Users of
illegal drugs frequently need to use
code words to converse more freely about their evil habits. A classic example,
420, supposedly came about in
California when some kids wanted to talk about getting
stoned without letting on to
authority figures what they were up to. Or perhaps slang developed because some
druggies are too far gone to pronounce
methamphetamine properly.
For a wider scope see The Project Project, the Dictionary metanode, Nodes about drugs and Alcohol and other drugs meta-metanode.
- Slang Names of the herb & derivatives: Cannabis Sativa, dope, pot, weed, bud, indian hemp, ganja, trees, wacky weed, kali, reefer, bud/buds, mary jane, hemp, bhang, hashish, hash, hash oil, wacky terbacky, THC, marinol, mota, green, buddha, shake, hooch, skunk, chronic / the chronic
- Hashish: hash, hasheesh, bhang, dohja, hash oil
- Types of marijuana: Indica & Sativa (the subspecies). sensimilla/sinsemilla/sensi, dank, nug, schwag, chronic, killer weed, bammer, green bud, dank herbs, garden variety, homegrown, kind bud, buddah, ditchweed, Mexican brick, shwizz
- amounts: eighth, quarter/quad, QP, lid/ounce/zipper,dub, dime bag, nickel bag, bale, brick
- strains: AK-47, Amstel Gold, Belladonna, Big Bud, Blueberry, Himalaya Gold, Juicy Fruit, Northern Lights, white rhino/white widow/white tiger, Mexican Gold, Acapulco Gold, Matanuska Thunderfuck, silver haze, skunk
People:
Altered states: blazed, stoned, wasted, buzzed, fucked up, budded, ripped, tore up, burned out,faded, raged, bent, high, high as a kite i.e. NOT sober
Paraphernalia & consumption: bong/bhong/bhang, water-pipe, joint/J, hookah, blunt, cash, scoob, roll a joint, skin up, toke up/toke/toking, spark, bogart, hotboxing, doobie/dooby, spliff, gas mask
Side effects: munchies, cotton mouth, red eyes
Derivatives & jokes: THC, marinol, 420, 4:20, 4/20, rez, resin
Mixtures: Coco Puffs (w/ PCP), snow cones (w/ meth - Oh, those Australians)
See also: Pot Jargon Metanode, Rituals of marijuana, stoner etiquette
Propz to other90percent for the Pot Jargon Metanode for content and organization here
- LSD: acid, trip, cid, blotter, microdot, windowpane, drop acid, instant zen, Love for my son and daughters, morning glory seeds MDMA + LSD = candy-flipping
- peyote: buttons, mescaline (active ingredient), mesc
- Mushrooms: shrooms, psylocybin, magic mushrooms, LSD + mushrooms = hippy-flipping
- DXM: Dextromethorphan, cough syrup, robo
- User: Psychonaut
Inhalants:
Lab drugs:
MDMA: ecstasy, X, E, rolling, XTC, Malcolm, adam, rolls, rolling,
ketamine: special k, vitamin k ephedrine
Valium: Jellies, Goofballs, Librium, Ativan
- Well-known slang: speed, candy, uppers, speedball
- Obscure slang: black beauties, A, Amies, Amp, Bam, Beans, Bennie, Benz, Black and white, Black beauties, Black birds, Black bombers, Black cadillacs, Black mollies, Blue boy, Black dex, Bombido, Bottles, Brain ticklers, Brownies, Browns, Bumblebees, Candy, Cartwheels, Chalk, Chicken powder, Chocolate, Christina, Christmas tree, Co-pilot, Coasts to coasts, Crank, Crisscross, Cross tops, Crossroads, Crystal, Dexies, Diet pills, Dominoes, Double cross, Eye openers, Fives, Footballs, Forwards, French blue, Glass, Head drugs, Hearts, Horse heads, Inbetweens, Jam, Jam cecil, Jelly baby, Jelly bean, Jolly bean, Jugs, Leapers, Lid poppers, Lid proppers, Lightning, Little bomb, Marathons, Minibennie, Nugget, Oranges, Peaches, Pep pills, Pink hearts, Pixies, Powder, Purple hearts, Rhythm, Rippers, Road dope, Roses, Slammin'/Slamming, Snap, Snow, Snow pallets, Sparkle plenty, Sparklers, Speed, Splash, Splivins, Star, Sweets, The C, Thrusters, TR-6s, Truck drivers, Turkey, Turnabout, Uppers, Uppies, Wake ups, West Coast Turnarounds, White Cross, White, Whites, X
(thank you to Archetype at the Amphetamine node)
- Misc. prescription drugs: Adderall, Ritalin
- Methamphetamine, crystal meth, meth, speed, crank, ice, line (one dose)
- Dextroamphetamine: dexedrine, Dexy's Midnight Runners, dex
Quaaludes, lude, luder
Phencyclidine, PCP, angel dust, killer weed (PCP + weed)
Rohypnol & GHB: gamma hydroxyl butyrate: georgia home boy, liquid ecstasy, grevious bodily harm, max, scoop, Somatomax, Mexican valium, Forget me drug, roofies, rope, ruffles, woofies
DMT
- users: base-head, basehead, cokehead
- names: yay, crack, base, freebase, baseball, homer, C, big C, blow, Bolivian marching powder, coke, crack, cat's pee, candy, dusty roads (when mixed with PCP), Florida snow (lookalike drug), jimmy, rock, whitecoat, lady caine, flake, line (one dose), Nose candy, jack, candy cane, Peruvian, schoolboy, scorpion, snort, snow, wacky dust, weasel dust
- Amounts: Cadillac (one ounce), line (one dose), kilo (one kilogram)
- Mixtures:speedball (w/ heroin)
- See also: slang terms for cocaine metanode
Sources: various related metanodes, http://www.lycaeum.org, http://www.addictions.org/slang.htm