 Drug Properties and Law: Class A DrugsCOCAINE:
Cocaine powder, freebase and crack are all forms of cocaine. They are stimulants with powerful, but short-lived effects. Stimulants temporarily speed up the processes of your mind and body. ‘Freebase’ cocaine and ‘crack’ cocaine, can be smoked, and so can reach the brain very rapidly in a high dosage. Snorted powder cocaine is absorbed more slowly through the membranes in the nostril. Hence, smoked freebase or crack tends to be much stronger and more addictive than snorted powder cocaine. However, all forms of cocaine prepared for injection (whether powder cocaine or crack) can also reach the brain rapidly in high doses and so can be very addictive too. – Here the veins collapse immediately.
Slang: Street names for drugs can vary around the country. For powder cocaine – coke, Charlie, C, white, Percy, snow, toot. For crack – rocks, wash, stones, pebbles, base, freebase, Bones, ‘lickin' the volvic’. CLASSIFICATION:
Cocaine and crack are Class A drugs - illegal to have, give away or sell. Possession can get you up to seven years in jail. Supplying someone else, including your friends, can get you life and an unlimited fine. HEROIN:
Heroin is a natural opiate made from morphine (opiates dull pain / the brain has natural opiates). Morphine is extracted from the opium poppy. Like many drugs made from opium, including synthetic opioids (e.g. methadone) heroin is a very strong painkiller. ‘Street’ heroin sold as 'brown' or ‘Smack’ and has sometimes been used by clubbers as a chill out drug. ‘Brown’ is the same as white heroin and is equally addictive. Slang: Street names for drugs can vary around the country. Brown, skag, H, horse, gear, smack. CLASSIFICATION:
Heroin is a class A drug. This means that possessing it can lead to a prison sentence of up to 7 years and an unlimited fine. Supplying (which includes giving it to a friend) could lead to a life sentence and another unlimited fine. ACID / TRIPS / L.S.D.:
LSD or Lysergic Acid Diethylamide is a hallucinogenic drug, which means that you are likely to experience a distorted view of objects and reality. LSD is commonly called ‘acid’. The experience is known as a ‘trip’ and these trips can be good or sometimes horrifyingly bad. A trip can take from 20 minutes to an hour to start and usually lasts about 12 hours. Once it has started it cannot be stopped. And until you take a tab of acid you can't tell how strong it is or how it's going to affect you. How the trip goes will be affected by who you are, how you're feeling at the time (good or bad) and how comfortable you are with the people you are with.
Slang: Street names for drugs can vary around the country. Acid, blotter, walnut whips, paper clips, pickle tickets, cheer, dots, drop, flash, hawk, L, lightening flash, liquid acid, Lucy, micro dot, paper mushrooms, rainbows, smilies, stars, tab, trips, tripper, window. Sometimes LSD is known by the pictures on them e.g strawberries. CLASSIFICATION:
LSD / ACID is a Class A drug – It is illegal to have, give away or sell. Possession can get you up to seven years in jail. Supplying someone else, including friends, with LSD can get you a life sentence and an unlimited fine. ECSTASY:
‘E’ is a form of pill which is taken from the chemical MDMA. This is often called the original designer drug because of its synonymous relationship with 80’s ‘rave’ culture. Clubbers take ecstasy to stay awake and dance for hours. The effects take about half an hour to begin and tend to last between 3 to 6 hours, followed by a gradual comedown. Slang: Street names for drugs can vary around the country. ‘E’, pills, brownies, Mitsubishi's, Rolex's, Dolphins, XTC, Love Doves, Snowballs, Eckies. MDMA. CLASSIFICATION:
Ecstasy is a Class A drug - illegal to have, give away or sell. Possession can get you up to seven years in jail. Supplying someone else, including your friends, can get you life and an unlimited fine. CRYSTAL METH / KRANK / CRYSTAL:
Methylamphetamine (commonly referred to as methamphetamine, or Meth) is one of a group of stimulant drugs called amphetamines that act on the brain and nervous system. Like cocaine and amphetamines, meth has stimulant properties but is much longer acting. The crystalline form – sometimes called ‘Ice’ – like ‘crack cocaine’ can be smoked and can rapidly lead to high counts of blood levels. It is also long-acting compared to crack cocaine so it is an extremely powerful, popular and addictive stimulant.
Slang: Street names for drugs can vary around the country. Ice, glass, Tina, Christine, Yabba, crank. CLASSIFICATION:
Methamphetamine - often referred to as crystal meth - was reclassified as a Class A drug on 18th January 2007. It is illegal to have, give away or sell. As a Class A drug, possession can get you up to seven years in jail and/or an unlimited fine. Supplying someone else, even your friends, can get you life imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine. METHADONE:
Methadone is one of a number of synthetic opiates (also called opioids) that are manufactured for medical use and have similar effects to heroin. Methadone and Subutex (Buprenorphine) are used as opiate substitutes for heroin in the treatment of heroin addiction.
Slang: Street names for drugs can vary around the country. Mixture, meth, linctus, physeptone. CLASSIFICATION:
Methadone is a Class A drug - illegal to have, give away or sell. Possession can get you up to seven years in jail. Supplying someone else, even your friends, can get you life imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine.
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