Various media-slang drug words that I'm sure nobody actually uses
I'm guessing this has already been mentioned.

Meow Meow being the latest. I’m fairly certain nobody who either uses or sells this product actually refers to it by this stupid fucking name. The same was for Ketamine when that was in the spotlight. Special K? Vitamin K? Techno Smack?? Throughout all my years on the clubbing ‘circuit’ I never once heard it referred to as anything other than it’s actual name or an abbreviation thereof (Ket, K).
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 8:44, 12 replies)

Special K.
it was/is sometimes called that. But in general I agree with you. although I'm much more worried about a criminal system that dictates drug legality based on the basis of "What the Daily Mail says" rather than any actual factual basis or risk.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 9:44, closed)

I heard special K
But all the media names for pills were daft.

All the time I was doing it they were called pills, or by their branding, or garys (as in gary abletts/tablets). All other terms were ironic.

Everyone I know who does this mephedrone rubbish calls it 'drone.
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Tue 13 Apr 2010, 11:26, closed)

The best name for pills was 'betts' after Leah Betts died
'did you put any betts on at the weekend?'
'fuck yeah, didn't sleep 'til Monday'
( broadsword now that's fresh, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 11:32, closed)

Benny Hills
Was my slang name of choice
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 11:35, closed)

I used to have a Leah Betts t-shirt back in the day
On the front it said "Leah Betts died from just one E"
On the back it said "Lightweight"

I used to wear it a lot. I'm surprised, looking back, that I never got my head kicked in.
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Thu 15 Apr 2010, 6:37, closed)

Aye. Mitsubishis and doves where I was, mostly. But mostly just "pills"
But the press using stupid names is a big part of a) the cake pisstake and, more seriously, b) the desire amongst the press to create a climate of ignorant fear - the more people go "oh, I don't recognise those names" the more they think there is some giant drug-subculture they don't understand, and the more they fear it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 12:17, closed)

Up here in Yorkshire, they're referred to as 'tatts'
Don't know why..
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 5:50, closed)

Special K did get used quite a lot
never heard of it as techno smack, I kinda like that though
( broadsword now that's fresh, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 9:47, closed)

If it's not Joss Ackland's spunky backpack
I'm not touching it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 10:31, closed)

The nightmare of cake

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 10:36, closed)

I like techno smack too
but also have never heard of it being referred to as such. I have heard vitamin k and special k but generally when I have heard it being used it was in an ironic way. I mainly refer to it as K.
(mmm....beer, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 0:32, closed)

I 'm old enough to remember
the media claiming that people sometimes referred to ecstasy as 'adam', presumably some kind of scrambling of 'MDMA'.

From really quite extensive research I can confirm that this was completely made up.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 13:45, closed)

Are you sure you're not confusing your clubbing days with Bioshock?
_{That'll be all the drugs :P}
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:20, closed)

Salvia Divinorum
A hallucinogenic plant of the sage family. The Sunday Times claimed it has a 'street name' called 'magic mint', though since you could get it legally through the post, there's nothing more 'street' about it than the Reader's Digest.

I've never met anyone who'd actually used it calling it anything other than 'Salvia Divinorum'.
(Cameltoad, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 20:30, closed)