experience. You’re worried. You’re wondering what you can do about your suspicions. You want to find out what your loved one is up to. We’re here to help. Start by understanding drug slang so you’re not oblivious to what could be happening right under your nose. If you do find your loved one is struggling with addiction, it is cruical you reach out and seek professional help like the kind we offer here at our drug addiction rehab program.
8 Signs Your Loved One Is Doing Drugs
Once you’ve familiarized yourself with drug slang names, keep an eye out for other signs of drug addiction. Pay attention to your loved one’s behavior and how they interact with others. Here are some additional signs that drug use might be taking place:
- Difference in sleep patterns
- Secretive behavior
- Drop in grades at school
- Problems at work
- Less attention to personal hygiene
- Weight gain or loss
- Appetite changes
- Greater irritability
What Should You Do If You Suspect Drug Use?
Once you’re certain your loved one is struggling with drug addiction, be cautious with your next move. While you may want to confront them right away, that’s usually not the best thing to do. They’re likely to deny they have a problem and it could lead to a heated argument or confrontation when a delicate approach is required.
Help is available 24/7 call this number for a free personal consultation for yourself or a loved one 800-338-5770. Our owners and most of our staff are both certified professionals and recovering addicts who teach and demonstrate a life of recovery. We can provide you with the best actions to take so you can get your loved one the help they need. We’ll walk through different scenarios with you so you have a better idea of what to say and how to respond to some of the things your loved one might say.
Our specialists can also help you and your other family members deal with personal feelings about your loved one’s drug usage. You might feel guilty or angry. If that’s the case, you need to know how to handle these feelings so they don’t sabotage your loved one’s recovery or become toxic to others.
If you suspect your loved one is using drug slang and exhibiting signs of addiction, the compassionate staff of 12 Keys Florida is here to help. Contact us for the next step and help your loved one begin a new life of recovery today. Help is available 24/7 call this number for a free personal consultation 800-338-5770.
If you pick up on these signs early, you may be able to intervene and get your loved one help before the situation gets out-of-hand. Ask other relatives and friends if they notice a change in your loved one’s behavior. They may see what you see and confirm your suspicions.
What Is Drug Slang?
Drug slang is a way of talking about drugs and related items that don’t use the actual name of the object being discussed. For instance, marijuana is sometimes called Mary Jane. Most of us have heard that one. But did you know it’s also called Manhattan silver or Poke? Explore the page to see our extensive glossary of drug slang names.
Because drug slang changes so quickly, you may not recognize it when you hear it. That’s why we provide a running list of known drug terms. We do our best to keep this list as up-to-date and relevant as possible. It’s by no means exhaustive but it is a good reference for recognizing drug addict slang.
Pay attention to the words your loved one uses when talking to friends. Listen for words in our list to help confirm any suspected involvement with drugs.
It’s also important to note that your loved one could be abusing legal prescription drugs rather than street drugs or illegal narcotics. For this reason, you should monitor the prescription medications in your home to be sure no pills are missing. You may want to keep prescription meds locked in a case so they can’t be accessed without your permission.
If you’re concerned about things your loved one has said, contact 12 Keys in Florida today for help with the next step. Our approach is compassionate, discreet and respectful. We’ve been in your loved one’s shoes and we know what it takes to successfully help them along the path to recovery.
A – LSD; amphetamine
A-bomb – marijuana and heroin smoked in cigarette
Ace – marijuana cigarette
Adam and Eve – MDMA and MDEA combo
A-head – frequent amphetamine user
A la canona – abrupt (cold turkey) withdrawal from heroin
Amped (verb) – stimulated by drugs, especially cocaine or amphetamine
Amys – Amytal (amobarbital sodium)
Ant – small-time drug dealer
Anywhere – holding or possessing drugs
Assassin of Youth – marijuana (from 1930’s film of same name)
Abe – $5 worth of drugs
Abe’s cabe – $5 bill
Abolic – veterinary steroid
Acapulco gold – marijuana from S.W. Mexico
Acapulco red – marijuana
Ace – marijuana; PCP
Acid – LSD
Acid head – LSD user
AD – PCP
Adam – MDMA
African woodbine – marijuana cigarette
Agonies – withdrawal symptoms
Ah-pen-yen – opium
Aimies – amphetamine; amyl nitrite
AIP – heroin from Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan
Air blast – inhalant
Airplane – marijuana
Alice B. Toklas – marijuana brownie
All lit up – under the influence of drugs
All-star – user of multiple drugs
All-American drug – cocaine
Alpha-ET – alpha-ethyltyptamine
Ames – amyl nitrite
Amidone – methadone
Amoeba – PCP
Amp – amphetamine
Amp joint – marijuana cigarette laced with some form of narcotic
Amped-out – fatigue after using amphetamines
Amping – accelerated heartbeat
AMT – dimethyltryptamine
Amys – amyl nitrate
Anadrol – oral steroid
Anatrofin – injectable steroid
Anavar – oral steroid
Angel – PCP
Angel dust – PCP
Angel hair – PCP
Angel mist – PCP
Angel Poke – PCP
Angie – cocaine
Angola – marijuana
Animal – LSD
Animal trank – PCP
Animal tranquilizer – PCP
Antifreeze – heroin
Apache – fentanyl
Apple jacks – crack
Aries – heroin
Aroma of men – isobutyl nitrite
Artillery – equipment for injecting drugs
Ashes – marijuana
Atom bomb – marijuana and heroin
Aunt Hazel – heroin
Aunt Mary – marijuana
Aunt Nora – cocaine
Aunti – opium
Aunti Emma – opium
Aurora borealis – PCP
B – Amount of marijuana to fill a matchbox
Baby – minor heroin habit
Back off – injecting drug partially into a vein, then withdrawing blood into syringe before reinjection
Bad pizza – PCP
Bah-say – freebase cocaine; cocaine paste (basuco)
Bammy – marijuana
Banano – marijuana or tobacco cigarettes laced with cocaine
Banker – drug financier who assumes little risk of arrest
Barbs – barbiturates
Base – freebase cocaine
Base house – place for smoking freebase cocaine or crack
Base pipe – pipe for smoking freebase cocaine or crack
Baseball – freebase cocaine
Baseballing – smoking freebase cocaine
Basuco – coca paste (barely refined cocaine with adulterants)
Bazooka – coca paste and marijuana
B-bomb [1940s] – Benzedrine inhaler
Beam me up Scottie – taking an additional dose of cocaine
Belly habit – heroin addiction resulting in stomach symptoms
Bennies – Benzedrine (amphetamine sulfate)
Benny and the Jets – Benzedrine (amphetamine sulfate)
Bent – intoxicated on narcotic or psychedelic
Benz – Benzedrine (amphetamine sulfate)
Big Chief – mescaline
Biz – injection paraphernalia (as in business)
Black beauties – Biphetamine (amphetamine/dextroamphetamine) capsules
Black Russian – very potent hashish
Black stuff – black tar opium
Black tar heroin – potent heroin from Mexico with adulterants
Black tar opium – tar-like opium for smoking
Blockbuster – 50mg Nembutal (pentobarbital) capsules
Blow – snorting a drug
Blow a fill – smoke opium
Blow a stick – smoke marijuana
Blow your mind – become intoxicated on a psychedelic drug
Blowout – a party at which alcohol/drugs are used in excess
Blue birds – Amytal (amobarbital sodium) capsules
Blues – Amytal (amobarbital sodium) [blue-colored capsule]
Blue and clears – Fastin (phentermine) (blue and clear capsule filled with blue and white balls) capsule
Blues and reds – Amytal (amobarbital) and Seconal (secobarbital) capsules; barbiturates
Blue blood – one who injects drugs intravenously
Blue heavens – Amytal (amobarbital)
Blue star – a type of blotter LSD
Blue tabs – LSD
Blue velvet – combination of elixir terpin hydrate with codeine and tripelennamine (as weak heroin substitute)
Blue velvet – combination of paregoric and PBZ (pyribenzamine or tripelennamine) used as a weak heroin substitute
Body packing – smuggling or hiding drugs inside body cavities
Bombita – Desoxyn (methamphetamine) in solution for injection
Boogie – to travel for the purpose of smuggling drugs
Booting – injecting drug partially into a vein, then withdrawing blood into syringe before reinjection
Brody – to fake an illness to obtain a prescription
Brownies – amphetamines, especially Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) Spansules (brown capsule)
Brown and clears – Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine) Spansules (brown and clear capsules filled with white and brown beads)
Budda – potent marijuana spiked with opium
Buddha – potent marijuana spiked with opium
Burn – to sell fake drugs or to take money without delivering a drug during a sale
Burn – to report a drug user or dealer to the police
Business – injection paraphernalia
