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This Is the DEA’s Internal Dictionary of Drug Slang
#23867778 - 11/26/16 01:45 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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https://motherboard.vice.com/read/dea-drug-slang-dictionary
If you spent any time in US elementary school in the ineffective DARE program (short for Drug Abuse Resistance Education), you were probably told to lay off “dope,” “Mary Jane,” and “reefer,” among countless other pseudonyms for drugs. As a somewhat sheltered youth, I rarely had any idea what the DARE officers were talking about.
Besides standards like “weed” and “pot,” I’m still unsure of how often drug slang is actually used in the wild. But I am excited to share with you the US government’s treasure trove of drug slang, which may come in handy if you’re a comedy writer looking to write dialogue for out-of-touch adults trying to connect with the youths. This is the official Drug Enforcement Agency’s “dictionary” of drug slang terms, compiled between 1993 and October 2008, and published internally in May of 2009. Motherboard obtained the document, which has never been made publicly available in full on the internet until now, via a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA).
The dictionary is part of “Operation Breakthrough,” a DEA research project originally aimed at estimating the total amount of cocaine production in South America. The project is still ongoing and has expanded to “provide the U.S. Government with unique forensic data and strategic intelligence on the nature and magnitude of the evolving global threats posed by illicit crop cultivation and drug production,” according to the Department of Justice’s 2017 budget request.
In response to my FOIA, the DEA mailed me the following treasure trove of documents (scanned and uploaded below).
An introductory message from Anthony Placido, the DEA’s Chief of Intelligence at the time, notes that the dictionary was compiled by DEA officials who interviewed cocaine and heroin cooks. The dictionary is organized in four separate ways: Alphabetically, by country, by drug, and by stage (abuse, cultivation, general, and processing).
“Cocaine and heroin cooks frequently use slang or specialized terms for different facets of drug processing,” Placido wrote. “This dictionary defines many of the terms most commonly used by cooks in Latin America and Southwest [redacted].”
Thanks to the dictionary, I now know that an “aceituna” (an “olive”) is an LSD user in Mexico, “chandu” is a Hindi-Bengali term for cooked opium, and a “nuai” is 700 grams of heroin in southeast Asia. If any of these terms don’t sound right to you, or if it's missing any you think it should have, let us know.
https://www.scribd.com/document/332098704/DEA-File#fullscreen&from_embed
Edited by tdubz (11/26/16 01:52 AM)
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Re: This Is the DEA’s Internal Dictionary of Drug Slang [Re: tdubz]
#23868222 - 11/26/16 08:46 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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I was watching Drug Inc last night. They were talking about black people in Chicago and "Kush". How it's 10x stronger than ordinary weed.
I don't know how they plan on winning the war on drugs. They have such fucked up understandings.
-------------------- "in sterquiliniis invenitur in stercore invenitur" In filth it will be found in dung it will be found
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Re: This Is the DEA’s Internal Dictionary of Drug Slang [Re: Morel Guy]
#23868331 - 11/26/16 09:25 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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What do you mean? As long as the dea is in buissiness they are winning and we the citezins are losing.there is no winning or losing this war, as long as they are in buissiness they are winning.
-------------------- its that bitter-sweet-sour, electric-smooth-twang. everything you ever have, are. or will feel along with every emotion, joy, hate, love, fear or aspiration burning down your nerves and into the fabric of your place in this existence at ten thousand degrees above and below zero will you find yourself wondering if you've been dead or alive this whole time. being born over and over only to die over and over hoping the wheel stops in the same place it started when you spun it, and when it finally does and you can step back and take a nice deep breath you realize how beautiful life is, remember, wake up to the most beautiful day of your life every single day, its just the way.
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Re: This Is the DEA’s Internal Dictionary of Drug Slang [Re: whitelights]
#23868340 - 11/26/16 09:27 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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No not really. It's a stalemate game. If anything they are losing because nobody buy's into their bullshit lies.
They couldn't stop the NVA from marching down the Ho Min trail and they aren't going to stop drugs. They aren't even going to stop Hispanics from coming in either. They fail at everything and miserably. All they do is spend the money all up.
-------------------- "in sterquiliniis invenitur in stercore invenitur" In filth it will be found in dung it will be found
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Re: This Is the DEA’s Internal Dictionary of Drug Slang [Re: Morel Guy]
#23868475 - 11/26/16 10:20 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yes the DEA is a shit force in many many ways, glad they keep guns out, but they are winning because we are still paying their big paychecks and keep them in work that's all they want. Nice high paying gov job pretty simple. Also interesting being called an Olive ha.----Edit
Edited by mushiefeet (11/26/16 10:21 AM)
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Re: This Is the DEA’s Internal Dictionary of Drug Slang [Re: Morel Guy]
#23869093 - 11/26/16 01:42 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Morel Guy said: I was watching Drug Inc last night. They were talking about black people in Chicago and "Kush". How it's 10x stronger than ordinary weed.
I don't know how they plan on winning the war on drugs. They have such fucked up understandings.
It's not the cops that believe or make it up. Dumb ass dealers making sales and boosting product up with retarded stories and huge mark ups is where they get info like Kuhns being that strong or rediculous prices. Blame it on the street corner fuck.
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Re: This Is the DEA’s Internal Dictionary of Drug Slang [Re: em_bre_O]
#23869128 - 11/26/16 01:58 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ya but even the police don't clear up the misinformation. Saying kush is 10x stronger.
-------------------- "in sterquiliniis invenitur in stercore invenitur" In filth it will be found in dung it will be found
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Re: This Is the DEA’s Internal Dictionary of Drug Slang [Re: Morel Guy]
#23869184 - 11/26/16 02:24 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Not a stalemate at all, doesn't matter what they do, they're still getting paid rather well to do it, and fuck up peoples lives in the process. But they don't care cause they get paid.
-------------------- its that bitter-sweet-sour, electric-smooth-twang. everything you ever have, are. or will feel along with every emotion, joy, hate, love, fear or aspiration burning down your nerves and into the fabric of your place in this existence at ten thousand degrees above and below zero will you find yourself wondering if you've been dead or alive this whole time. being born over and over only to die over and over hoping the wheel stops in the same place it started when you spun it, and when it finally does and you can step back and take a nice deep breath you realize how beautiful life is, remember, wake up to the most beautiful day of your life every single day, its just the way.
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Re: This Is the DEA’s Internal Dictionary of Drug Slang [Re: whitelights]
#23871473 - 11/27/16 09:42 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: This Is the DEA’s Internal Dictionary of Drug Slang [Re: durian_2008]
#23872380 - 11/27/16 03:09 PM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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when they do it to a mexican they're fighting the cartel but when they do it to a celebrity it's like boxing with the devil
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Re: This Is the DEA’s Internal Dictionary of Drug Slang [Re: Konyap]
#23874643 - 11/28/16 09:25 AM (7 years, 2 months ago) |
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If the outside world decriminalizes drugs, America is going to lose status, as the major pusher, of all times.
Empires have used the same, heavyhanded tactics, over commodities like salt, common kitchen seasonings, and rubber.
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