Why is heroin called "boy" and cocaine called "girl"?

[FunctionlJnkieGal]

Just wondering.

 

[Methacodone]

I thought Heroin was nicknamed Lady H, the Her, etc.. ?

 

[EphemeralOutlet141]

They go together so well.

(Not implying anything about gay people, which I feel like I have to mention lest someone take it the wrong way.)

 

[Help?!?!]

All dealers are sercretly pedophiles.... If not it'd be "man" "woman".

 

[Tubbs]

I think it's the generalization that men like downers, and women like uppers, which isn't really even that true.

 

[Tranced]

^Sounds about right.

I've never heard this, but people frequently attribute male and female qualities, or names, to drugs. Especially feminine.

MDMA = Molly, Eve, Mandy
LSD = Lucy
MDA = Adam
Salvia divinorum = Sally, Maria
Cannabis = Mary Jane

 

[Tubbs]

Right around here we call heroin Ron, short for the old hood pronunciation herron.

 

[falsifiedhypothesi]

you done fucked up Her-A-Ron

 

[Tubbs]

St louis man, we've got an accent lol.

 

[Wilson Wilson]

"White girl" has been slang for coke since forever. The white part is pretty self-explanatory but I'm not sure why girl, possibly because drug slang tends to refer to drugs as girls in general? Like MDMA is Mandy/Molly, LSD is Lucy, weed is Mary Jane, etc.

No idea why heroin is "boy" though. Possibly because it's brown so it's just the opposite of "white girl"? Just a pure guess though.

 

[Beefy]

Yeah, White girl or white lady has been said since the 70s I think for coke. But good question

 

[Burnt Offerings]

Meth = "fast", hair-on = "slow"

Those are the biggies where I'm from