Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Drug Type: Opium

STREET TERM	DEFINITION
A-bomb	Marijuana cigarette with heroin or opium
Ah-pen-yen	Opium
Aunti	Opium
Aunti Emma	Opium
Back jack	Injecting opium; to inject a drug
Big O	Opium
Black	Marijuana; opium; methamphetamine
Black hash	Opium mixed with hashish
Black pill	Opium pill
Black Russian	Opium mixed with hashish
Black stuff	Heroin; opium
Buddha	Potent marijuana spiked with opium
Chandoo/chandu	Opium
Chillum	An object used to smoke opium, hashish, and marijuana
Chinese molasses	Opium
Chinese tobacco	Opium
Chocolate	Marijuana; opium; amphetamine
Cruz (Spanish)	Opium from Veracruz, Mexico
Dopium	Opium
Dover's deck	Opium
Dover's powder	Opium
Dream gun	Opium
Dream stick	Opium
Dreams	Opium
Easing powder	Opium
Fi-do-nie	Opium
Gee	Opium
God's medicine	Opium
Goma (Spanish)	Black tar heroin plus opium
Gondola	Opium
Gong	Marijuana; opium
Goric	Opium
Great tobacco	Opium
Gum	Opium; methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)
Guma	Opium
Hard stuff	Heroin; opium
Hocus	Marijuana; opium
Hop/hops	Opium
Indonesian bud	Marijuana; opium
Joy plant	Opium
Midnight oil	Opium
Mira (Spanish)	Opium
Mud	Heroin plus opium
O	Opium
O.P.	Opium
Ope	Opium
Pen yan	Opium
Pin gon	Opium
Pin yen	Opium
Pox	Opium
Skee	Opium
Tar	Crack and heroin smoked together; heroin; opium
Toxy	Opium
Toys	Opium
When-shee	Opium
Yen Shee Suey	Opium wine
Ze	Opium
Zero	Opium

Last Updated: April 6, 2005

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