Buzz – slight or mild intoxication
Buzz bomb – device for inhaling nitrous oxide from small canisters
B-40 – cigar laced with marijuana and dipped in malt liquor
B.J.’s – crack
Babe – drug used for detoxification
Baby – marijuana
Baby bhang – marijuana
Baby habit – occasional use of drugs
Babysit – guide someone through first drug experience
Baby T – crack
Backbreakers – LSD and strychnine
Back door – residue left in a pipe
Backjack – injecting opium
Back to back – smoking crack after injecting heroin or heroin used after smoking crack
Backtrack – allow blood to flow back into a needle during injection
Backup – prepare vein for injection
Backwards – depressant
Bad bundle – inferior quality heroin
Bad – crack
Bad go – bad reaction to a drug
Bad seed – peyote; heroin; marijuana
Bag – container for drugs
Bag bride – crack-smoking prostitute
Bag man – person who transports money
Bagging – using inhalant
Bale – marijuana
Ball – crack
Balloon – heroin supplier
Ballot – heroin
Bambs – depressant
Bang – to inject a drug; inhalant
Bank bandit pills – depressant
Bar – marijuana
Barb – depressant
Barbies – depressant
Barbs – cocaine
Barrels – LSD
Base – cocaine; crack
Baseball – crack
Bash – marijuana
Basuco – cocaine; coca paste residue sprinkled on marijuana or regular cigarette
Bathtub speed – methcathinone
Batt – IV needle
Battery acid – LSD
Batu – smokable methamphetamine
Bazooka – cocaine; crack
Bazulco – cocaine
Beam me up Scottie – crack dipped in PCP
Beans – amphetamine; depressant; mescaline
Beast – LSD
Beat artist – person selling bogus drugs
Beat vials – vials containing sham crack to cheat buyers
Beautiful boulders – crack
Bebe – crack
Behind the scale – to weigh and sell cocaine
Beiging – chemicals altering cocaine to make it appear a higher purity
Belladonna – PCP
Belushi – cocaine and heroin
Belyando spruce – marijuana
Bender – drug party
Bennie – amphetamine
Benz – amphetamine
Bernice – cocaine
Bernie – cocaine
Bernie’s flakes – cocaine
Bernie’s gold dust – cocaine
Bhang – marijuana, Indian term
Big bag – heroin
Big bloke – cocaine
Big C – cocaine
Big 8 – 1/8 kilogram of crack
Big Harry – heroin
Big flake – cocaine
Big man – drug supplier
Big rush – cocaine
Bill Blass – crack
Billie hoke – cocaine
Bindle – small packet of drug powder; heroin
Bing – enough of a drug for one injection
Bingers – crack addicts
Bingo – to inject a drug
Bings – crack
Birdie powder – heroin; cocaine
Biscuit – 50 rocks of crack
Bite one’s lips – to smoke marijuana
Biz – bag or portion of drugs
Black acid – LSD; LSD and PCP
Black and white – amphetamine
Black birds – amphetamine
Black bombers – amphetamine
Black ganga – marijuana resin
Black gold – high potency marijuana
Black gungi – marijuana from India
Black gunion – marijuana
Black hash – opium and hashish
Black mo/black moat – highly potent marijuana
Black mollies – amphetamine
Black mote – marijuana mixed with honey
Black pearl – heroin
Black rock – crack
Black star – LSD
Black sunshine – LSD
Black tabs – LSD
Black tar – heroin
Blacks – amphetamine
Blanco – heroin
Blanket – marijuana cigarette
Blanks – low quality drugs
Blast – to smoke marijuana; to smoke crack
Blast a joint – to smoke marijuana
Blast a roach – to smoke marijuana
Blast a stick – to smoke marijuana
Blasted – under the influence of drugs
Blizzard – white cloud in a pipe used to smoke cocaine
Block – marijuana
Block busters – depressant
Blonde – marijuana
Blotter – LSD; cocaine
Blotter acid – LSD
Blow – cocaine; to inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana
Blow a fix – injection misses the vein and is wasted in the skin
blow a shot – injection misses the vein and is wasted in the skin
blow the vein – injection misses the vein and is wasted in the skin
Blow a stick – to smoke marijuana
Blow blue – to inhale cocaine
Blowcaine – crack diluted with cocaine
Blow coke – to inhale cocaine
Blow one’s roof – to smoke marijuana
Blow smoke – to inhale cocaine
Blowing smoke – marijuana
Blowout – crack
Blow up – crack cut with lidocaine to increase size, weight, and street value
Blue – depressant; crack
Blue acid – LSD
Blue angels – depressant
Blue barrels – LSD
Blue birds – depressant
Blue boy – amphetamine
Blue bullets – depressant
Blue caps – mescaline
Blue chairs – LSD
Blue de hue – marijuana from Vietnam
Blue devil – depressant
Blue dolls – depressant
Blue heaven – LSD
Blue heavens – depressant
Blue sage – marijuana
Blue sky blond – high potency marijuana from Colombia
Blue tips – depressant
Blue vials – LSD
Blunt – marijuana inside a cigar; marijuana and cocaine inside a cigar
Bo-bo – marijuana
Boat – PCP
Bobo – crack
Bobo bush – marijuana
Body packer – person who ingests crack or cocaine to transport it
Body stuffer – person who ingests crack vials to avoid prosecution
Bogart a joint – salivate on a marijuana cigarette; refuse to share
Bohd – marijuana; PCP
Bolasterone – injectable steroid
Bolivian marching powder – cocaine
Bolo – crack
Bomb – crack; heroin; large marijuana cigarette; high potency heroin
Bomb squad – crack-selling crew
Bomber – marijuana cigarette
Bombido – injectable amphetamine; heroin; depressant
Bombita – amphetamine; heroin; depressant
Bombs away – heroin
Bone – marijuana; $50 piece of crack
Bonecrusher – crack
Bones – crack
Bong – pipe used to smoke marijuana
Bonita – heroin
Boo – marijuana
Boom – marijuana
Boost – to inject a drug; to steal
Boost and shoot – steal to support a habit
Booster – to inhale cocaine
Boot – to inject a drug
Boot the gong – to smoke marijuana
Boppers – amyl nitrite
Botray – crack
Bottles – crack vials; amphetamine
Boubou – crack
Boulder – crack; $20 worth of crack
Boulya – crack
Bouncing powder – cocaine
Boxed – in jail
Brain ticklers – amphetamine
Breakdowns – $40 crack rock sold for $20
Break night – staying up all night until day break
Brewery – place where drugs are made
Brick – 1 kilogram of marijuana; crack
Bridge up or bring up – ready a vein for injection
Broccoli – marijuana
Broker – go-between in a drug deal
Brown – heroin; marijuana
Brown crystal – heroin
Brown sugar – heroin
Brownies – amphetamine
Browns – amphetamine
Bubble gum – cocaine; crack
Bud – marijuana
Buda – a high-grade marijuana joint filled with crack
Bugged – annoyed; to be covered with sores and abscesses from repeated use of unsterile needles
Bull – narcotics agent or police officer
Bullet bolt – inhalant
Bullia capital – crack
Bullion – crack
Bullyon – marijuana
Bumblebees – amphetamine
Bummer trip – unsettling and threatening experience from PCP intoxication
Bump – crack; fake crack; boost a high; hit of ketamine ($20)
Bunk – fake cocaine
Burese – cocaine
Burn one – to smoke marijuana
Burn the main line – to inject a drug
Burned – purchase fake drugs
Burned out – collapse of veins from repeated injections; permanent impairment from drug abuse
Burnese – cocaine
Burnie – marijuana
Burnout – heavy abuser of drugs
Bush – cocaine; marijuana
Businessman’s LSD – dimethyltryptamine
Businessman’s trip – dimethyltryptamine
Businessman’s special – dimethyltryptamine
Busted – arrested
Busters – depressant
Butter – marijuana; crack
Butter flower – marijuana
Buttons – mescaline
C – cocaine
Cactus head – user of peyote
Candy – illegal drugs (in general)
Candy man – drug pusher
Candycaine – cocaine
Candy cane – cocaine
Caps – capsules, pills in general
Captain Cody – codeine
Cat’s pee – crack cocaine
Champagne of drugs – cocaine hydrochloride
Chasing the dragon – inhaling vapors of heroin or cocaine heated on tin foil
Cheroot – smoking cigar-shaped object (tobacco or marijuana or mixture)
Chicken sh*t habit – small heroin habit, usually not addicted
Chillums – marijuana
China white – very pure form of heroin, alternately a fentanyl analog used as a heroin substitute
Chipping – occasional use of narcotics so infrequently as to avoid addiction
Chips – tobacco or marijuana cigarettes laced with PCP
Chocolate – hashish
Christmas trees – Dexamyl (dextroamphetamine and amobarbital combo) (green and clear capsules with white balls inside)
CIBAs – Doriden (glutethimide)
Coke bugs – tactile hallucination after using cocaine which creates the illusion of bugs burrowing under the skin
Colas [Spanish=tails] – marijuana flowing tops
Cold bust – unplanned arrest for drugs after a police stop for another crime
Contraband chemist – who makes or prepares drugs
Co-pilot – sober companion for one who is intoxicated, especially on LSD
Cotton fever – septicemia caused by injecting small amounts of cotton fibers with the drugs
Cotton habit – infrequent use of narcotics
Cotton shooter – desperate addict who injects the residue from cotton used to filter heroin
Crack house – place where crack cocaine is sold and smoked
Crack pipe – pipe for smoking crack cocaine
Crackers – crack cocaine
Cracking – gesturing as if cracking a whip, as a means of advertising crack for sale
Crank bugs – tactile hallucination after using stimulants which creates the illusion of bugs burrowing under the skin
Cream and crimsons – Dalmane (a red and white sleeping pill capsule)
Cjoint – place where cocaine is sold
C & M – cocaine and morphine
C-dust – cocaine
C-game – cocaine
Caballo – heroin
Cabello – cocaine
Cactus – mescaline
