I feel like I'm on dope.

[nq:1]In "Rock The Boat", Aaliyah's last single before she died, she said, "I feel like I'm on dope". According to ... meaning of the word change to mean pot? And pot has nowhere near the "doping" effect that heroin does, right?[/nq]
Going back at least to the forties (and probably further) "dope" has meant heroin to the heroin user and pot to the pot user. Unless you know about the habits of

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[nq:2]In "Rock The Boat", Aaliyah's last single before she died, ... has nowhere near the "doping" effect that heroin does, right?[/nq]
[nq:1]Going back at least to the forties (and probably further) "dope" has meant heroin to the heroin user and pot to the pot user. Unless you know about the habits of the person using the word, it is no more specific than "drugs".[/nq]

[nq:1]In "Rock The Boat", Aaliyah's last single before she died, she said, "I feel like I'm on dope". According to ... meaning of the word change to mean pot? And pot has nowhere near the "doping" effect that heroin does, right?[/nq]
My impression, which may be generational or not, is that "dope" is a word that is generally used by those who are far removed from the world of the drug user(s) b

R H Draney (Email Removed) wrote on 22 Dec 2003:
[nq:1]Incidentally, I have once again misapprehended the direction a new subject line was intended to take...thought we were going to be asked for an adjective to describe a feeling like that of being on drugs...I was all set to offer "logy"..r[/nq]
Not on speed or Ecstasy; maybe after the crash, though. On pot I would say "loggish", on reds

R F (Email Removed) wrote on 22 Dec 2003:
[nq:2]In "Rock The Boat", Aaliyah's last single before she died, ... has nowhere near the "doping" effect that heroin does, right?[/nq]
[nq:1]My impression, which may be generational or not, is that "dope" is a word that is generally used by those ... "smoking dope" is a pretty old expression, but I don't think it's one that's generally been used b

[nq:1]Nobody used Mary Jane or marijuana except them what didn't do it[/nq]
A college friend of mine was busted for marijuana sometime in the mid '70s. The police report documented the following (supposed) exchange:

Police Officer: What's in your pocket, sir?
My friend: A bag of marijuana.

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Dena Jo (Email Removed) wrote on 22 Dec 2003:
[nq:2]Nobody used Mary Jane or marijuana except them what didn't do it[/nq]
[nq:1]A college friend of mine was busted for marijuana sometime in the mid '70s. The police report documented the following (supposed) exchange: Police Officer: What's in your pocket, sir? My friend: A bag of marijuana.[/nq]
But he was talking to the cops, right? N

[nq:1]But he was talking to the cops, right? Not to his doper buddies.[/nq]
The conversation never happened.

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[nq:1]Back in the 60s and early 70s, "smoking dope" and "smoking pot" were fungibile, but I think the former was the more frequently used.[/nq]
I did not know that.
[nq:1]You were born too late.[/nq]
Sometimes I think so, yes. If I were to pick a generation, it definitely wouldn't be Young Joey's Generation Y (that's Y for Young). I like the Bob Cunningham Generation(TM) and the half-g

[nq:1]In my own experience, "pot" was the only word used apart from jesting or formal usages. "Grass" is something I've only heard on TV and never had the ring of authenticity about it did anyone ever actually use that? Anyone? Anyone? Richoux?[/nq]
Oh, yeah. "Got any grass?" was as common as "Got Milk?" is now. "Wanna smoke some grass?" was not uncommon. "I had a date with Mary Jane last nigh