Street name

A street name is a colloquial name given to a drug other than its popular or chemical names. Street names for drugs change from place to place and time to time, and no absolute reliance should ever be placed on them.

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Amphetamine

Billy - generally Amphetamine Sulphate
Speed - generally Amphetamine Sulphate
Whiz - generally Amphetamine Sulphate
Dexies - from the brand name Dexedrine or the chemical name Dexamphetamine sulphate,

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Anabolic steroids

Iron Brew - steroids such as Durabolin, Stanozolol, Dianabol; this should not be confused with the soft drink Irn Bru.

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Amyl nitrite

Animal - play on 'Amyl'
Liquid gold - descriptive
Poppers - may be any of Amyl nitrite, Alkyl nitrites, or Butyl nitrite

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Benzodiazepines

Downers - generic street name for Benzodiazepines
Bennies - generic street name for Benzodiazepines
Vallies - brand name Valium, chemical name Diazepam.
Moggies - brand names: Mogodon, Nitrados, Remnos, Unisomnia, chemical name Nitrazepam.
Rugby balls - chemical name Temazepam
Terms - chemical name Temazepam
Jellies - chemical name Temazepam
Forget-me-pill - chemical name Flunitrazepam
La roche - chemical name Flunitrazepam
Roofies - chemical name Flunitrazepam
Rophies - chemical name Flunitrazepam
Ropies - chemical name Flunitrazepam
Ruffies - chemical name Flunitrazepam
Roche - chemical name Flunitrazepam
Roachies - chemical name Flunitrazepam
R-2 - chemical name Flunitrazepam
Mexican valium - chemical name Flunitrazepam
Rope - chemical name Flunitrazepam
Rib - chemical name Flunitrazepam

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Cannabis

Black
Blaze
Blow
Bomb
Cheeba
Cron
Chronic
Dank
Dope
Draw
Grass
Hash
Herb
Ish
La-lala
Mary Jane
Pot
Puff
Shit
Skunk
Smoke
Wacky tobacky
Weed
Yaa
Yameen

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Cocaine

Blow
Booger sugar
Charlie
Coke - shortened form of cocaine
Snow - cocaine as a powder is said to resemble snow
Powder - self descriptive
White lady

fuck candy

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Crack cocaine

Crack - from the noise it makes when it is smoked
Freebase - technically the description of an action of taking crack cocaine, but also used as a name for the drug
Rocks - descriptive

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LSD

Acid
Acid tabs
Tabs - LSD is sometimes blotted onto sheets of paper, cut up into little squares called tabs
Trips - note than an LSD experience is known as a trip; being on LSD is known as tripping
Trade names - e.g. Strawberries; tabs are often illustrated, and specific batches named after the illustration or colour of paper used.

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MDMA

Ecstacy - perhaps not considered a "street name", because it is also the common name.
Dennis the Menace - capsules with red and black stripes, from the children's comic character Dennis the Menace who wore a red and black striped top
Doves - some tablets are white and stamped with a dove shape
E - shortened version of Ecstasy
M25s - named after a story that early MDMA tablets were produced in a utility vehicle driving round the M25 motorway
Mitzies - shortened version of Mitsubishi: the company logo is stamped on the tablets
Molly - pure version of MDMA
Pills - common street name in the UK, because MDMA is most commonly found in pill form
Roobarb and custard - characters from the children's TV series Roobarb
Other brand names such as Speckled Doves, New Yorkers, Mercedes, etc.

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Heroin

Dragon - when smoked, the thick smoke of heroin is said to resemble the tail of a dragon (hence 'chasing the dragon')
Golden brown - from the colour of heroin
H - shortened form of heroin
Horse
Smack - form the action of smacking the arm to produce a vein in which to inject the drug

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