Cactus buttons – mescaline
Cad/Cadillac – 1 ounce
Cadillac – PCP
Cadillac express – methcathinone
Cakes – round discs of crack
Caine – cocaine; crack
California cornflakes – cocaine
California sunshine – LSD
Cam trip – high potency marijuana
Cambodian red/Cam red – marijuana from Cambodia
Can – marijuana; 1 ounce
Canadian black – marijuana
Canamo – marijuana
Canappa – marijuana
Cancelled stick – marijuana cigarette
Candy – cocaine; crack; depressant; amphetamine
Candy C – cocaine
Cannabinol – PCP
Cap – crack; LSD
Caps – crack
Cap up – transfer bulk form drugs to capsules
Capital H – heroin
Caps – heroin; psilocybin/psilocin
Carburetor – crack stem attachment
Carga – heroin
Carmabis – marijuana
Carne – heroin
Carnie – cocaine
Carrie – cocaine
Carrie Nation – cocaine
Cartucho – package of marijuana cigarettes
Cartwheels – amphetamine
Casper the ghost – crack
Cat – methcathinone
Cat valium – ketamine
Catnip – marijuana cigarette
Caviar – crack
Cavite all star – marijuana
Cecil – cocaine
Chalk – methamphetamine; amphetamine
Chalked up – under the influence of cocaine
Chalking – chemically altering the color of cocaine so it looks white
Chandoo/chandu – opium
Channel – vein into which a drug is injected
Channel swimmer – one who injects heroin
Charas – marijuana from India
Charge – marijuana
Charged up – under the influence of drugs –
Charley – heroin
Charlie – cocaine
Chase – to smoke cocaine; to smoke marijuana
Chaser – compulsive crack user
Chasing the dragon – crack and heroin
Chasing the tiger – to smoke heroin
Cheap basing – crack
Check – personal supply of drugs
Cheeba – marijuana
Cheeo – marijuana
Chemical – crack
Chewies – crack
Chiba chiba – high potency marijuana from Colombia
Chicago green – marijuana
Chicken powder – amphetamine
Chicken scratch – searching on hands and knees for crack
Chief – LSD; mescaline
Chieva – heroin
China cat – high potency heroin
China town – fentanyl
China White – fentanyl
Chinese molasses – opium
Chinese tobacco – opium
Chipper – occasional Hispanic user
Chipping – using drugs occasionally
Chippy – cocaine
Chira – marijuana
Chocolate – opium; amphetamine
Chocolate chips – LSD
Chocolate ecstasy – crack made brown by adding chocolate milk powder during production
Cholly – cocaine
Chorals – depressant
Christina – amphetamine
Christmas rolls – depressant
Christmas tree – marijuana; depressant; amphetamine
Chronic – marijuana; marijuana mixed with crack
Chucks – hunger following withdrawal from heroin
Churus – marijuana
Cigarette paper – packet of heroin
Cigarrode cristal – PCP
Citrol – high potency marijuana, from Nepal
Clear up – stop drug use
Clicker – crack and PCP
Cliffhanger – PCP
Climax – crack; isobutyl nitrite; heroin
Climb – marijuana cigarette
Clips – rows of vials heat-sealed together
Clocking paper – profits from selling drugs
Closet baser – user of crack who prefers anonymity
Cloud – crack
Cloud nine – crack
Cluck – crack smoker
Co-pilot – amphetamine
Coasting – under the influence of drugs
Coasts to coasts – amphetamine
Coca – cocaine
Cocaine blues – depression after extended cocaine use
Cochornis – marijuana
Cocktail – cigarette laced with cocaine or crack; partially smoked marijuana cigarette inserted in regular cigarette
Cocoa puff – to smoke cocaine and marijuana
Coconut – cocaine
Coco rocks – dark brown crack made by adding chocolate pudding during production
Coco snow – benzocaine used as cutting agent for crack
Cod – large amount of money
Coke – cocaine; crack
Coke bar – bar where cocaine is openly used
Cola – cocaine
Cold turkey – sudden withdrawal from drugs
Coli – marijuana
Coliflor tostao – marijuana
Colorado cocktail – marijuana
Colombian – marijuana
Columbus black – marijuana
Comeback – benzocaine and mannitol used to adulterate cocaine for conversion to crack
Come home – end a trip; from LSD
Connect – purchase drugs; supplier of illegal drugs
Contact lens – LSD
Cook – mix heroin with water; heating heroin to prepare it for injection
Cook down – process in which users liquefy heroin in order to inhale it
Cooker – to inject a drug
Cookies – crack
Coolie – cigarette laced with cocaine
Cooler – cigarette laced with a drug
Cop – obtain drugs
Copping zones – specific areas where buyers can purchase drugs
Coral – depressant
Coriander seeds – cash
Cork the air – to inhale cocaine
Corrinne – cocaine
Cosa – marijuana
Courage pills – heroin; depressant
Course note – bill larger than $2
Crack – cocaine
Crack attack – craving for crack
Crack back – crack and marijuana
Crack cooler – crack soaked in wine cooler
Cracker jacks – crack smokers
Crackers – LSD
Crack gallery – place where crack is bought and sold
Crack spot – area where people can purchase crack
Crank – methamphetamine; amphetamine; methcathinone
Cranking up – to inject a drug
Crap/crop – low quality heroin
Crash – sleep off effects of drugs
Crazy coke – PCP
Crazy Eddie – PCP
Crazy weed – marijuana
Credit card – crack stem
Crib – crack
Crimmie – cigarette laced with crack
Crink – methamphetamine
Cripple – marijuana cigarette
Cris – methamphetamine
Crisscross – amphetamine
Cristina – methamphetamine
Cristy – smokable methamphetamine
Croak – crack and methamphetamine
Cross tops – amphetamine
Crossroads – amphetamine
Crown crap – heroin
Crumbs – tiny pieces of crack
Crunch & Munch – crack
Cruz – opium from Veracruz, Mexico
Crying weed – marijuana
Crypto – methamphetamine
Crystal – methamphetamine; PCP; amphetamine; cocaine
Crystal joint – PCP
Crystal meth – methamphetamine
Cystal T – PCP
Crystal tea – LSD
Cubes – marijuana tablets
Culican – high potency marijuana from Mexico
Cupcakes – LSD
Cura – heroin
Cushion – vein into which a drug is injected
Cut – adulterate drugs
Dabble – use drugs occasionally
Daytime – high on drugs, especially heroin
Detox – detoxification
Dexies – Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine); Dexamyl (dextroamphetamine/amobarbital combo)
Dilaudid cowboys – person who scams physicians into prescribing Dilaudid (hydromorphone) by faking severe pain symptoms
Dillys – Dilaudid (hydromophone)
Dip and dab – experiment, especially with heroin
Dirty drop – drugs found in urine after drug test
Dirty urine – drugs found in urine after drug test
Disco biscuits – Quaalude (methaqualone)
Ditchweed – low potency marijuana that grows wild
Do up – inject a drug, especially heroin
Dollies – methadone (from the brand name Dolophine)
Doors and fours – Doriden (gluthethimide) and codeine
Double trouble – Tuinal (amobarbital/secobarbital combination)
Double trouble – Dexamyl (dextroamphetamine/amobarbital combination)
Down – under the influence of a depressant drug; depressant
Down – period of depression after �crashing�; when an intoxicating drug wears off
Down and dirtys – Quaalude (methaqualone)
Down and out – (after drug wears off) no longer high, drug supply is exhausted (out of drugs)
Drug store cowboy – person who steals drugs from pharmacies
Drying out – detoxification
Dusty roads – cocaine and PCP mixture for smoking
Dama blanca – cocaine
Dance fever – fentanyl
Dawamesk – marijuana
Dead on arrival – heroin
Deca-duabolin – injectable steroid
Deccadence – MDMA
Deck – 1 to 15 grams of heroin, also known as a bag; packet of drugs
Deeda – LSD
Delatestryl – injectable steroid
Demo – crack stem; a sample-size quantity of crack
Demolish – crack
Dep-testosterone – injectable steroid
DET – dimethyltryptamine
Devil’s dandruff – crack
Devilsmoke – crack
Dew – marijuana
Dexies – amphetamine
Diambista – marijuana
Dianabol – veterinary steroid
Diet pills – amphetamine
Dihydrolone – injectable steroid
Dimba – marijuana from West Africa
Dime – crack; $10 worth of crack
Dime bag – $10 worth of drugs
Dime’s worth – amount of heroin to cause death
Ding – marijuana
Dip – crack
Dipping out – crack runners taking a portion of crack from vials
Dirt grass – inferior quality marijuana
Dirty basing – crack
Disco biscuits – depressant
Disease – drug of choice
Ditch – marijuana
Ditch weed – marijuana inferior quality
Djamba – marijuana
DMT – Dimethyltryptamine
Do a joint – to smoke marijuana
Do a line – to inhale cocaine
Do it Jack – PCP
DOA – PCP; crack
Doctor – MDMA
Dollar – $100 worth of drugs
Dolls – depressant
Domestic – locally grown marijuana
Domex – PCP and MDMA
Dominoes – amphetamine
Don jem – marijuana
Dona Juana – marijuana
Doobie/dubbe/duby – marijuana
Dope – heroin; marijuana; any other drug
Dope fiend – crack addict
Dope smoke – to smoke marijuana
Doradilla – marijuana
Doub – $20 rock of crack
Double bubble – cocaine
Double cross – amphetamine
Double rock – crack diluted with procaine
Double trouble – depressant
Double ups – a $20 rock that can be broken into two $20 rocks
Double yoke – crack
Dove – $35 piece of crack
Downer – depressant
Downie – depressant
Draf weed – marijuana
Drag weed – marijuana
Draw up – to inject a drug
Dream – cocaine
Dream gum – opium
Dream stick – opium
Dreamer – morphine
Dreams – opium
Dropper – to inject a drug
Drowsy high – depressant
Dry high – marijuana
Duct – cocaine
Due – residue of oils trapped in a pipe after smoking base
Durabolin – injectable steroid
Durog – marijuana
Duros – marijuana
Dust – heroin; cocaine; PCP; marijuana mixed with various chemicals
Dust of angels – PCP
