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Summary of Dangerous Drugs Drug Also known as . . .

Effect

What is it made from and how is it taken?

Marijuana

Pot, grass, weed, reefer, Acapulco gold, Mary Jane

Sedative/Depressant

Dried leaves and tops of the cannabis plant, smoked in cigarettes or eaten

Cocaine

Coke, flake, snow, crack

Stimulant (the most potent natural stimulant known)

A fine white powder, made from the coca plant, sniffed, smoked, injected, or eaten

Heroin

Horse, smack

Sedative/depressant

A white powder with a bitter taste, made from the opium poppy plant and injected or smoked

Ecstasy

MDMA, XTC

Stimulant/hallucinogenic

A combination of chemicals swallowed as a tablet

Stimulant

Solvents are inhaled from a soaked rag, sometimes from inside a bag, held to the face

Inhalants

Various solvents found in glue, hair spray, lighter fluid, paints, other household items

Rohypnol ®

Flunitrazepam, roofies, date rape drug

Sedative

Tablets, available legally outside the U.S. to treat insomnia

Methamphet- amine

Speed, ice, crystal meth

Stimulant

Chemicals formed into a white powder or rocklike crystals, smoked, eaten, or injected

Acid, tabs, microdots, trips, blotter, cid, doses (more than 80 street names)

Hallucinogenic (the strongest known)

Chemicals diluted into a liquid, soaked onto quarter-inch square tabs of blotting paper (tabs) or sugar cubes, and eaten; also made in tablet form (microdots)

LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)

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