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20 "Street" Terms From the White House Drug Control Policy Office
I've recently had to spend a great deal of time on the Web site of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. The ONDCP is, frankly, fascinating. It's a source of an incredible amount of information. Of course, it is not always the information you're actually looking for, but it is thrilling all the same.
It contains, for instance, the office's official list of drug street names. Below, let's see what the least drug friendly institution on the planet has decided to let concerned citizens know about the "word on the street." What's today's lingo?
Some of these street names are major revelations. "Bag Bride" is a term to describe a crack smoking prostitute. "Ghostbusting" is apparently the word for searching for white particles in the belief that they are crack. And in a hard to believe disclosure, "Geezin a bit of dee gee" is slang, somewhere, for injecting a drug.
One wonders about the purpose of this sort of list. The site explains that:
The Street Terms database contains over 2,300 street terms that refer to specific drug types or drug activity. The database is used by police officers, parents, treatment providers and others who require a better understanding of drug culture.
Of course, the fact that the street terms can appear on the Web site of Office of Drug Control Policy seems to indicate that these street terms are not exactly top secret. And I pity the person who, in an effort to figure out if his son has a drug problem, consults this page as a guide for terms to use when confronting the issue: "Are you a 'Cabbage head,' son?"
There are some terms here that ONDCP just gets wrong. The list defines "Bump" as "Crack; fake crack; cocaine; boost a high; hit of ketamine ($20)." That's puzzling; the most common definition of the word is simply "to snort cocaine." ONDCP also defines Bong as a "Pipe used to smoke marijuana." Well, not really.
Seriously, the marijuana page alone could be a whole chapter in Nineteen Eighty-Four. It ends with another helpful list of street terms, including: Blunt, Bud, J & Sinsemilla. Sinsemilla. Really?
This whole database of street terms, with its unlimited size, narrow impact, and imperviousness to verification, has "intern project" written all over it; you've got nothing for the intern to do, why not have her update the street terms for drugs? "Seriously, we need more about crystal meth. I hear that's big now." A partial list:
- Abandominiums: Abandoned row houses where drugs are used
- Author: Doctor who writes illegal prescriptions
- Cabbage head: An individual who will use or experiment with any kind of drug
- Chasing the tiger: To smoke heroin
- Dinosaurs: Populations of heroin users in their forties and fifties
- Flame cooking: Smoking cocaine base by putting the pipe over a stove flame
- Happy stick: Marijuana and PCP combination
- Ice cream habit: Occasional use of drugs
- Junkie kits: Glass pipe and copper mesh
- Kiddie dope: Prescription drugs
- Lipton Tea: Poor quality drugs
- Mighty white: A form of crack cocaine that is hard, white, and pure
- Nickelonians: Crack addicts
- Old navy: Heroin
- Panic: Drugs not available
- Rock star: Female who trades sex for crack or money to buy crack; a person who uses rock cocaine
- Sextasy: Ecstasy used with Viagra
- Tecatos: Hispanic heroin addict
- Tweaker: Crack user looking for drugs on the floor after a police raid
- Woola blunt: Marijuana and heroin combination
View the full 38 pages of street terms here (pdf).
'Thank you, Dr. Bloomquist'
They still manage to put together 'info-paks' with acertain gonzo-esque quality... don't you think??
damn, if they actually knew what the hell they were doing or saying, I'd start to worry a lot more about what these folks were up to... & considering their international 'successes' at criminalizing DNA, personal choice of vice & privacy rights; & militarizing a trade as old as humankind...
...they're already damned scary
selections from Terry Gilliam's adaptation of the 'District Attorney Convention on Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs' moments:
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DR. BLOOMQUIST
Now, there are four states of being in the cannabis, or marijuana, society:
Cool, Groovy, Hip, and Square. The square is seldom if ever cool. He is not "with it," that is, he doesn't know "what's happening." But if he manages to figure it out, he moves up a notch to "hip."
DUKE
We need that acid now.
DR. GONZO
(passing it to him)
No shit.
...