Dusted parsley – PCP
Dusting – adding PCP, heroin, or another drug to marijuana
Dymethzine – injectable steroid
Dynamite – heroin and cocaine
Earth – marijuana cigarette
Embroidery – scars left over veins from frequent injections
Evening – onset of heroin withdrawal (start of night time)
Ex – Ecstasy (MDMA)
Extasy – Ecstasy (MDMA)
Easing powder – opium
Eastside player – crack
Easy score – obtaining drugs easily
Eating – taking a drug orally
Ecstasy – MDMA
Egg – crack
Eight ball – 1/8 ounce of drugs
Eightball – crack and heroin
El diablito – marijuana, cocaine, heroin and PCP
El diablo – marijuana, cocaine and heroin
Electric Kool Aid – LSD
Elephant – PCP
Elephant tranquilizer – PCP
Embalming fluid – PCP
Emergency gun – instrument used to inject other than syringe
Endo – marijuana
Enoltestovis – injectable steroid
Ephedrone – methcathinone
Equipose – veterinary steroid
Esra – marijuana
Essence – MDMA
Estuffa – heroin
ET – alpha-ethyltyptamine
Eve – MDEA
Eye opener – crack; amphetamine
Factory – place where drugs are packaged, diluted, or manufactured
Fake STP – PCP
Feds – federal narcotics officers
Feenies – phenobarbital
Fiend – drug addict who lacks control
Finger – stick-shaped piece of hashish
Finger – condom filled with drugs and swallowed to facilitate drug smuggling
Fire up – smoke marijuana
Firing the ack ack gun – technique for smoking heroin by dipping tip of a tobacco cigarette in heroin (Asian slang)
Fit – paraphernalia for injecting drugs
Flaky – addicted to cocaine
Flash – glue (for sniffing)
Flashback – recurring hallucinations long after LSD use
Flashing – sniffing glue
Flip out – psychotic reaction after using a drug
Floating – high on a drug, especially heroin
Florida snow – look-alike cocaine
Fluff – filtering heroin or cocaine through cloth (often a stocking) to increase its apparent bulk
Fly agaric – amanita muscaria mushrooms
Flying saucers – variety of psychedelic morning glory seeds
Footballs – Diphetamine tablets
Footballs – Diaudid (hydromorphone) tablets
Four ways – LSD, methamphetamine, strychnine, and STP combo
Fours – Tylenol with Codeine No. 4, a prescription painkiller containing 60 mg. codeine plus acetominophen; or Empirin Compound with Codeine No. 4
Freak out – panic or psychotic reaction, particularly to LSD or another psychedelic
Free trips – psychedelic flashbacks
Freebee – psychedelic flashback
Freebee – inhaling freon
Full moon – large piece of peyote cactus
Funk – marijuana
Funny stuff – marijuana
Fuzz – police officer; narcotics officer
Fall – arrested
Fallbrook redhair – marijuana, term from Fallbrook, CA
Famous dimes – crack
Fantasia – dimethyltryptamine
Fat bags – crack
Fatty – marijuana cigarette
Feed bag – container for marijuana
Fiend – someone who smokes marijuana alone
Fifty-one – crack
Finajet/finaject – veterinary steroid
Fine stuff – marijuana
Finger – marijuana cigarette
Fir – marijuana
Fire – to inject a drug; crack and methamphetamine
Fire it up – to smoke marijuana
Fish scales – crack
Five cent bag – $5 worth of drugs
Five dollar bag – $50 worth of drugs
Fives – amphetamine
Fix – to inject a drug
Fizzies – methadone
Flag – appearance of blood in the vein
Flake – cocaine
Flakes – PCP
Flame cooking – smoking cocaine base by putting the pipe over a stove flame
Flamethrowers – cigarette laced with cocaine and heroin
Flash – LSD
Flat blues – LSD
Flat chunks – crack cut with benzocaine
Flea powder – low purity heroin
Florida snow – cocaine
Flower – marijuana
Flower tops – marijuana
Following that cloud – searching for drugs
Foo foo stuff – heroin; cocaine
Foo-foo dust – cocaine
Foolish powder – heroin; cocaine
Footballs – amphetamine
Forty-five Minute Psychosis – Dimethyltryptamine
Forwards – amphetamine
Fraho/frajo – marijuana
Freebase – smoking cocaine; crack
Freeze – cocaine; renege on a drug deal
French blue – amphetamine
French fries – crack
Friend – fentanyl
Fries – crack
Frios – marijuana laced with PCP
Frisco special – cocaine, heroin and LSD
Frisco speedball – cocaine, heroin and LSD
Friskie powder – cocaine
Fry – crack
Fu – marijuana
Fuel – marijuana mixed with insecticides; PCP
Fuma D’Angola – marijuana Portugese term
G – $1000; or 1 gram of drugs
Ganja – marijuana (term originated in India)
Garbage head – addict who will take anything to become intoxicated; one who is not particular about which drug s/he uses
Gas – nitrous oxide
G,B, – barbiturate (from �goofball�)
Gee – paregoric
Gee head – user of paregoric
Geronimo – alcoholic beverage (especially wine) mixed with a barbiturate sleeping pill
Get on – smoke marijuana
Get your own – cocaine
Ghanja – marijuana (see ganja)
Giggle weed – marijuana
G.I. gin – elixir of terpin hydrate with codeine
Goma – morphine
Goods – any drug, especially heroin
Good sick – nausea following heroin injection
Good stuff – high potency drug, especially marijuana
Goofball – barbiturate
Goofers – barbiturate
Goofing – intoxicated on barbiturates
Gorilla pills – barbiturate sleeping pills
Green and clears – Dexamyl (dextroamphetamine and amobarbital combo) (green and clear capsules with white balls inside)
Grefa – marijuana
Grifa – marijuana
Grievous bodily harm – GHB (gamma hydroxy butyric acid)
Groovy – intoxicated by a drug
Groovy lemon – yellow LSD tablet
Ground control – sober companion for one who is intoxicated, especially on LSD
Ground man – sober companion for one who is intoxicated, especially on LSD
Guide – experienced drug user who teaches novice users how to use drugs, especially LSD
Gunga – marijuana (see ganga)
Gungeon – potent Jamaican marijuana
Gunja – marijuana (see ganga)
Gunney – marijuana
Gunney sack – marijuana (from sacks made with hemp fiber)
Gutter – veins on inside of elbow where addict injects drugs
Gutter glitter – cocaine; drugs in general
G.B. – depressant
GHB – gamma hydroxy butyrate
G-rock – one gram of rock cocaine
G-shot – small dose of drugs used to hold off withdrawal symptoms until full dose can be taken
Gaffel – fake cocaine
Gaffus – hypodermic needle
Gage/gauge – marijuana
Gagers – methcathinone
Gaggers – methcathinone
Galloping horse – heroin
Gamot – heroin
Gange – marijuana
Ganja – marijuana from Jamaica
Gank – fake crack
Garbage – inferior quality drugs
Gash – marijuana
Gasper – marijuana cigarette
Gasper stick – marijuana cigarette
Gato – heroin
Geek – crack and marijuana
Geeker – crack user
Geeze – to inhale cocaine
Geezer – to inject a drug
Geezin a bit of dee gee – injecting a drug
George smack – heroin
Get a gage up – to smoke marijuana
Get a gift – obtain drugs
Get down – to inject a drug
Get high – to smoke marijuana
Get off – to inject a drug
Get the wind – to smoke marijuana
Get through – obtain drugs
Ghana – marijuana
Gick monster – crack smoker
Gift-of-the-sun – cocaine
Giggle smoke – marijuana
Gimmie – crack and marijuana
Gin – cocaine
Girl – cocaine; crack; heroin
Girlfriend – cocaine
Give wings – inject someone or teach someone to inject heroin
Glacines – heroin
Glad stuff – cocaine
Glading – using inhalant
Glass – hypodermic needle; amphetamine
Glass gun – hypodermic needle
Glo – crack
Go-fast – methcathinone
Go into a sewer – to inject a drug
Go loco – to smoke marijuana
Go on a sleigh ride – to inhale cocaine
Gold – marijuana; crack
Gold dust – cocaine
Gold star – marijuana
Golden Dragon – LSD
Golden leaf – very high quality marijuana
Golf ball – crack
Golf balls – depressant
Goma – opium; black tar heroin
Gondola – opium
Gong – marijuana; opium
Good and plenty – heroin
Good giggles – marijuana
Good go – proper amount of drugs for the money paid
Goodfellas – fentanyl
Goofball – cocaine and heroin; depressant
Goofers – depressant
Gopher – person paid to pickup drugs
Gorilla tab – PCP
Gorilla biscuits – PCP
Gorilla pills – depressant
Got it going on – fast sale of drugs
Graduate – completely stop using drugs or progress to stronger drugs
Gram – hashish
Grape parfait – LSD
Grass – marijuana
Grata – marijuana
Gravel – crack
Gravy – to inject a drug; heroin
Grease – currency
Great bear – fentanyl
Great tobacco – opium
Green – inferior quality marijuana; PCP; ketamine
Green dragons – depressant
Green frog – depressant
Green goddess – marijuana
Green gold – cocaine
Green goods – paper currency
Green leaves – PCP
Green tea – PCP
Greens/green stuff – paper currency
Greeter – marijuana
Greta – marijuana
Grit – crack
Groceries – crack
Ground control – guide or caretaker during a hallucinogenic experience
Guma – opium
Gun – to inject a drug; needle
Gungun – marijuana
Gutter – vein into which a drug is injected
Gutter junkie – addict who relies on others to obtain drugs
Gyve – marijuana cigarette
H & C – heroin and cocaine
H Caps – heroin
Haight, the – Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco, known as bohemian drug center in 1960’s through 1980’s
Haight-Ashbury – section of San Francisco known as a bohemian drug center in the 1960’s through 1980’s
Harry Jones – heroin
Hash – hashish
Hashbury – Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco, emphasis on hash(ish)
He-man – iso-butyl nitrite (brand name)
Head shop – drug paraphernalia store
Heads – frequent drug users
Heavenly Blue – variety of psychedelic morning glory seeds
Heavy stuff – heroin or cocaine
