Sunday, January 18, 2004

BOOMER QUIZ, WHYDYA THINK THEY CALL IT DOPE, ANSWERS

("Trust" painted by Grace Slick)

DRUGS

Boomers are the drug generation. Below is a list of drug nicknames used primarily during the 1960s and 1970s. Match each of them to one of the six main drugs of choice used during that era: Marijuana, amphetamines, LSD, psilocybin, heroin, or amyl nitrate. (Cocaine and crack became easily available somewhat later.)

MARIJUANA
Dope
Maui Wowee
Acapulco Gold
Roach
Toke
Bogart
Brick
Bong
Doobie
Aunt Mary
Ganja
Homegrown
Reefer
Rainy Day Woman
Sinsemilla
Texas tea
Weed
Alice B. Toklas (brownie)


LSD (LYSERGIC ACID DIETHYLAMIDE)
Acid
California sunshine
Cube
Paper-dot hit
Electric Kool Aid
Mellow yellow
Orange barrels
Strawberry fields
Superman
Window pane
Speedball


PSILOCYBIN/PEYOTE
Peyote
Shrooms
Silly putty
Simple Simon


AMPHETAMINES
Bennies
Black beauties
Truck drivers
Footballs
(DRINAMYL) AMPHETAMINES
Dexys
Purple Hearts


AMYL NITRATE
Poppers
Amies
Locker room

HEROIN
Aries
Horse
Blow
Smack
Dooley
Lady
Mojo
Skag

2 comments:

little gator said...

"bogart" is a verb, not a drug. It is used to acuse someone of hogging a joint or pipe, but it's not the drug, it's what one might to with it.

It's just as accurate to accuse someone of bogarting a shared bowl of potato chips.


The classic explanation is that Humphrey Bogart always seemed to have a cigaret in his hand ion many of his movies. No hogging their, as it was his personal smoke.

BUtif someone is passing around a shared smoke, then to "bogart" means ot hog it as if it was yours alone.

Og course, there's no question which drug the word is associated with.

letsdance said...

Shocking! How could you know so many slang words for drugs??
BTW, Mary Jane for marijuana.
Jan