DR. BLOOMQUIST
And if he can bring himself to approve of what is happening, he becomes "groovy." After that, with much luck and perseverance, he can rise to the rank of "cool." A "cool guy," as he's then called, will use the slang of the Drug Culture. He will call the reefer butt a "roach," because it resembles
a cockroach. He will call sunglasses "tea shades."
...
DR. GONZO
I'll be down in the casino. I know a hell of a lot better ways to waste my time than listening to this bullshit.
...
COP IN BACK
Down in front!
DR. GONZO
Fuck you!
He stumbles from the room. DUKE turns his attention back to
DR. BLOOMQUIST...
DUKE V/O
It was clear we'd stumbled into a prehistoric gathering.
DR. BLOOMQUIST
...about these LSD flashbacks, the patient never knows: he thinks it's all over and he gets himself straightened out for SlX months, and then, darn it. the whole trip comes back on him.
DUKE V/O
This is dangerous gibberish.
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on some level, I have to wonder who they 'source' for their insider tips.
Methinks, whoever it is, somebody is laughing their ass off.
perspective, people.
Perspective.
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The lame leading the hip? Again?
Wow, this reminds me allot of rainy days in gym class, when the 1960's drug scare films would come out of the closet and be shown to us in lieu of anything truly interesting on the subject. I was the long haired kid that sat in the back. When the film was over, my coach would always, I swear to God, ALWAYS, pipe up real loud: "Anything to add to that, Doc?".
The films were the ones where the girl in the fake hippie outfit and face paint would invariably smoke some minuscule amount of bad weed and then hold her hand over the stove flame while mumbling something like: "Pretty flowers". While we heads were laughing so hard we had to hold our sides.
"If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep." -Frank Zappa (Who didn't take drugs, period)
-Doc
Reefer Madness
Well Kiddies. While you were out of it, the grumps invaded. They are most certainly square. Never will acknowledge that they are anything but square, flag adorned undies and all. Oh to go back to 1967, the summer of love. Republican party got the idea for the term War on Drugs from a Readers Digest article in the summer of 1968. Richard Nixon ran for president on a platform, and his administration put together a Federal Drug Department to deal with the country's miscreants. We all know what has transpired since then. Toto I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, now if I could just find those ruby slippers.
armedandticklish
Gee, do I have to wait before opperating the heavy equipment?
Lets get this straight--once big Pharma was allowed to put out commercials, the drug policy had to tighten up. Who is going to take prozac with a booster of abilify if they are happy smoking a joint (that would be a marijuana cigarette for those who didn't download the definitions yet!). Face it, once big Pharm got on the assembly line, the war on drugs was less about moralizing Rockefeller types and an insistence from the aspirin lobby to make sure the competition didn't get a level playing field. Because remember--more people overdosed on WATER last year than marijuana--not the sort of information the ONDCP is going to provide.
Frank
Hire Me
As an old hippie, I can turn them on to all the old slang.
Ever heard of Gainsville Green?
sinsemilla
"Sinsemilla" WAS used widely as a name for pot at one time. It comes straight from the Spanish: "sin"-"without" and "semilla"-"seed."
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Back in the day, we smoked good old Mexican leaf -- and every baggie came with hefty stems and seeds, seeds, seeds. (Boy! were stems a crappy smoke! Remember that ole sad song? "She left me ... and I'm down to stems and seeds again.")
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Back when Jim, Jimmy,Janice, etc., were still putting out albums, cleaning your dope by hand was part of the ritual of rolling up. With the latest of their vinyl LP's on the record player (33 1/3 RPM) we'd prop the album sleeve against our knees and slowly drop the crushed smokeables onto the slope. The seeds bounced and the leaf stayed. Then in a slow, lazy rhythm (as I recall it) we repeated the action until all the seeds had rolled to the bottom. Much hilarity ensued.
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Those were slower times, I guess, but I'll never forget what I can remember of them.
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Sinsemilla (nowadays a.k.a. "bud") was the first great leap for mankind toward our modern strains of mumbler.
indir
dr.ganzo are amazing
Dont worry, be hippie!
Dont worry, be hippie!
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