Hi speeds – amphetamines
High – intoxicated
High speed – amphetamines
Hit – a single dose of an illegal drug
Hit – a single puff on a marijuana cigarette; a single puff on a pipe (any drug)
Hookah – Middle Eastern water pipe used for smoking tobacco or marijuana
Homer – freebase cocaine
Hop dog – opium addict
Hophead – opium addict
Horn – snorting a drug; using an inhalant
Hot bust – drug arrest based upon informant or undercover officer
Hubbly bubbly – hookah; a Middle Eastern water pipe used for smoking tobacco or marijuana
Huffing – using an inhalant
Hug drug – MDMA
Huggers – MDMA
Hache – heroin
Hail – crack
Hairy – heroin
Half – 1/2 ounce
Half-a-C – $50 bill
Half a football field – 50 rocks of crack
Half G – $500
Half load – 15 bags (decks) of heroin
Half moon – peyote
Half piece – 1/2 ounce of heroin or cocaine
Half track – crack
Hamburger helper – crack
Hand-to-hand – direct delivery and payment
Hand-to-hand man – transient dealers who carry small amounts of crack
Hanhich – marijuana
Hanyak – smokable speed
Happy cigarette – marijuana cigarette
Happy dust – cocaine
Happy powder – cocaine
Happy trails – cocaine
Hard candy – heroin
Hard line – crack
Hard rock – crack
Hard stuff – opium; heroin
Hardware – isobutyl nitrite
Harry – heroin
Hats – LSD
Has – marijuana
Have a dust – cocaine
Haven dust – cocaine
Hawaiin – very high potency marijuana
Hawaiian sunshine – LSD
Hawk – LSD
Hay – marijuana
Hay butt – marijuana cigarette
Haze – LSD
Hazel – heroin
Head drugs – amphetamine
Headlights – LSD
Heart-on – inhalant
Hearts – amphetamine
Heaven and Hell – PCP
Heaven dust – heroin; cocaine
Heavenly blue – LSD
Heeled – having plenty of money
He-man – fentanyl
Hemp – marijuana
Henry VIII – cocaine
Her – cocaine
Herb – marijuana
Herb and Al – marijuana and alcohol
Herba – marijuana
Heroina – heroin
Highbeams – the wide eyes of a person on crack
Hiropon – smokable methamphetamine
Hit – crack; marijuana cigarette; to smoke marijuana
Hit the hay – to smoke marijuana
Hit the main line – to inject a drug
Hit the needle – to inject a drug
Hit the pit – to inject a drug
Hitch up the reindeers – to inhale cocaine
Hocus – opium; marijuana
Homegrown – marijuana
Honey blunts – Marijuana cigars sealed with honey
Honey oil – ketamine; inhalant
Honeymoon – early stages of drug use before addiction or dependency develops
Hooch – marijuana
Hooked – addicted
Horn – to inhale cocaine; crack pipe
Horning – heroin; to inhale cocaine
Horse tracks – PCP
Horse tranquilizer – PCP
Hot heroin – poisoned to give to a police informant
Hot ice – smokable methamphetamine
Hot load/hot shot – lethal injection of an opiate
Hot stick – marijuana cigarette
Hotcakes – crack
House fee – money paid to enter a crackhouse
House piece – crack given to the owner of a crackhouse or apartment where crack users congregate
How do you like me now? – crack
Hubba, I am back – crack
Hubba pigeon – crack user looking for rocks on a floor after a police raid
Hubbas – crack, term from Northern CA
Huff – inhalant
Huffer – inhalant abuser
Hunter – cocaine
Hustle – attempt to obtain drug customers
Hyatari – peyote
Hype – heroin addict; an addict
I am back – crack
In transit – on an LSD trip
Incentive – cocaine
Indian hemp – marijuana
Indiana ditchweed – low-potency wild marijuana, grows wild from seeds originally bred for hemp rope
Indiana hay – marijuana
Ice – cocaine; methamphetamine; smokeable amphetamine; MDMA, PCP
Ice cream habit – occasional use of drugs
Ice cube – crack
Icing – cocaine
Inbetweens – depressant; amphetamine
Inca message – cocaine
Indian hay – marijuana from India
Indica – species of cannabis, found in hot climate, grows 3.5 to 4 feet
Indo – marijuana, term from Northern CA
Indonesian bud – marijuana; opium
Instant zen – LSD
Interplanetary mission – travel from one crackhouse to another in search of crack
Isda – heroin
J – marijuana cigarette
Jack back – injecting drug partially into a vein, then withdrawing blood into syringe before reinjecting
Jag – prolonged intoxication
Jammed up – overdosed on drugs
Jeff – methcathinone
Jellies – chloral hydrate
Jelly beans – chloral hydrate
Joe Fridays – Quaalude; methaqualone (from the Sgt. Friday’s badge number on dragnet, and the numeric code on the Quaalude tablet [714])
Johnson grass – low potency Texas marijuana (as in Lyndon Johnson)
(the) Jones – drug addiction; withdrawal symptoms
Jonesing a fix – obtaining small amount of drugs when unable to pay
Joy juice – choral hydrate in an alcoholic beverage
Judas – heroin (a friend that betrays you)
Jab/job – to inject a drug
Jackpot – fentanyl
Jack-Up – to inject a drug
Jag – keep a high going
Jam – amphetamine; cocaine
Jam cecil – amphetamine
Jane – marijuana
Jay smoke – marijuana
Jay – marijuana cigarette
Jefferson airplane – used match cut in half to hold a partially smoked marijuana cigarette
Jellies – depressant
Jelly – cocaine
Jelly baby – amphetamine
Jelly bean – amphetamine; depressant
Jelly beans – crack
Jet – ketamine
Jim Jones – marijuana laced with cocaine and PCP
Jive – heroin; marijuana; drugs
Jive stick – marijuana
Johnson – crack
Joint – marijuana cigarette
Jolly bean – amphetamine
Jolly green – marijuana
Jolly pop – casual user of heroin
Jolt – to inject a drug; strong reaction to drugs
Joy flakes – heroin
Joy juice – depressant
Joy plant – opium
Joy pop – to inject a drug
Joy popping – occasional use of drugs
Joy powder – heroin; cocaine
Joy smoke – marijuana
Joy stick – marijuana cigarette
Ju-ju – marijuana cigarette
Juggle – sell drugs to another addict to support a habit
Juggler – teen-aged street dealer
Jugs – amphetamine
Juice joint – marijuana cigarette sprinkled with crack
Jum – sealed plastic bag containing crack
Jumbos – large vials of crack sold on the streets
Junk – cocaine; heroin
Kabayo – heroin
K – ketamine
Kat – khat, leaves of the Cathula edulis plant (a stimulant)
Kee – kilogram of a drug
Key – kilogram of a drug
Kibbles and bits – Talwin (pentazocine) and Ritalin combo
Khat – leaves of the Cathula edulis plant (a stimulant)
Kick – withdrawal from drugs
Kick cold turkey – withdraw from narcotics (from the gooseflesh sensation as symptom of withdrawal syndrome)
KIck the habit – withdraw from narcotics (from leg tremors and convulsions as symptoms of withdrawal syndrome); withdraw from any drug
Kicking – withdrawing from drugs
Kif – hashish, potent Moroccan marijuana
Kilo – kilogram of a drug
KIlo connection – drug dealer who sells in kilogram quantities
King Kong – major heroin habit
King Kong pills – barbiturate sleeping pills
kingpin – major drug dealer who imports or sells drugs in large quantities
Knockout drops – choral hydrate mixed in an alcoholic beverage
Krypt tonight – isobutyl nitrite (brand name)
Kabuki – crack pipe made from a plastic rum bottle and a rubber sparkplug cover
Kaksonjae – smokable methamphetamine
Kali – marijuana
Kangaroo – crack
Kaps – PCP
Karachi – heroin
Kaya – marijuana
K-blast – PCP
Kentucky blue – marijuana
KGB (killer green bud) – marijuana
K-hole – periods of ketamine-induced confusion
Kibbles & Bits – small crumbs of crack
Kick – getting off a drug habit; inhalant
Kick stick – marijuana cigarette
Kiff – marijuana
Killer – marijuana; PCP
Kilter – marijuana
Kind – marijuana
King ivory – fentanyl
King Kong pills – depressant
King’s habit – cocaine
Kleenex – MDMA
Klingons – crack addicts
Kokomo – crack
Kryptonite – crack
Krystal – PCP
Krystal joint – PCP
Kumba – marijuana
L.A. – long-acting amphetamine
L.A. glass – smokable methamphetamine
L.A. ice – smokable methamphetamine
L.A. turnarounds – amphetamines, especially Biphetamine (amphetamine/ dextroamphetamine combo)
Lace (verb) – incorporating or mixing one drug in another
Lay – smoke opium
Lay down – smoke opium in reclining position; use drugs
Layout – paraphernalia for using drugs, especially for smoking opium
L.B. – a pound of drugs
L.B.J. – JB 226-N-Methyl-3 Piperidyl benzitate hydrochloride (a psychedelic drug)
Lebanese – hashish from Lebanon
Lemon – weak or impotent dose of drugs
Lemmon 714 – Quaalude (methaqualone)
Lemons – Quaalude (methaqualone)
Lennons – Quaalude (methaqualone)
Lewds – Quaalude (methaqualone)
Lip poppers – amphetamines
Light up – smoke marijuana
Limbo – marijuana
Line – main vein in the arm used for injecting drugs
Line – single dose for snorting cocaine hydrochloride
Loaded – intoxicated on any drug
Loads – Doriden (glutethimide) and codeine combo
Loco – marijuana
Locoweed – Jimson weed (Datura stramonium)
Look-alike drug – counterfeit drug that mimics the appearance of a controlled substance
Love drug – Quaalude (methaqualone)
Love drug of the ’80s – MDMA
Love drug of the ’90s – MDMA
Love trip – mescaline and MDA combo
Lovers – Quaalude (methaqualone)
Lucas – marijuana
Ludes – Quaalude (methaqualone)
Luding out – intoxicated on Quaalude (methaqualone)
Lumber – marijuana stems and wastes
L.L. – marijuana
Lace – cocaine and marijuana
Lady – cocaine
Lady caine – cocaine
Lady snow – cocaine
Lakbay diva – marijuana
Lamborghini – crack pipe made from plastic rum bottle and a rubber sparkplug cover
Las mujercitas – psilocybin
Lason sa daga – LSD
Laugh and scratch – to inject a drug
Laughing gas – nitrous oxide
Laughing grass – marijuana
