Last updated on June 19th, 2023
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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