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Black Tar, Hard Candy, Dragon Rock – Where Does Heroin Slang Come From?

Heroin has been around for a while, as it was first synthesized from morphine in 1874. Is natural for heroin’s street names to develop and change over time. There are different influencers when it comes to heroin street names. These can be based on its:

  1. Physical appearance
  2. Effect on users
  3. To describe the combination of heroin and other drugs

1 Based on its physical appearance:

Commonly heroin is portrayed as white, however, that’s not at all the case. There is black tar heroin, white heroin and brown heroin.

Names for Black tar heroin:

  • Black Pearl
  • Black Sheep
  • Black Tar
  • Dirt

Names for white heroin:

  • Salt
  • White Junk
  • White Nurse
  • White Stuff

Names for brown heroin:

  • Brown Crystal
  • Brown Rhine
  • Brown Sugar
  • Diesel

*Usually brown heroin is less potent than white heroin, as it is created in the first step of purification. Is usually smoked as it doesn’t dissolve very well.

II. Based on its effect on consumers:

  • Dead on Arrival
  • Hairy
  • Hard Candy
  • Hard One
  • Hell Dust
  • Joy Flakes
  • Nice and Easy

* Short-term desired effects of heroine include: a quick feeling of euphoria and warmth. Combined with feelings of heaviness, numbness and relaxedness. Heroin was derived from morphine, so it shares an analgesic effect.

III. Heroine mixed with other drugs:

  • Dynamite: heroin and cocaine
  • Primo or dragon rock: heroin and crack
  • Screwball: heroin and meth
  • H-bomb: heroin and ecstasy
  • Neon nod: heroin and LSD (acid)
  • Chocolate bars: heroin and Xanax
  • Atom bomb or A-bomb: heroin and marijuana
  • El diablo: heroin, cocaine, and marijuana
  • LBJ: heroin, LSD, and PCP

Street dealers don’t necessarily use the above terms. It’s always better to test your drugs.
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Drugs and Their “Street Names”

People are creative. Nicknames for drugs pop up over time. We’ve compiled a list of street names for some common drugs.

MDMA

Most commonly referred as Molly, which is slang for “molecular” . This street name often refers to the allegedly pure crystalline powder form of MDMA.

Street names:

  • Molly
  • Ecstasy
  • E
  • X
  • XTC
  • Rolls
  • Beans
  • Adam
  • Mandy
  • Biscuit
  • Clarity
  • Disco Biscuit
  • Eve
  • Go
  • Hug Drug
  • Lover’s Speed
  • Peace
  • STP

LSD

Best known as Acid, taken from its chemical name Lysergic acid diethylamide.

Street names:

  • Acid
  • Alice
  • Angels in a Sky
  • Black star
  • Blotter
  • Boomers
  • Cubes
  • Dots
  • Elvis
  • Golden dragon
  • Mellow Yellow
  • Microdot
  • Paper Acid
  • Pink Robots
  • Superman
  • Twenty-five (25)
  • Window Pane
  • Yellow Sunshine
  • Ying Yang

Cocaine

Best known as Coca or Coke, as the drug comes from the leaves of the Andean Erythroxylum coca plant.

Street names:

  • Coca
  • Coke
  • Blow
  • Bump
  • C / Big C
  • Snow
  • Crack
  • Heaven Dust / Dust
  • Line
  • Powder
  • Gold dust
  • Snow White
  • Flake
  • Nose Candy
  • Pearl
  • Rail
  • Sneeze
  • Sniff
  • Speedball
  • Toot
  • White Rock

Meth/Amphetamine

Commonly known as Meth or Speed, term that comes directly from the energizing effect of the drug.

Street names:

  • Meth
  • Speed
  • Crystal
  • Glass
  • Crank
  • Tweak
  • Yaba
  • Ice
  • Chalk
  • Crank
  • Wash
  • Trash
  • Dunk
  • Scooby Snax
  • Pookie
  • Cookies
  • Christina
  • White Cross
  • Cotton Candy
  • Rocket Fuel

Heroin

Best known as Dope, which originally came from Dutch doop, meaning “thick sauce”. Opium is also thick and sticky, which is why eventually Heroin was called Dope. Other drugs have also been called Dope (Marijuana and Cocaine), but today is most commonly use to refer to Heroin.

Street names:

  • Dope
  • Horse
  • Junk
  • Smack
  • H / Big H
  • Skag
  • White Nurse
  • China White
  • Brown
  • Beast
  • Hero
  • Boy / White Boy
  • Chiva
  • Mexican Mud

See how these names came about: Where heroin street names come from.

Ketamine

Commonly referred as Special K, which simply comes from its name.

Street names:

  • Special K
  • K
  • Kit Kat
  • Cat Valium
  • Super Acid
  • Special La Coke
  • Purple
  • Jet
  • Vitamin K
  • Ket

Marijuana / Cannabis

Marijuana was the name to describe the drug in Mexico in the 1840s. Later it was popularized by the US to stoke an anti-Mexican sentiment, which is why a lot of people avoid using it. Today is most commonly referred as “Weed“, which came from “locoweed”, a specie of plant that grows in the southwest and northern Mexico.

Street names

  • Weed
  • Herb
  • Pot
  • Grass
  • Bud
  • Dope
  • Grass
  • Joint
  • Reefer
  • Ganja
  • Hash
  • Chronic
  • Mary Jane
  • Boobie
  • Bhang

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