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Drugs in Spain

Cocaine and Ecstacy are very popular but Marijuana is the most widely used drug throughout Spain because possessing a small amount for personal use is tolerated. In fact you can legally grow 3 cannabis plants for personal use. It is however illegal to buy or sell it, so it can be a little tricky to find. Use your common sense. Don't ever follow someone into an alleyway or down a back street to buy drugs. In fact it's not a good idea to buy them on the street at all. Safest way is to get to know the locals. It probably goes without saying but don't under any circumstances try and bring drugs into Spain with you. If you get stopped at the airport or border, you're screwed! Poppers are perfectly legal to posess. Generally the quality of the 'Chocolate' (Dope) which comes from Morocco is excellent, Go very easy on it. It can easily take you over the top if you're not accustomed to it's strength. With the exception of Ibiza, it is difficult in Spain to find any of the more exotic party drugs that are readily available in the UK. (Spain is the world's heaviest per capita user of Cocaine in the world!)

The following is purely FYI - Glossery of drug names & terms

Acid - LSD.
Acid head - User of LSD.
Airhead - Under the influence of Marijuana.
Amphetamines - Speed, crystal, crank, meth, black beauties, bennies, uppers, dexies, 357 magnums.
Angel dust - Phencyclidine or PCP.
Artillery - Equipment for shooting drugs.
Back-up - Permitting blood to back up into a syringe to ensure the needle is in a vein.
Bad trip - Unpleasant LSD experience.
Bag - Packet of drugs, usually a standard amount for sale.
Bag man - Person who transports money.
Balloon - Small amount of contained drugs.
Bang - To inject drugs.
Barbs - Barbiturates; downers, reds.
Bean - Capsules for drugs.
Beat - To cheat someone.
Bennies - Benzedrine; peaches.
Big C - Cocaine.
Big chief - Mescaline.
Bindle - A small packet of drug powder.
Black Beauties - Amphetamines.
Black Hollies - Amphetamines.
Black-out - Amnesia for events occurring while heavily intoxicated with alcohol, other sedative/hypnotic drugs.
Black Russian - Hashish.
Blasted - High on drugs.
Blaze - Marijuana.
Blotters - LSD.
Blow - Smoke Marijuana; sniff Cocaine.
Blue Devils - Amobarbital.
Blues - Valium.
Blunts - A cigar slit open and filled with marijuana.
Bombed out - Very much intoxicated by drugs.
Bombita - Mixture of Cocaine & Heroin.
Bong - A cylindrical water pipe for smoking drugs, especially Marijuana.
Brick - A kilogram (2.2 pounds) of tightly compacted Marijuana or Hashish.
Bring down - Come off a drug.
Broker - Go-between for a drug deal.
Buds - Marijuana.
Bummer - Bad experience with drugs.
Bundle - Multiple bags of a drug.
Burn - Cheated bv a pusher.
Burnout - Heavy user of drugs.
Buttons - Peyote or mushrooms.
Buzzed - Mildly intoxicated.
Cactus - Mescaline or Peyote.
Candy - Barbiturates or Cocaine.
Candyman - Drug supplier.
Cannabis - The correct name for Marijuana. Marijuana is a slang term which derived from Mexico in the 1930's.
Caps - Drug capsule.
Cartwheels - Amphetamines.
Charged up - Under the influence of drugs.
Chasing the dragon - A particular way of inhaling Heroin.
China White - A very pure white Heroin.
Chipping - Occasional use of drugs.
Chippy - Person who uses drugs infrequently.
Clean - Drug free; not having drugs in one's possession.
Coasting - Being high on drugs.
Cocaine - Coke, booth, blow, railers, snow, ringer, blast, white dust, ivory flakes, nose candy. In Spain it's usually called 'Coka'
Coke broke - Financially incapacitated from supporting Cocaine habit.
Cold turkey - Sudden withdrawal from drugs.
Colombo - Marijuana grown in Columbia.
Come down - The ending of a drug experience.
Connect - To purchase drugs.
Connection - Supplier of drugs.
Cooker - Usually a spoon or bottle cap used to heat drugs for injection.
Cop - To obtain drugs.
Cop-out - To evade an issue.
Crack - Cocaine prepared for smoking.
Crash - To sleep off the effects of drugs.
Crystals - Methamphetamine.
Cut - To adulterate drugs.
Cut out - To leave from someplace.
Dagga - South African word for Marijuana.
Dealer - Someone who sells illegal drugs.
Deck - A packet of drugs.
Dexies - Dexadrine, dex.
Dollies - Methadone.
Doobie - A Marijuana cigarette.
Dope - A general term for drugs of abuse.
