Street Slang for Drugs

Just about all illegal drugs have various types of street names that are commonly referred to by drug users.

Below are some of the most common drug slang terms or drug street names:

STREET NAMES AND SLANG FOR STIMULANTS

Cocaine
Coke, Snow, Nose Candy, Flake, Blow, Big C, Lady, White, and Snowbirds, Powder, Freeze, Happy Dust, Mama Coca, Mojo, Monster, Pimp, Shot, Smoking Gun,Sugar,Sweet Stuff, White Powder

Crack Cocaine
Crack, Rock, Freebase, Cookie, Base,Beat, Blast, Casper, Chalk, Devil Drug, Gravel, Hardball, Hell, Kryptonite, Lover, Moonrocks, Rock, Scrabble, Stones, Tornado

Amphetamines
Speed, Uppers, Ups, Black beauties, Pep pills, Co-pilots, Bumblebees, Hearts, Benzedrine, Dexedrine, Footballs, and Biphetamine

Methamphetamines
Crank, Crystal meth, Crystal methadrine, and Speed, Beannies, blue devils, CR, Fast, Granulated Orange, Ice, Meth, Mexican Crack, Pink, Rock, Speckled Birds, Tina, Yellow Powder, Jump, Fast Forward

Additional Stimulants- Ritalin, Cylert, Preludin, Didrex, Pre-State, Voranil, Sandrex, and Plegine
Crackers, One and Ones, Pharming, Poor Man's Heroin, R-ball, Ritz, Ants, Set, Skippy, Speedball, Vitamin R, R-Ball, West Cost, Bathtub Speed, Cat, Gagers, Go-Fast, Goob, Qat, Slick Superspeed, Star, the R, Wild Cat, Wonder Star, Grade Uppers, Study Vitamins,

STREET NAMES AND SLANG FOR HALLUCINOGENS

Marijuana
Pot, Reefer, Grass, Weed, Dope, Ganja, Mary Jane, or Sinsemilla, Urb, Aunt Mary, Baby, Bobby, Boom, Chira, Chronic, Ditch, Greens, Hash, Herb, Nigra, Rip, Root, Skunk, Stack, Torch, Zambi

Hashish
Hash, Shish, Kif, Charas, Nup, Finger, Candy Bar, Surf Board, Patties

Mescaline and Peyote
Mesc, Buttons, and Cactus, Chief, Love Trip, Mescal, Mezc, Cactus Buttons, Moon, Peyote, Topi, Cactus Head, Love Buttons

Psilocybin (Shrooms)
Magic Mushrooms, Boomers, God's Flesh, Little Smoke, Magic Mushroom, Mexican Mushrooms, Musk, Sherm, Silly Putty,

LSD -(Lysergic acid diethylamide)
Acid, Microdot, White lightning, Blue heaven, and Sugar Cubes, Bartman, Bart Simpson, Gelatin Chips, Windowpanes, Blotter, Paper Blotter,Boomers, Heavely Blue, Hippie, Purple Heart, Superman, Zen, Yellow, California Sunshine, Golden Dragon

PCP (Phencyclidine)

Angel Dust, Belladonna, Black Whack, CJ, cliffhanger, Crystal Joint, Detroit Pink, Elephant Tranquilizer, Hog, Magic, Peter Pan, Sheets, Soma, TAC, Trank, White Horizon, Zoom

STREET NAMES AND SLANG FOR DEPRESSANTS

Barbiturates
Downers, Barbs, Blue Devils, Red Devils, Yellow Jackets,
Yellows, Nembutal, Tuinals, Seconal, and Amytal

Methaqualone,
Quaaludes, Ludes, Sopors, Peaches, Blues

Tranquilizers -Valium, Librium, Serax, Equanil, Miltown, and Tranxene
Stumblers, Yellow jackets, Tootsies, Valley Girl, Goofballs, Benzos, Downers, Stupefy, Tranx

STREET NAMES AND SLANG FOR NARCOTICS

Heroin
Smack, Horse, Mud, Brown sugar, Junk, Black tar, and Big H, Aunt Hazel, Black Pearl, Brown Sugar, Capital H, Charley, China White, Dope, Good Horse, H, Hard Stuff, Hero, Little Boy, Mud, Perfect High, Heroina, Smack, Stuff, Tar

Morphine
Pectoral syrup

Opium
Paregoric, Dover's Powder, Parepectolin, Aunti, Big O, Black Stuff, Chinese Tobacco, Chocolate, Dopium, Dover's Deck, Dream Gun, Hard Stuff, Hocus, Joy Plant, O, Ope, Pin, Yen, Toxy, Zero

Codeine
Empirin compound with codeine, Tylenol with codeine,
Codeine in cough medicine

Meperidine
Pethidine, Demerol, Mepergan

Fentanyl (Narcotic)
Synthetic heroin, China white, Apache, China Girl, China Town, Dance Fever, Goodfellas, Great Bear, Jackpot, King Ivory, Murder 8, Poison, Tango, Cash, TNT

Meperidine (Narcotic)
MPTP (New heroin), MPPP, synthetic heroin