COKE in the M aryland

[David Bowie]

From:    Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>

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: As for "dope," one assumes, perhaps less confidently, that "dope"
: (fool) comes earlier than "dope" (illicit drugs).  Furthermore,
: "dope" (specif. "marijuana") is so common a term nowadays that to
: refer to the drink in that way would be discordant.  "Coke" (the
: drug) interferes less because expensive, more strongly tabooed, and
: less common on campus.

I'm not sure that "dope" meaning marijuana is actually all so common
nowadays--to me it seems like a horribly old-fashioned term, the kind of
thing you laugh at when you see old shows on Nick at Nite, definitely not
something that's really in active use *now*.

David Bowie                                         http://pmpkn.net/lx
    Jeanne's Two Laws of Chocolate: If there is no chocolate in the
    house, there is too little; some must be purchased. If there is
    chocolate in the house, there is too much; it must be consumed.