Drug Slang on Craigslist (NY Post)

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 09:47:21AM -0700, Lal Zimman wrote:
> There was an article in last week's New Yorker (if not last week, the
> week before) about methamphetamines in the gay community and it
> mentioned the name "tina" for the drug. I hadn't heard of the name
> before reading the article but it seems to be quite common in the gay
> male party circuit.

_tina_ for meth has been pretty common for five years or so. I think
there was some article in a mainstream magazine or newspaper a few
years ago that called attention to it.

Jesse Sheidlower
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