Cocaine: The Nicknames

At the peak of its popularity in the 1970s and 1980s, cocaine began to influnce many aspects of American society and some of the street names for the drug reflect how widespread that influence became. Of course, other slang terms used for the drug seem to have no base in logic at all, except to cover up the topic of the conversation. Read more...

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