Laughing weed – marijuana
Lay back – depressant
Lay-out – equipment for taking drugs
Leaky bolla – PCP
Leaky leak – PCP
Leaf – marijuana; cocaine
Leapers – amphetamine
Leaping – under the influence of drugs
Legal speed – over the counter asthma drug; trate name = Mini thin
Lemonade – heroin; poor quality drugs
Lethal weapon – PCP
Lib (Librium) – depressant
Lid – 1 ounce of marijuana
Lid proppers – amphetamine
Light stuff – marijuana
Lightning – amphetamine
Lima – marijuana
Lime acid – LSD
Line – cocaine
Lipton Tea – inferior quality drugs
Little bomb – amphetamine; heroin; depressant
Little smoke – marijuana; psilocybin/psilocin
Llesca – marijuana
Load – 25 bags of heroin
Loaded – high
Loaf – marijuana
Lobo – marijuana
Locoweed – marijuana
Log – PCP; marijuana cigarette
Loused – covered by sores and abscesses from repeated use of unsterile needles
Love – crack
Love affair – cocaine
Love boat – marijuana dipped in formaldehyde; PCP
Love drug – MDMA; depressant
Love pearls – alpha-ethyltyptamine
Love pills – alpha-ethyltyptamine
Love trip – MDMA and mescaline
Love weed – marijuana
Lovelies – marijuana laced with PCP
LSD – lysergic acid diethylamide
Lucy in the sky with diamonds – LSD
Ludes – depressant
Luding out – depressant
Luds – depressant
M – marijuana; morphine
M&Ms – Seconal (secobarbital)
M&Ms – MDMA
Mad dog – Mogen David 20/20 fortified wine
Man – heroin; drug dealer; the police
Mary – morphine [obsolete]
Mellow drug of America – MDMA
Merck – pharmaceutical cocaine (from the manufacturer)
Mescal – an intoxicating distilled beverage, from the maguey plant
Mickey Finn – choral hydrate mixed in an alcoholic beverage
Mike – microgram of a drug (one-millionth of a gram)
Miltown – meprobamate, a tranquilizer
Mister Natural – LSD
Morphina – morphine
Monkey on one’s back – addiction to a drug, especially heroin or opium
Moocah – marijuana
Mother – a drug pusher
Mother’s Little Helper – Valium (diazepam)
Muggles – marijuana
Munchies – symptoms of intense hunger after marijuana use
M.J. – marijuana
M.O. – marijuana
M.U. – marijuana
Machinery – marijuana
Macon – marijuana
Madman – PCP
Mad dog – PCP
Magic – PCP
Magic dust – PCP
Magic mushroom – psilocybin/psilocin
Magic smoke – marijuana
Main line – to inject a drug
Mainliner – person who injects into the vein
Make up – need to find more drugs
Mama coca – cocaine
Manhattan silver – marijuana
Marathons – amphetamine
Mari – marijuana cigarette
Marshmallow reds – depressant
Mary – marijuana
Mary and Johnny – marijuana
Mary Ann – marijuana
Mary Jane – marijuana
Mary Warner – marijuana
Mary Weaver – marijuana
Maserati – crack pipe made from a plastic rum bottle and a rubber sparkplug cover
Matchbox – 1/4 ounce of marijuana or 6 marijuana cigarettes
Matsakow – heroin
Maui wauie – marijuana from Hawaii
Max – gamma hydroxy butyrate dissolved in water and mixed with amphetamines
Maxibolin – oral steroid
Mayo – cocaine; heroin
MDMA – methylenedioxy-methamphetamine
Mean green – PCP
Meg – marijuana
Megg – marijuana cigarette
Meggie – marijuana
Merchandise – drugs
Merk – cocaine
Mesc – mescaline
Mescal – mescaline
Mese – mescaline
Messorole – marijuana
Meth – methamphetamine
Meth head – regular user of methamphetamine
Meth monster – person who has a violent reaction to methamphetamine
Methatriol – injectable steroid
Methyltestosterone – oral steroid
Mexican horse – heroin
Mexican mushroom – psilocybin/psilocin
Mexican red – marijuana
Mezc – mescaline
Mickey Finn – depressant
Mickey’s – depressant
Mighty Joe Young – depressant
Mighty mezz – marijuana cigarette
Minibennie – amphetamine
Mint leaf – PCP
Mira – opium
Miss – to inject a drug
Miss Emma – morphine
Missile basing – crack liquid and PCP
Mission – trip out of the crackhouse to obtain crack
Mist – PCP; crack smoke
Modams – marijuana
Mohasky – marijuana
Mojo – cocaine; heroin
Monkey – drug dependency; cigarette made from cocaine paste and tobacco
Monos – cigarette made from cocaine paste and tobacco
Monte – marijuana from South America
Mooca/moocah – marijuana
Moon – mescaline
Moonrock – crack and heroin
Moota/mutah – marijuana
Mooters – marijuana cigarette
Mootie – marijuana
Morning wake-up – first blast of crack from the pipe
Morotgara – heroin
Mortal combat – high potency heroin
Mosquitos – cocaine
Mota/moto – marijuana
Mother – marijuana
Mow the grass – to smoke marijuana
Muggie – marijuana
Mujer – cocaine
Nail – marijuana cigarette
Nail – hypodermic syringe
Narc – pejorative term for narcotics officer
Nebbies – Nembutal (pentobarbital)
Needle Park – Sherman Square at Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue in New York City, hangout for addicts and pushers
Nemish – Nembutal (pentobarbital)
Night time – heroin withdrawal
Nimbies – Nembutal (pentobarbital)
Nailed – arrested
Nanoo – heroin
Nebbies – depressant
Nemmies – depressant
New acid – PCP
New magic – PCP
New Jack Swing – heroin and morphine
Nice and easy – heroin
Nickel bag – $5 worth of drugs; heroin
Nickelonians – crack addicts
Niebla – PCP
Nimbies – depressant
Nix – stranger among the group
Nose candy – cocaine
Nugget – amphetamine
Nuggets – crack
Number – marijuana cigarette
Number 3 – cocaine, heroin
O.J. – marijuana
Ocean Spray – salt water in mister bottle used to spray nasal passages after snorting cocaine or other drugs
Off – high on a drug
Oil – hashish oil
On the pine – smoking freebase cocaine
One and one – snorting cocaine using both nostrils
Orange – Desoxyn (methamphetamine)
Orange cupcakes – LSD, methamphetamine, strichnine, and STP combo
Ounce man – dealer who sells in one ounce quantities
Outfit – paraphernalia for injecting drugs
Oz – an ounce of a drug
Ozzie’s stuff – LSD (apparent reference to Ozzie Osborne)
Octane – PCP laced with gasoline
On a mission – searching for crack
On a trip – under the influence of drugs
On ice – in jail
On the bricks – walking the streets
On the nod – under the influence of narcotics or depressant
One and one – to inhale cocaine
One box tissue – one ounce of crack
One-fifty-one – crack
One way – LSD
Optical illusions – LSD
Orange barrels – LSD
Orange crystal – PCP
Orange cubes – LSD
Orange haze – LSD
Orange micro – LSD
Orange wedges – LSD
Oranges – amphetamine
Outerlimits – crack and LSD
Owsley’s acid – LSD
Oz – inhalant
PCPA – PCP
Paca lolo – marijuana (Hawaiian term)
Paregoric – camphorated tincture of opium, lightly regulated
Partying – using a drug, especially heroin; getting drunk
PDR – Physician’s Desk Reference (a drug directory)
Peanuts – barbiturate sleeping pills
Peace weed – marijuana with PCP
Peaches – Benzedrine (amphetamine) tablets
Peaking – point of highest intensity in an LSD trip
Pearly Gates – variety of psychedelic morning glory seeds
Percs – Percodan (oxycodone)
Perks – Percodan (oxycodone)
Peter – choral hydrate
Petrol – gasoline (for sniffing)
P.F. – crack cocaine in aspirin-sized tablets as a disguise
P.G. – paregoric
Phennies – phenobarbital
Phenos – phenobarbital
Phillies Blunt – cigar hollowed out and filled with marijuana
Picked up – smoked marijuana
Pin – thinly-rolled marijuana cigarettes
Pineapple – heroin and Ritalin or amphetamine
Pink spoons – Percodan (oxycodone)
Pinks – Seconal (secobarbital) tablets
Pinned – high on narcotics (from pinpoint pupils)
Plant – drugs placed by others to incriminate a suspect
Platters – hashish
Poke – to smoke a marijuana cigarette
Poor man’s speedball – heroin and methamphetamine combo
Pop – drug arrest
Popping – injecting drugs subcutaneously (see skin popping)
Potlikker – tea brewed from marijuana waste
Pot liquor – tea brewed from marijuana waste
P.R. – Panama red marijuana
Preludes – Preludin (phenmetrazine hydrochloride)
Puff – to smoke, especially opium
Purple hearts – Luminal tablets
P.R. (Panama Red) – marijuana
P-funk – heroin; crack and PCP
Pack – heroin; marijuana
Pack of rocks – marijuana cigarette
Pakalolo – marijuana
Pakistani black – marijuana
Panama cut – marijuana
Panama gold – marijuana
Panama red – marijuana
Panatella – large marijuana cigarette
Pancakes and syrup – Combination of glutethimide and codeine cough syrup
Pane – LSD
Pangonadalot – heroin
Panic – drugs not available
Paper acid – LSD
Paper bag – container for drugs
Paper blunts – marijuana within a paper casing rather than a tobacco leaf casing
Paper boy – heroin peddler
Parabolin – veterinary steroid
Parachute – crack and PCP smoked; heroin
Paradise – cocaine
Paradise white – cocaine
Parlay – crack
Parsley – marijuana, PCP
Paste – crack
Pat – marijuana
Patico – crack (Spanish)
Paz – PCP
Peace – LSD, PCP
Peace pill – PCP
Peace tablets – LSD
Peace weed – PCP
Peaches – amphetamine
Peanut – depressant
Peanut butter – PCP mixed with peanut butter
Pearl – cocaine
Pearls – amyl nitrite
Pearly gates – LSD
Pebbles – crack
Peddlar – drug supplier
Pee Wee – crack; $5 worth of crack
Pen yan – opium
Pep pills – amphetamine
Pepsi habit – occasional use of drugs
Perico – cocaine
Perp – fake crack made of candle wax and baking soda
Peter Pan – PCP
Peth – depressant
Peruvian – cocaine
Peruvian flake – cocaine
Peruvian lady – cocaine
Peyote – mescaline
Phennies – depressant
Phenos – depressant
Pianoing – using the fingers to find lost crack
Piece – 1 ounce; cocaine; crack
