Law review title help from the DEA: “Drug Slang Code Words”

All wise law professors and law students know that the most essential part of effective legal scholarship is a snappy and clever title.  See generally Orin S. Kerr, A Theory of Law, 16 GREEN BAG 2D 111 (2012).  And, of course, the key to a snappy and clever title is some impressive pun or double entendre or wordplay that comes off as sophisticated, smart and just the right amount of sassy.  

In light of those realities, as especially because in the marijuana space I am already tired of “canna…” branding and titles, I am here pleased to be able to spotlight this new resource from the Drug Enforcement Administration titled “Drug Slang Code Words.”  Here is the executive summary of this seven-page “unclassified DEA Intelligence Report” [with my brackets/emphasis added]:

This Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Intelligence Report contains information from a variety of law enforcement and open sources. It is designed as a ready reference for law enforcement personnel [and law review title writers] who are confronted by many of the hundreds of slang terms used to identify a wide variety of controlled substances, designer drugs, and synthetic compounds. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information presented.  However, due to the dynamics of the ever-changing drug scene, subsequent additions, deletions, and corrections are inevitable.  Further addendums to this report will attempt to capture changed terminology, to the extent possible.  This compendium of drug slang terms has been alphabetically ordered, and identifies drugs and drug categories in English and foreign language derivations.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, cocaine, heroin and marijuana have the most listed slang terms, and here is the list of slang terms for marijuana just through the letter B:

420; Acapulco Gold; Acapulco Red; Ace; African Black; African Bush; Airplane; Alfombra; Alice B Toklas; All- Star; Angola; Animal Cookies (hydroponic); Arizona; Ashes; Aunt Mary; Baby; Bale; Bambalachacha; Barbara Jean; Bareta; Bash; BC Budd; Bernie; Bhang; Big Pillows; Biggy; Black Bart; Black Gold; Black Maria; Blondie; Blue Cheese; Blue Crush; Blue Jeans; Blue Sage; Blueberry; Bobo Bush; Boo; Boom; Broccoli; Bud; Budda; Burritos Verdes; Bush;

I am already thinking of articles to write which could have Bambalachacha or Big Pillows in the title, and so too should the rest of you.