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"Drug Slang of the Americas" (2022 ed.) — What is the slang in your area?

I don't know the slang here in southwestern New Mexico,which is probably the biggest barrier to me finding a connect.
Look at my post on Spanish-language slang I've heard in the Northwest, I've been told that many of the words are used in the Southwest as well. As far English goes, I'm not sure, but I imagine there is some overlap with other Western regions.
 
H-material,stuff,brown,herz,
Coke-white
Ex pills-candies
Amphetamines-Vitamins,Amphets
Meth-Piko,crystal
Methadone-Honey(but pronounced on my language-Med
Substitole-Soup(Supa)
Diazepam-diesels
Weed-Grass,(Treva),Ace,(Koz)Halva....in fact could be anything.The whole sentence is of importance...so the code word be understandable for those who knows
Gettin high-Up in the cherry(tree)
 
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I don't know the slang here in southwestern New Mexico,which is probably the biggest barrier to me finding a connect.
I spent the better part of a year in a micro hamlet in southwestern New Mexico, in 2020. I was 65 miles from Silver City, if you are familiar with that area. I’d anticipated being there 2 months tops, and then, COVID.
I don’t know what the local colloquialisms were for the various life enhancements I certainly could’ve used but never managed to find.
 
I spent the better part of a year in a micro hamlet in southwestern New Mexico, in 2020. I was 65 miles from Silver City, if you are familiar with that area. I’d anticipated being there 2 months tops, and then, COVID.
I don’t know what the local colloquialisms were for the various life enhancements I certainly could’ve used but never managed to find.
I lived in Lordsburg for a while. It was easy to find any DOC there because the town is 80% users of some kind. Now I'm in Deming and everyone looks at you like you're DEA if you mention anything.
 
I’m quite familiar with Deming, New Mexico!
Deming is home to the Banded Rock Rattlesnake, a really lovely, smaller-sized pit viper that lives in the Florida Mountain Range. It produces a hemotoxin, unlike many rattlesnakes that inject neurotoxins. I never saw a Banded Rock Rattlesnake when I visited Deming, though I was looking for one. I wouldn’t have picked it up, though.
All I brought home from my NM stay was a scorpion sting, and memories of a frightening encounter with a Texas Red-Headed Centipede, which has a nasty disposition, is extraordinarily large and looks like a monster from a 1960s Sci-Fi movie.
If I recall correctly, Lordsburg is a dry city I drove through that previously allowed drinking. There were several old bars that hadn’t been torn down or rebranded into new businesses. I recall seeing many cool old beer signs, like Hamm’s and Schlitz Beers.
 
For historical interest I'd like to contribute a few old - timer (around 1930s - 50s) jargon examples that I'm fond of :

- Chinese needlework/embroidery = track marks, also the handling/distribution of narcotics
- ice cream habit = weekend warrior
- beat the gong = to smoke opium
- bull horrors = delusions of persecution by the police on part of a cocaine user
- flea powder = fake drugs
- yenshee baby = a brick shit due to opium-induced constipation
 
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For the main stuff:

H- dope/bags/boy/horse
Coke- white/soft/yay/snow/ski/girl
Crack- hard/rock
Meth- tina/fast/crystal/Cristobal
Fentanyl- fetty
Ketamine- ket/kitty
Ecstacy (pill) - rolls/x/beans
Ecstacy(crystal) - molly/mol
Acid- paper/tabs/doses/tickets
30mg oxycodone- blues/30s/perc 30s
Dmt- deems/deemsters
Mushrooms - shrooms/boomers/caps
Xanax- bars/busses/xans
 
I'm hoping that a lot of people contribute words, so we get a broad sampling of current drug slang from across the Americas... Ideally, we'll see how language differs between social groups from the same city, states/provinces in the same country, and continents of the same hemisphere.

In that spirit, non-English drug slang you wish to post is more than welcome here. Any spoken language of the Western Hemisphere (past or present) is fair game... I'd be especially grateful for contributions by any of our very own Québécois(e), West Indian, and latinoamericano/a Bluelighters.

So, tell us... What's the drug slang like where you live right now? Hmm...?

Hmm—?!
I just found out bananas are hydro’s in jersey
 
I haven't been into street drugs much for a while. But I remember this:

Years ago when the standard amount of weed people bought was 1 ounce ($30), we called it a bag.
But if you were out in the country or up in the hills, locals might sell you a poke.

That always tickled me.
 
For historical interest I'd like to contribute a few old - timer (around 1930s - 50s) jargon examples that I'm fond of :

- Chinese needlework/embroidery = track marks, also the handling/distribution of narcotics
- ice cream habit = weekend warrior
- beat the gong = to smoke opium
- bull horrors = delusions of persecution by the police on part of a cocaine user
- flea powder = fake drugs
- yenshee baby = a brick shit due to opium-induced constipation
Smoking opium was also "kicking the gong around."
See the lyrics of Minnie the Moocher and other classics.
 
I haven't been into street drugs much for a while. But I remember this:

Years ago when the standard amount of weed people bought was 1 ounce ($30), we called it a bag.
But if you were out in the country or up in the hills, locals might sell you a poke.

That always tickled me.
Now that I think about it, some of the old school cats I used to hang out with talked about a one-, two-, three- or four-finger bag. As in you hold your finger(s) next to the bag to somehow measure how much was on it without knowing the weight. IIRC they called an oz a lid, and maybe that was a four finger bag. Not sure.

I think they did it this way back in the 1970s.
 
Now that I think about it, some of the old school cats I used to hang out with talked about a one-, two-, three- or four-finger bag. As in you hold your finger(s) next to the bag to somehow measure how much was on it without knowing the weight. IIRC they called an oz a lid, and maybe that was a four finger bag. Not sure.

I think they did it this way back in the 1970s.
Yeah, we normally dealt in 4-finger bags (full ounces). Sometimes, if short on cash, we'd get 2- or 3-finger bags.
Around here, a lid was half an ounce (2-finger bag, $15).

PS--- A nickel was a $5 bag, a dime was a $10 bag. The weight might vary depending on the quality of the weed, but nickel always meant $5 and dime always meant $10.
A joint would sell for 50 cents to $1.
 
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Yeah, we normally dealt in 4-finger bags (full ounces). Sometimes, if short on cash, we'd get 2- or 3-finger bags.
Around here, a lid was half an ounce (2-finger bag, $15).

PS--- A nickel was a $5 bag, a dime was a $10 bag. The weight might vary depending on the quality if the weed, but nickel always meant $5 and dime always meant $10.
A joint would sell for 50 cents to $1.
I was paying $125 for a 1/4 lb. In 1978 ,I’d roll up about 250 joints and sell them in my neighborhood as a teenager,I’d give people 6-$5 happily ,heavily seeded Mexican dirt weed…
 
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