Downs - Depressants such as Barbiturates, Tranquilizers.
Dried out - Having gone through a withdrawal program for drugs or alcohol.
Drop - To take a drugs orally; a place where money or drugs are left.
Druggie - A drug user or addict.
Drunk pills - Valium.
Dust - Drugs in powder form.
Dusting - Sprinkling a narcotic powder on another drug such as PCP on Marijuana.
Dynamite - High quality, potent drugs.
Easy score - Obtaining drugs without difficulty.
Ecstacy - MDMA, Methylenedioxymethamphetamine. Mitsubishi, Ferrari, Crown, Dove, Disco Biscuit, VW, Green Clover etc.
Eighth - One-eighth of a pound of drugs.
Elephant - PCP.
Experience - Trip on LSD.
Factory - Place where illicit drugs are prepared for sale.
Fix - An injection of drugs.
Flake -Cocaine.
Flashback - Recurrence of previous hallucinations.
Flea powder - Poor quality drugs .
Flip out - Become psychotic or irrational.
Flying - Under the influence of drugs.
Football - Amphetarnine.
Freak out - A bad trip; an unexpected reaction to a drug.
Freebase - Smoking Cocaine from a special water pipe.
Freeze - To renege on a drug transaction.
Front - To put money out before receiving the merchandise.
Ganja - The Jamaican word for Marijuana.
Get off - Feel a drug's effects.
Get on - Use drugs for the first time.
Gluey - A glue sniffer.
Gold - Marijuana, also called Acapulco.
Goods - Drugs.
Goofballs - Barbiturates.
Gram - A metric measure of weight.
Grass - Marijuana.
Gun - Equipment for injecting drugs.
Happy dust - Cocaine.
Hard stuff - Drugs.
Hash - Marijuana.
Hay - Marijuana.
Head - Someone who uses drugs frequently.
Head shop - Store specializing in the sale of drug paraphernalia.
Hearts - Dexadrine.
Heaven - Cocaine.
Heavenly Blue - Morning glory seeds; a hallucinogen.
Heavy burner - A person who smokes a lot of dope, a burnout.
Heeled - Having plenty of money.
Herb - Marijuana.
Heroin - China white, fix, horse, smack, whack, mother pearl, H. junk.
High - To be intoxicated on drugs.
Hit- A single dose of drugs.
Hog - PCP.
Holding - In possession of drugs.
Home grown - Locally grown Marijuana; local weed; ditch weed.
Hooked - Addicted.
Hopped up - Under the influence of drugs.
Horse - Heroin.
Hot shot - Fatal injection of drugs.
Huffer - Glue sniffer.
Huffing - Inhaling solvents from a bag.
Hustle - Attempt to obtain drug customers.
Hype - Narcotic addict.
Ice cream habit - Occasional drug use.
In - Connected with drug suppliers.
Isomerizer - Used to increase potency of THC in Marijuana.
Jag - Extended period of using a drug.
Jive - Marijuana.
Joint - A Marijuana cigarette.
Joy popping - Occasional use of drugs.
Junk - Heroin, so named because it's never pure when sold on the street.
Junkie - A heroin addict.
Key - Kilogram.
Kick - To stop using drugs.
Kickback - Relapse back into drug usage.
Kiddie dope - Usually prescription drugs.
Kif - North African word for Marijuana.
Killer - Strong drug.
Killer weed - Strong Marijuana, or marijuana sprinkled with PCP.
Kilo - 2.2 Ibs., also 'Key'.
Kit - Equipment used to inject drugs.
Laughing gas - Nitrous Oxide. (inhalant)
Lemonade - Poor-quality drugs.
Leapers - Amphetamines.
Lid - One ounce or less of Marijuana.
Line - A dose of Cocaine arranged in a line on a smooth surface.
Load - A large quantity of drugs.
Loaded - High on drugs or alcohol.
Locker room - Butyl Nitrate. (inhalant)
LSD - Acid, microdots, purple haze, blotters, fry, blaze, tab, dose, gel, pyramid, trips.
Ludes - Methaqualone; Quaaludes, Valium.
Mainline - Inject a drug directly into a vein, to 'shoot up'.
Mainliner - A person who injects directly into the vein.
Manicure - Remove seeds from marijuana.
Marijuana - Correctly named Cannabis. Slang terms: Buds, bhang, dope, goof butt, grass, hash, hay, hemp, herb, jive, mowie wowie, pot, rope, stinkweed, stuff, tea, weed. In Spain it's usually called Chocolate. (Choco, with the 'late' part pronounced as in Café-laté)
Marijuana cigarette - Bone, doobie, joint, J, reefer, spiff.
Mary Jane - Marijuana.
Matchbox - Measurement for a small amount of Marijuana.
Mescaline - Mess, crystal.
Meet - Buyer and seller get together.
Merchandise - Drugs.
Methadone - Junk, Burdock, jungle juice.
Microdot - A tablet containing LSD.
Miss Emma - Morphine.
Monkey - Drug dependency; a kilogram of a drug.
Mule - A carrier of drugs.
Munchies - The hunger that follows after using Marijuana.
Mushrooms - Magic mushrooms, shrooms, mushies.
