Hey, wanna smoke some Muggles? (fwd)

[Lynne Murphy]

lynnem at cogs.susx.ac.uk thought you would be interested in this article at
Salon.com http://www.salon.com

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Hey, wanna smoke some Muggles?
By Tom McNichol

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/02/15/drug_lingo/index.html

The drug culture has a language all its own, an underground dialect of
slang and idiom familiar only to those in the know. But don't take my word
for it. The White House <a href="/directory/topics/ondcp/index.html">Office
of National Drug Control Policy,</a> the nation's chief anti-drug agency,
has compiled an exhaustive, and thoroughly exhausting, <a target="new"
href="http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetterms/Default.asp">database
</a> of more than 2,300 street terms for drugs or drug-related activity,
like, say, taking drugs.

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