Drug Slang

Amphetamine

  • annie
  • billy
  • speed
  • speedfreak
  • whizz  

Cannabis/Marijuana

  • bhang
  • biftah
  • black
  • blaze – to smoke marijuana
  • blow
  • blunt
  • chong it – to smoke constantly and heavily
  • doobie
  • dope
  • draw
  • ganja
  • grass
  • hash
  • hashcake
  • hash-head
  • henry – an eighth in weight – from Henry VIII
  • hot knives
  • joint
  • Leb
  • Mary Jane
  • Mary Warner
  • puff
  • reefer
  • roach – the butt or filter of a marijuana/cannabis cigarette
  • skins – cigarette papers
  • skunk
  • spacecake
  • teenth – a sixteenth in weight
  • Thai sticks
  • weed
  • wacky backy  

Cocaine/Freebased Cocaine

  • blow
  • Bolivian marching powder
  • C
  • charlie
  • coke
  • crack
  • kryptonite
  • nose candy
  • snow  

Heroin

  • brown sugar
  • dope
  • H
  • horse
  • scag
  • skag
  • smack  

Injecting

  • jack up
  • shoot up
  • the works  

Intoxicated

  • blunted
  • brained
  • e’d up
  • high as a kite
  • loaded
  • mashed
  • off one’s box/chump/face/head/tree
  • out of one’s box/chump/face/head/tree
  • shedded
  • shit faced
  • sledge
  • stoned
  • trashed
  • trolleyed
  • wrecked  

LSD

  • acid
  • acid head – user of LSD
  • blotter
  • tab
  • trip  

MDMA

  • bean – a pill
  • eckey
  • ecstacy
  • gary – rhyming slang on Gary Ablett
  • little – a pill
  • xtc  

Miscellaneous

  • blowback
  • bogart
  • bomb – powdered drug contained within a cigarette paper
  • cane it
  • chasing the dragon – smoking heroin/crack
  • chemicals
  • cold turkey
  • comedown
  • drop
  • gear
  • hit
  • junkie/junky
  • pill-head
  • rush
  • skin up
  • stash
  • strap up
  • strap up a fatty
  • tab – tablet
  • toke
  • wrap – a small paper envelope containing drugs  

Other Drugs

  • angel dust – PCP
  • barbs – barbiturates
  • crystal – methamphetamine
  • GBH – GHB (gamma hydroxy butyrate)
  • jellies – temazepam
  • K – ketamine
  • little pointy friends – magic mushrooms
  • mushies – magic mushrooms
  • poppers – amyl/butyl nitrate
  • shrooms – magic mushrooms
  • special K – ketamine
  • tranks – tranquillizers