Narc - Narcotic agent, drug officer.
Narcotics - American name for Drugs.
Needle freak - A person who prefers to take drugs with a needle.
NORML - National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws; lobbies for lenient drug laws.
Nugget - Marijuana.
O.D. - Overdose on drugs.
On - Under the influence of a drug.
On a trip - Under the influence of drugs.
On ice - In jail.
On the nod - Under the influence of narcotics or depressants.
Out of it - Under the influence of drugs.
O.Z. - One ounce.
Pakalolo - Hawaiian term for Marijuana.
Panama Gold, Red - Potent Marijuana grown in Panama.
Panic - Drugs not available.
Papers - Rolling papers, used to make marijuana or tobacco cigarettes.
Paraphernalia - Accessories used to take drugs.
PCP - (Phencyclidine) angel dust, kools sherms, high, wet daddies, dust, juice.
Peach pills - PCP.
Pepsi habit - Occasional use of drugs.
Peanuts - Barbiturates.
Peyote - Hallucinogenic cactus, buttons.
Pickup - Purchase drugs.
Piece - Usually one ounce of drugs.
Pinks - Second. (Barbiturate)
Plant - A hiding place for drugs.
Poppers - Amyl Nitrate, room deodorizers, Rush, Bolt, HardWare, Poprs, Quich Silver, Liquid aroma, Nitro, Amsterdam, Taiwan Blue.
Pot - Marijuana.
Pot head - Marijuana user.
Power hitter - A device (often plastic) used to deliver a blast of Marijuana smoke to the lungs.
Rainbows - Barbiturate.
Red Devils - Seconal. (Barbiturate)
Reefer - Marijuana.
Rig - The paraphernalia for injecting drugs.
Riding the wave - Under the influence of drugs.
Roach - The stub of a Marijuana cigarette.
Roach clip - Any tweezers-like device used to hold a Marijuana cigarette stub that is too short to hold in the fingers.
Rush - An intense surge of pleasure; Butyl Nitrate inhalant.
Scat - Heroin.
School boy - Codeine.
Score - To locate and purchase a quantity of drugs.
Shooting gallery - Place where addicts inject drugs.
Shoot up - To inject intravenously.
Shotgun - A way of smoking Marijuana, by blowing smoke back through the joint into another's mouth.
Sinsemilla or Sins - A potent type of Marijuana without seeds grown in Northern California.
Skin popping - To inject a drug under the skin.
Smack- Heroin.
Snappers - Amyl Nitrate capsules. (inhalant)
Snort - To inhale Cocaine through the nostrils.
Snow - Cocaine.
Snow bird - Dependent on Cocaine.
Space cadet - Habitual user of Marijuana.
Spaced out - Under the influence of drugs.
Spaced - Unresponsive to surroundings.
Speed - Amphetamines.
Speedball - A mixture of Cocaine and Heroin, 'Bombita'.
Speed freak - Person who repeatedly takes Amphetamines, usually intravenously.
Spike - Needle used to inject drugs.
Spoons - Paraphernalia associated with Cocaine, often worn as jewelry.
Star dust - Cocaine.
Stash - A place where drugs are hidden.
Step on - To dilute drugs.
Stick - A Marijuana cigarette. Stimulants - pep pills.
Stoned - Under the influence of drugs.
Straight - Not using drugs.
Strung out - Heavily addicted to drugs.
Stuff - Drugs.
Superman - LSD blotter with Superman imprint.
Taste - A small sample of drugs.
Tea - Marijuana.
Thai sticks - Marijuana laced with Opium.
Tobacco - Butt, chew, weed, cig.
Toke - Inhaling Marijuana or Hashish smoke.
Tolley or toluene - A cheap, extremely harmful paint solvent. (inhalant)
Toot - To sniff Cocaine.
Tooter - Small, hollow tube (straw-like) to sniff Cocaine.
Tracks - A row of needle marks on the skin.
Trap - A hiding place for drugs.
Trip - Under the influence of drugs.
Turf - A location where drugs are sold.
Turkey - A substitute sold as a specific drug.
Turned on - Introduced to drugs, or under the influence of drugs.
Tweezes - A wild variety of psilocybin mushrooms. (hallucinogen)
Uppers - Stimulants, Amphetamines.
Valium - Ludes, drunk pills, v's blues.
Wasted - Intoxicated, strung out.
Weed - Marijuana.
White - Cocaine.
White Lightening - LSD.
Wired - Addicted to Amphetamines or Heroin.
Works - Equipment for injecting drugs.
Yellow Jackets - Nembutal, Barbiturate.
Yen - A strong craving.
Zombi - Heavy user of drugs.
Zonked - Extremely high on drugs.

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We neither condone nor condemn the use of drugs, however as there is no getting away from the fact that they are widely used, we

feel it would be an error of omission not to include the above information which is designed to educate, not to encourage their use.