DOPE as a college student slang term, 1

[Jonathan Lighter]

Connie is undoubtedly right.  But the existence of "dope" adj. may create additional discord.

JL

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Connie Eble reports:

Dear Ron,
=A0=A0 I'll ask my students.=A0 But my feeling is that dope is used today as
much as an evaluative term ('good', 'excellent') as to refer to drugs.
I've been collecting dank for marijuana for the past couple of years.
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onnie


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