Piedras – crack (Spanish)
Piles – crack
Pimp – cocaine
Pimp your pipe – lending or renting your crack pipe
Pin – marijuana
Ping-in-wing – to inject a drug
Pink hearts – amphetamine
Pink ladies – depressant
Pink Panther – LSD
Pipe – crack pipe; marijuana pipe; vein into which a drug is injected; mix drugs with other substances
Pipero – crack user
Pixies – amphetamine
Plant – hiding place for drugs
Pocket rocket – marijuana
Pod – marijuana
Poison – heroin; fentanyl
Poke – marijuana
Polvo blanco – cocaine
Polvo de angel – PCP
Polvo de estrellas – PCP
Pony – crack
Poor man’s pot – inhalant
Pop – to inhale cocaine
Poppers – isobutyl nitrite; amyl nitrite
Pot – marijuana
Potato – LSD
Potato chips – crack cut with benzocaine
Potten bush – marijuana
Powder – heroin; amphetamine
Powder diamonds – cocaine
Power puller – rubber piece attached to crack stem
Prescription – marijuana cigarette
Press – cocaine; crack
Pretendica – marijuana
Pretendo – marijuana
Primo – crack; marijuana mixed with crack
Primobolan – injectable and oral steroid
Primos – cigarettes laced with cocaine and heroin
Proviron – oral steroid
Pseudocaine – phenylpropanolamine, an adulterant for cutting crack
Puff the dragon – to smoke marijuana
Puffer – crack smoker
Pullers – crack users who pull at parts of their bodies excessively
Pumping – selling crack
Purple – ketamine
Purple barrels – LSD
Purple haze – LSD
Purple hearts – LSD; amphetamine; depressant
Purple flats – LSD
Purple rain – PCP
Push shorts – to cheat or sell short amounts
Pusher – one who sells drugs; metal hanger or umbrella rod used to scrape residue in crack stems
Q – depressant
q’at – khat, leaves of the Cathula edulis plant (a stimulant)
qua – Quaalude (methaqualone)
quaa – Quaalude (methaqualone)
quack – Quaalude (methaqualone)
Quad – Quaalude (methaqualone)
Quas – Quaaludes (methaqualone)
Quad – depressant
Quarter – 1/4 ounce or $25 worth of drugs
Quarter bag – $25 worth of drugs
Quarter moon – hashish
Quarter piece – 1/4 ounce
Quartz – smokable speed
Queen Ann’s lace – marijuana
Quill – methamphetamine; heroin; cocaine
Quinolone – injectable steroid
Racehorse charlie – cocaine; heroin
Ragweed – inferior quality marijuana; heroin
Railroad weed – marijuana
Rainbows – depressant
Rainy day woman – marijuana
Rambo – heroin
Rail – single dose for snorting cocaine hydrochloride
R and R – Seconal (secobarbital) and Ripple wine (reds and Ripple)
Rainbows – Tuinal (amobarbital/secobarbital combo) (a multi- colored striped capsule)
Red birds – Seconal (secobarbital) (red capsules)
Red bullets – Seconal (secobarbital) (red capsules)
Red and blues – Tuinal (amobarbital/secobarbital combo)
Reds – Seconal (secobarbital) (red capsules)
Reds and Ripple – Seconal (secobarbital) and Ripple wine
Ripped – intoxicated
Roses – Benzedrine (amphetamine) tablets
Rush – initial euphoria at the onset of drug use
Rane – cocaine; heroin
Rangood – marijuana grown wild
Rap – criminally charged; to talk with someone
Rasta weed – marijuana
Raw – crack
Rave – party designed to enhance a hallucinogenic experience through music and behavior
Razed – under the influence of drugs
Ready rock – cocaine; crack; heroin
Recompress – change the shape of cocaine flakes to resemble �rock�
Red and blue – depressant
Red bullets – depressant
Red caps – crack
Red cross – marijuana
Red devil – depressant, PCP
Red dirt – marijuana
Reds – depressant
Red eagle – heroin
Red phosphorus – smokable speed
Reefer – marijuana
Regular P – crack
Rhythm – amphetamine
Riding the wave – under the influence of drugs
Righteous bush – marijuana
Ringer – good hit of crack
Rippers – amphetamine
Roach – butt of marijuana cigarette
Roach clip – holds partially smoked marijuana cigarette
Road dope – amphetamine
Roca – crack (Spanish)
Rock attack – crack
Rock house – place where crack is sold and smoked
Rock(s) – cocaine; crack
Rocket caps – dome-shaped caps on crack vials
Rockets – marijuana cigarette
Rockette – female who uses crack
Rocks of hell – crack
Rock star – female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack
Rocky III – crack
Roid rage – aggressive behavior caused by excessive steroid use
Roller – to inject a drug
Rolling – under the influence of MDMA
Roofies – Rophynol; a sedative that makes users feel very drunk
Rooster – crack
Root – marijuana
Rope – marijuana
Rosa – amphetamine
Rose marie – marijuana
Roses – amphetamine
Rox – crack
Roxanne – cocaine; crack
Royal blues – LSD
Roz – crack
Ruderalis – species of cannabis, found in Russia, grows 1 to 2.5 feet
Running – MDMA
Rush snappers – isobutyl nitrite
Russian sickles – LSD
Sacrament – LSD
Sacred mushrooms – psilocybin
Schmack – heroin
Score – price of a bundle of drugs, especially heroin
Scratch – addict (from an addict’s habit of scratching self)
Seggy – Seconal (secobarbital)
Serenity, tranquility, and peace – STP
Sets – Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute
714s – Quaalude (methaqualone)
Seven fourteens – Quaalude (methaqualone)
Sherm – tobacco cigarette laced with PCP
Sherman – tobacco cigarette laced with PCP
Shlook – a puff of a marijuana cigarette
Short count – short weight of drug as a result of cheating
Short go – short weight of drug as a result of cheating
Shotgun – inhaling marijuana smoke forced into one’s mouth by another’s exhaling sometimes through long cylinder like a gun barrel
60 second trip – amyl nitrite
Skin – marijuana rolling paper
Skinning – injecting drugs subcutaneously
Sleepers – barbiturates
Sleepwalker – heroin addict
Snappers – amyl nitrite
Snop – marijuana
Snort – cocaine
Snort – inhalants
Snow lights – visual hallucinations after cocaine use, image of flashing bright lights
Sopors – Sopor (methaqualone)
Space blasting – smoking cocaine and PCP together
Spaced – intoxicated by psychedelic drug
Speckled birds – amphetamines
Speckled eggs – amphetamines
Speedball – injection of heroin and cocaine mixture
Speedball artist – one who injects heroin and cocaine mixture
Spring – giving a marijuana cigarette to another
Stanley’s stuff – LSD
Star – LSD blotter acid with star-shaped design
Steamboat – inhaling marijuana smoke trapped in toilet paper roll or similar device used to burn last embers of the butt
Sticks – marijuana stems and waste
Sting – police trap set for unwitting criminals
Stool – police informant; to cooperate with police
Straight – not using drugs
Street, the – where addicts congregate and exchange drugs
Strung out – addicted to drugs with severe symptoms
Stuff – any drug, especially narcotics
Stumblers – barbiturates
Swingman – drug pusher
Supper – Sopor (methaqualone)
Super cools – PCP laced cigarettes
Super flu – heroin withdrawal symptoms
Super Sopors – Parest (methaqualone)
Super grass – marijuana with PCP
Super weed – marijuana with PCP
Supers – methaqualone
Syrup and beans – Doriden (glutethimide) and codeine
Sacre mushroom – psilocybin
Salt – heroin
Salt and pepper – marijuana
Sam – federal narcotics agent
Sandoz – LSD
Sandwich – two layers of cocaine with a layer of heroin in the middle
Santa Marta – marijuana
Sasfras – marijuana
Satan’s secret – inhalant
Satch – papers, letter, cards, clothing, etc., saturated with drug solution (used to smuggle drugs into prisons or hospitals)
Satch cotton – fabric used to filter a solution of narcotics before injection
Sativa – species of cannabis, found in cool, damp climate, grows up to 18 feet
Scaffle – PCP
Scag – heroin
Scat – heroin
Scate – heroin
Scissors – marijuana
Score – purchase drugs
Scorpion – cocaine
Scottie – cocaine
Scotty – cocaine; crack; the high from crack
Scramble – crack
Scratch – money
Scruples – crack
Seccy – depressant
Seeds – marijuana
Seggy – depressant
Sen – marijuana
Serpico 21 – cocaine
Server – crack dealer
Sess – marijuana
Sevenup – cocaine; crack
Sezz – marijuana
Shabu – ice
Shake – marijuana
Shaker/baker/water – materials needed to freebase cocaine; shakerbottle, baking soda, water
Sharps – needles
She – cocaine
Sheet rocking – crack and LSD
Shermans – PCP
Sherms – PCP; crack
Shoot/shoot up – to inject a drug
Shooting gallery – place where drugs are used
Shot – to inject a drug
Siddi – marijuana
Sightball – crack
Sinse – marijuana
Sinsemilla – potent variety marijuana
Sixty-two – 2 1/2 ounces of crack
Sketching – coming down from a speed induced high
Skunk – marijuana
Slab – crack
Slam – to inject a drug
Slanging – selling drugs
Sleeper – heroin; depressant
Sleet – crack
Slick superspeed – methcathinone
Smack – heroin
Smears – LSD
Smoke – heroin and crack; crack; marijuana
Smoke Canada – marijuana
Smoking gun – heroin and cocaine
Snap – amphetamine
Snappers – isobutyl nitrite
Sniff – to inhale cocaine; inhalant; methcathinone
Snop – marijuana
Snort – to inhale cocaine; use inhalant
Snow – cocaine; heroin; amphetamine
Snowball – cocaine and heroin
Snow bird – cocaine
Snowcones – cocaine
Snow pallets – amphetamine
Snow seals – cocaine and amphetamine
Snow soke – crack
Snow white – cocaine
Society high – cocaine
Soda – injectable cocaine
Softballs – depressant
Soles – hashish
Soma – PCP
Sopers – depressant
Space base – crack dipped in PCP; hollowed out cigar refilled with PCP and crack
Space cadet – crack dipped in PCP
Space dust – crack dipped in PCP
