Each illegal drug has a number of different street names associated with it, sometimes just serving as nicknames while other times describing the region of origin. For example, “blow” is a universal monicker for cocaine, and “Mexican black tar” describes black tar heroin hailing from across the border.

Cocaine: Common names for cocaine include blow, candy, cock, freeze, happy dust, mojo, nose, shot, snow, sugar and white powder. “Crack” refers to a smokeable form of cocaine, which is also known as beat, casper, chalk, gravel, kryptonite, moon rock, scrabble and tornado.

Depressant Drugs: Common names for depressants taken illegally include backwards, downie, green dragons, joy juice, M&M, peanut, red bullets, stumbler and yellow.

Fentanyl: Fentanyl is also known as apache, china town, friend, great bear, jackpot, murder 8, tango & cash and TNT.

GHB: GHB, which stands for Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, is also known as cherry meth, easy lay, gamma hydrate, grievous bodily harm, liquid X, sodium oxybate and soap.

Heroin: Heroin is also referred to as black pearl, big H, capital H, brown sugar, china white, good horse, dope, hard stuff, heroina, hero, mud, little boy, smack, perfect high and tar.

Inhalants: Inhaling chemicals is also known as air blast, boppers, climax, hardware, high ball, heart on, honey oil, laughing gas, huff, moon gas, medusa, thrust, satan’s secret and whiteout.

Ketamine: Ketamine is also known as cat valium, cat killer, honey oil, ket, special K, super acid and vitamin K.

LSD: Also known as Lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD is also referred to as acid, blotter, cubes, golden dragon, paper acid, superman, pink robots, yellow sunshine and twenty-five.

Marijuana: Marijuana is also called boom, chornic, ganja, grass, hash, herb, mary jane, rip, skunk, reefer, root, weed and zambi.

Meth: Methamphetamines are also referred to as beanies, chalk, crank, CR, crystal meth, crystal, granulated orange, meth, Mexican crack, rock, pink, speckled birds, tina, speed and yellow powder.

PCP: PCP or Phencyclidine is also known as angel dust, black whack, belladonna, cliffhanger, Detroit pink, hog, elephant tranquilizer, Peter Pan, soma, sheets, trank, zoom and white horizon.