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Does it annoy you when some ppl refer to marijuana as "dope"?

It doesn't annoy me as much as it confuses me. Like if someone says it in a context where they are describing or noting how fucked up someone is and you are not sure if they mean marijuana or heroin.

Just for the record, one day at work I jokingly used "dope" to refer to marijuana at work because we were talking about weed for some reason. Everyone looked at me like some square, who knew nothing about drugs. I just sat there in my mind thinking 'haha, I probably have done more drugs than all 6 other people in this room'. Hell I was high on real "dope" and probably ate some xanax the day I said that.
 
Ajpadilla said:
Yes. I've always thought that. Dope is meth. Period. People need to get with the times. The word dope use to mean weed decades ago but the word since evolved to a new meaning. Hittin the pookie! Even the cops refer to meth as dope.
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That is very region specific actually. In the north east united states dope pretty unmistakably refers to heroin, although it is even not used that much that. There is not a lot of meth here but its never "dope", usually just "meth, tina" or "ice."
I guess its pretty commonly meth on the west coast though…. from reading this thread.

Its a dumb term for any drug in my opinion just sounds ugly.
 
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Fortunately nobody uses "dope" as a term referring to weed, over here in the UK there are a few fancy slang terms for it but "dope" isnt one of them./
 
I've only seen very old people like people who are in their 70s or 80s refer to herb as "dope", or some will use "dope" to mean smokable forms of heroin, or meth.
 
plmar said:
Fortunately nobody uses "dope" as a term referring to weed, over here in the UK
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You mean nobody in your narrow circle.

I'm in the UK.

TheLostBoys said:
I hear a lot of the older people refer to weed as dope & I laugh.
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Good for you. Because language was only invented in the last few years right, so your terms must be the exclusively correct ones.

I've smoked dope, and all my friends have smoked dope, for the last 35 years. I also have friends who take dope (heroin). Somehow we manage not to have a civil war or get patronising about whose term is 'correct'.

What a thread. 8(
 
Dope to me is any drug that is dopaminergic, especially when it directly releases dopamine between the synapses as a result of agonism or w/e. So no, it doesn't bother me as in my books it is "dope"
 
Yeah I think it's stupid when people call weed "dope." I've never even heard my parents say that, they always called weed "pot" or "reefer" lol. Dope is crystal meth so that's what I think of whenever I hear that word. Everyone here calls meth dope, it's one of the most popular names for it along with shit, shards, tweak, and crys.
 
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Dope is SMACK and Dope is Meth, sometimes Dope is Crack, but crack already has a cool name, so lets leave it to tweak and smack, the stoners have the advantage of calling their DOC a medicine.
 
Don't you know what miracle medicine smack is? That moment you get it into yourself when withdrawing, doesn't compare to any other meds.
 
Turning to dope in its specific drug sense; in 1886 (according to Green’s Dictionary of Slang), we first heard of a dope fiend – a drug user. A few years later, we find dope referring to opium or a morphine derivative. The link between the syrup and the drug may not be immediately obvious, but it relates the ‘the thick treacle-like preparation used in opium-smoking’; as early as 1872, dope had referred to ‘a preparation, mixture, or dug which is not specifically named’. In 1933 we encounter dope addict. Dope eventually stood on its own, coming to mean any drug (1900) or medicine (1902). Dope came to refer specifically to marijuana only in 1950 (according to the Historical Dictionary of American Slang); to the extent that dope is used today to refer to a drug, it most commonly means heroin or another opiate. In this general vein, dope has long been used as a verb, first meaning to poison (1862 in HDAS) and then slightly later to administer a stimulant or sedative to a racehorse. The meaning has broadened in recent years to include the use of any banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs by athletic competitors, human or not.

A fourth sense is more than a hundred years old. We find dope sheet meaning a listing of inside information, usually on a horse race, in 1900 (HDAS). In 1901, dope is recorded as simply meaning inside information, a sense which persists today.
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Source : http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/06/dope-etymology-history/

Blank said:
Dope to me is any drug that is dopaminergic, especially when it directly releases dopamine between the synapses as a result of agonism or w/e. So no, it doesn't bother me as in my books it is "dope"
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LSD is an agonist at D1,D2,D3 and D4 Receptors. Heroin doesnt directly interact with dopamine at all (only indirectly via mu-opioid receptor activation). THC doesnt directly interact with Dopamine either. Now im confused
 
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