Space ship – glass pipe used to smoke crack
Spark it up – to smoke marijuana
Sparkle plenty – amphetamine
Sparklers – amphetamine
Special K – ketamine
Special la coke – ketamine
Speed – methamphetamine; amphetamine; crack
Speed boat – marijuana, PCP, crack
Speed freak – habitual user of methamphetamine
Speedball – heroin and cocaine; amphetamine
Spike – to inject a drug; needle
Splash – amphetamine
Spliff – marijuana cigarette
Splim – marijuana
Split – half and half or to leave
Splivins – amphetamine
Spoon – 1/16 ounce of heroin; paraphernalia used to prepare heroin for injection
Sporting – to inhale cocaine
Spray – inhalant
Sprung – person just starting to use drugs
Square mackerel – marijuana, term from Florida
Square time Bob – crack
Squirrel – smoking cocaine, marijuana and PCP; LSD
Stack – marijuana
Stacking – taking steroids with a prescription
Star – methcathinone
Stardust – cocaine, PCP
Star-spangled powder – cocaine
Stash – place to hide drugs
Stash areas – drug storage and distribution areas
Stat – Methcathinone
Steerer – person who directs customers to spots for buying crack
Stem – cylinder used to smoke crack
Stems – marijuana
Stick – marijuana, PCP
Stink weed – marijuana
Stones – crack
Stoppers – depressant
Straw – marijuana cigarette
Strawberries – depressant
Strawberry fields – LSD
Strung out – heavily addicted to drugs
Stumbler – depressant
Sugar – cocaine; LSD; heroin
Sugar block – crack
Sugar cubes – LSD
Sugar lumps – LSD
Sugar weed – marijuana
Super acid – ketamine
Super C – ketamine
Super Grass – PCP
Super ice – smokable methamphetamine
Supergrass – marijuana
Sweet Lucy – marijuana
Sweet stuff – heroin; cocaine
Sweets – amphetamine
Swell up – crack
synthetic cocaine – PCP
T – cocaine; marijuana
Tabs – tablets of any drug
Tac – PCP
Take off – to get intoxicated; to inject narcotics; to rob
Take off artists – heroin addicts who rob other addicts to get drugs
Taking care of business – heroin addicts life and actions on the street
Taking on a number – smoking marijuana
Tall – intoxicated
Tall – Talwin (pentazocine)
Tapping the bags – when dealers remove small amounts of heroin from a bag before selling it, thus short weighting the buyer
T-birds – Tuinal (amobarbital/secobarbital combo)
THC – tetrahydrocannabinol; marijuana; PCP (erroneously used)
Tecata – heroin
Temple balls – hashish
Ten cent pistol – heroin dose laced with poison
Tens – 10mg amphetamine tablets
300’s – Quaaludes (methaqualone)
Three hundreds – Quaaludes (methaqualone)
T’s and B’s – Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute
Tic tac – PCP
Tie off – tighten tourniquet to facilitate injection
Tie up – tighten tourniquet to facilitate injection
Tighten someone’s wig – provide marijuana [1940’s]
Tijuana – marijuana
TJ – marijuana (from Tijuana)
Toak – to inhale smoke, especially marijuana
Toke pipes – small pipes in which marijuana is smoked
Toke up – to light a marijuana cigarette
Topi – peyote cactus (contains mescaline)
Tops and bottoms – Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute
Torn up – intoxicated
Torpedo – choral hydrate in an alcoholic beverage
Toys – hypodermic syringe and injection paraphernalia
Tracks – scars left over veins from frequent injections
Tricycles and bicycles – Talwin (pentazocine) and PBZ (pyribenzamine) used as a heroin substitute
Trip – a psychedelic drug use experience; to be intoxicated on psychedelic drugs
Tripping – intoxicated on psychedelic drugs, especially LSD
Tripsville – San Francisco
Tooey – Tuinal (amobarbital/secobarbital combo)
Tuie – Tuinal (amobarbital/secobarbital combo)
Turnarounds – amphetamines, especially Biphetamine (amphetamine/ dextroamphetamine combo)
turp – elixir of terpin hydrate and codeine
Twoies – Tuinal (amobarbital/secobarbital combo)
T.N.T. – heroin; fentanyl
Tabs – LSD
Tail lights – LSD
Taima – marijuana
Taking a cruise – PCP
Takkouri – marijuana
Tango Cash – fentanyl
Tar – opium; heroin
Tardust – cocaine
Taste – heroin; small sample of drugs
Taxing – price paid to enter a crackhouse; charging more per vial depending on race of customer or if not a regular customer
Tea – marijuana, PCP
Tea party – to smoke marijuana
Teardrops – dosage units of crack packaged in the cut-off corners of plastic bags
Tecate – heroin
Teenage – 1/16 gram of methamphetamine
Teeth – cocaine; crack
Tension – crack
Tex-mex – marijuana
Texas pot – marijuana
Texas tea – marijuana
Thai sticks – bundles of marijuana soaked in hashish oil; marijuana buds bound on short sections of bamboo
THC – tetrahydrocannabinol
The beast – heroin
The C – methcathinone
The devil – crack
Therobolin – injectable steroid
Thing – heroin; cocaine; main drug interest at the moment
Thirteen – marijuana
Thrusters – amphetamine
Thumb – marijuana
Tic tac – PCP
Tie – to inject a drug
Tin – container for marijuana
Tissue – crack
Toilet water – inhalant
Toke – to inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana
Toke up – to smoke marijuana
Toncho – octane booster which is inhaled
Tooles – depressant
Toot – cocaine; to inhale cocaine
Tooties – depressant
Top gun – crack
Topi – mescaline
Torch – marijuana
Torch cooking – smoking cocaine base by using a propane or butane torch as a source of flame
Torch up – to smoke marijuana
Torpedo – crack and marijuana
Totally spent – MDMA hangover
TR-6s – amphetamine
Track – to inject a drug
Tracks – row of needle marks on a person
Tragic magic – crack dipped in PCP
Trails – LSD induced perception that moving objects leave multiple images or trails behind them
Trank – PCP
Tranq – depressant
Trap – hiding place for drugs
Trays – bunches of vials
Travel agent – LSD supplier
Trip – LSD; alpha-ethyltyptamine
Troop – crack
Trophobolene – injectable steroid
Truck drivers – amphetamine
Tuie – depressant
Turbo – crack and marijuana
Turf – place where drugs are sold
Turkey – cocaine; amphetamine
Turnabout – amphetamine
Tutti-frutti – flavored cocaine developed by a Brazillian gang
Tweak mission – on a mission to find crack
Tweaking – drug-induced paranoia; peaking on speed
Tweek – methamphetamine-like substance
Tweeker – methcathinone
Twenty – $20 rock of crack
Twist – marijuana cigarette
Twistum – marijuana cigarette
Two for nine – two $5 vials or bags of crack for $9
Ultimate – crack
Uncle Miltie – Miltown (meprobamate)
Up – stimulant drug
Using – taking drugs
Uncle – Federal agents
Uncle Milty – depressant
Up against the stem – addicted to smoking marijuana
Uppers – amphetamine
Uppies – amphetamine
Ups and downs – depressant
Utopiates – hallucinogens
Uzi – crack; crack pipe
V – the depressant Valium
Vipe – marijuana
Viper – marijuana smoker
Vitamin Q – Quaalude (methaqualone)
Vodka acid – LSD
Wac – PCP on marijuana
Wack – PCP
Wacky – marijuana
Wacky dust – cocaine
Wacky terbacky – marijuana
Wafer – LSD
Wallbangers – methaqualone (Quaalude or Mandrax)
Weasel dust – cocaine
Weekend habit – irregular narcotics use
Weekend warrior – irregular drug user
West Coast turnaround – amphetamines, especially Biphetamine (amphetamine/ dextroamphetamine combo)
Whiffenpoppers – amyl nitrite
Wired – intoxicated on amphetamines; addicted to heroin
Wake ups – amphetamine
Wasted – under the influence of drugs; murdered
Water – methamphetamine, PCP
Wave – crack
Weed – marijuana, PCP
Weightless – high on crack
Whack – PCP and heroin
Wheat – marijuana
White – amphetamine
White ball – crack
White cloud – crack smoke
White cross – methamphetamine; amphetamine
White ghost – crack
White horse – cocaine
White mosquito – cocaine
White powder – cocaine; PCP
White sugar – crack
White tornado – crack
Whites – amphetamine
Whiz bang – cocaine and heroin
Wild cat – methcathinone and cocaine
Window glass – LSD
Window pane – LSD
Wings – heroin; cocaine
Winstrol – oral steroid
Winstrol V – veterinary steroid
Witch hazel – heroin
Wollie – rocks of crack rolled into a marijuana cigarette
Wonder star – methcathinone
Woolah – a hollowed out cigar refilled with marijuana and crack
Woolas – cigarette laced with cocaine; marijuana cigarette sprinkled with crack
Woolies – marijuana amd crack or PCP
Wooly blunts – Marijuana and crack or PCP
Working – selling crack
Working half – crack rock weighing half gram or more
Wrecking crew – crack
X – marijuana; MDMA; amphetamine
X-ing – MDMA
XTC – MDMA
Yahoo/yeaho – crack
Yale – crack
Yeh – marijuana
Yellow jackets – Nembutal (pentobarbital)
Yellow submarines – Nembutal (pentobarbital) (a yellow downer capsule)
Yellow – LSD; depressant
Yellow bam – methamphetamine
Yellow bullets – depressant
Yellow jackets – depressant
Yellow submarine – marijuana
Yen pop – marijuana
Yen sleep – restless, drowsy state after LSD use
Yerba – marijuana
Yerba mala – PCP and marijuana
Yesca – marijuana
Yesco – marijuana
Yeyo – cocaine, Spanish term
Yimyom – crack
Zacatecas purple – marijuana from Mexico
Zambi – marijuana
Zig Zag man – LSD; marijuana; marijuana rolling papers
Zip – cocaine
Zombie weed – marijuana with PCP
Zonked – intoxicated
Zol – marijuana cigarette
Zombie – PCP; heavy user of drugs
Zooie – holds butt of marijuana cigarette
Zoom – PCP; marijuana laced with PCP
Zoomers – individuals who sell fake crack and then flee blood
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