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Some say tomato, some say tomahto. I like potato, you like potahto. You say cocaine, he says…Aunt Nora? That’s right, Aunt Nora. And that’s just one of the street names for cocaine. And there are many.

Most undercover cops will tell you that their assignment is sometimes a strange one, because they not only have to learn to “walk the walk,” they also have to learn an entirely new language—the street drug language. If the UC (undercover) doesn’t use the correct terminology for a drug in specific area then his cover is almost certain to be blown. Therefore, it is imperative that the officer study his subjects and their mannerisms and speech before approaching them. Can you imagine what would happen if an undercover officer walked up to a drug runner and asked, “May I please purchase a large quantity of d-lysergic acid diethylamide? I believe you cats call it acid out here on the mean streets.” Yeah, that would work…

So, to help your characters fit in a little better than our guy above, here are a few street names for, or relating to, illegal drugs.

Cocaine

Aunt Nora

Angie

Aspirin (powder cocaine)

Balling (hiding packaged cocaine in body cavities).

Base crazies -desperately and frantically searching on hands and knees for small amounts of spilled cocaine or bits of crack cocaine.

Behind the Scale – selling or packaging cocaine.

Beiging – altering cocaine with chemicals to make it appear of a higher quality, or purity.

Bernie, Bernie’s flakes, Bernie’s dust

Birdie powder

Blast

Blizzard

Blow

Booster – inhaling cocaine

Brick – one kilo of cocaine

C

Caine

California cornflakes

Candy

Carrie

Cecil

Chippy

Coconut

Crack

Crack cocaine

Mo

Monster

Witch

Zip

Marijuana

African

African Black

Airplane

Angola

Ashes

Baby

Bale

Bamba

Bammy

Bar

Bash

Black

BoBo

Boom

Broccoli

Catnip

Cest

Chiba chiba

Chunky

Clam Bake – sitting inside a small enclosed space ( a car, etc.) while smoking marijuana

Don Juan

Firewood

Giggle smoke

Greens

Jane

Macaroni

Mow the grass – smoke marijuana

Root

Salad

Oxycontin and Oxycodone

Hillbilly heroin

Cotton

OC

Pills

Rohypnol

Forget Me Pill

Lunch money drug

Mexican Valium

Roaches

Roofies

Rope

Ruffles

Wolfies

Methamphetamine

Beannies

Blade

Bling

Boo

Chalk (also refers to cocaine)

Chrome

Clear

Cinnamon

Crank

Cris

Crystal

Hot ice

Meth

Pink

Pink elephants

Rock

Sparkle

Tick tick

Tina

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Cops are called names all the time. And those names are sometimes not so nice. But when a suspect calls them devils because he actually thinks he’s seeing two very real demons coming for him, well, that’s a different story. And that’s exactly what happened in Mississippi a few weeks ago when two sheriff’s deputies attempted to arrest a man. He became combative, claiming his was fighting two devils. In fact, he was so out of control that one of the deputies was injured during the scuffle.

Another Mississippi man, Neil Brown, used a skinning knife to repeatedly slash his face and stomach.

Neil Brown points to the scars he received from self-inflicted knife wounds while high on bath salts

A 21-year-old Louisiana man cut his own throat before blasting himself with a shotgun, ending his life. And it’s quite possible that the death of Tippah County Mississippi Deputy Sheriff Dewayne Arlyn Crenshaw is related to these bizarre incidents. How? The man who gunned down Deputy Crenshaw was believe to have been under the influence of bath salts, as were the others. And the list of odd and devastating events is long and growing longer every day.

Bath salts, aka Uncle Charlie, Ivory Snow, White Lightening, Red Dove, Bliss, Vanilla Sky, and Ivory Wave, are really a synthetic stimulant containing mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), chemicals that are readily found in many plant foods. Since the main ingredient in the drug, cathinone, is derived from a plant, and the end product is not intended for human consumption, there is no government regulation.

Users/abusers of bath salts either smoke, snort, or inject the powder, which affects neurotransmitters in the brain. As a result, the user experiences  extremely vivid hallucinations and, unfortunately, paranoia and suicidal thoughts. The drug causes the user to want more and more (a three or four day binge, like meth and crack users often experience), resulting in increased calls to poison control centers from people needing immediate care from overdosing. It is believed that the death of a Mississippi woman can be connected to an overdose of bath salts.

The effects are so devastating that state lawmakers are considering banning the drug. In fact, Louisiana has already outlawed the chemicals by emergency order.

Bath salts are sold legally over the internet, and in many convenience stores for as little as $20.