"Smoking Blow"

In the US it's coke, in teh UK it's weed.

[QUOTE=noisetonepause]In the US it's coke, in Engerland it's weed.[/QUOTE]
Because you blow out the smoke?

I dunno.

Why would you call charlie 'blow'? shirley you don't blow, you snort?

[QUOTE=noisetonepause]I dunno.

Why would you call charlie 'blow'? shirley you don't blow, you snort?[/QUOTE]
yeah, but you have to blow your nose a lot the next day, if you can call it a next day and you blow all your money on it.

When you do heroin through a straw, as in NOT inject but snort, it's called "blow"

My woman told me. We had drug talk a few nights ago. She is from New Orleans. I didnt ask her WHY they called it blow even though it should be called snort, but it is what it is called and therefore it is. Called "blow". Not "snort". What it is. She told me.
kabol

Maybe, Park, youre on to something. Maybe everything you snort is called blow, because you blow your nose for the next forever after a night of partying. With blow.
kabol

[QUOTE=Parkaboy]I came across the phrase "smoking blow" in the latest Hornby novel, A Long Way Down. Now, when the charactyer referred to blow previously, I thought it was cocaine, which is a vernacular slang for it in the States. Now I'm thinking it's marijuana, unless she's talking about crack, which is possible, but not very Honrby-esque.

If the Brit faction could clarify that would be grand.[/QUOTE]

Um ... people smoke cocaine. You might have also heard it called freebase. Back in the day, Richard Pryor set fire to his beard, afro and ultimately his house while he was freebasing coke.

And we're talking about this right before a 3-day weekend... good times.

[QUOTE=Parkaboy]Because you blow out the smoke?[/QUOTE]

*ding*

parka, youre too prude, go have fun, experiment, let us know YOUR thoughts on the matter.

I didnt even think about cocain that way. Meth, yes. Had a girlfriend once, she did a lot of meth. Use to freebase it, from tin foil. Sprinkle on the tin, then light underneath. Breathe in deep through a thick glass straw at the smoke. Never once thought about someone doing that with cocain, though.
kabol

[QUOTE=inkwell]Um ... people smoke cocaine. You might have also heard it called freebase. Back in the day, Richard Pryor set fire to his beard, afro and ultimately his house while he was freebasing coke.

And we're talking about this right before a 3-day weekend... good times.[/QUOTE]
Yes, I know people smoke cocaine, but they don't call it blow when they do. Also, I seriously doubted Hornby had created a character doing that or crack or meth.

[QUOTE=spacemonkey1888]parka, youre too prude, go have fun, experiment, let us know YOUR thoughts on the matter.[/QUOTE]
I've done it all and I never called it blow.

[QUOTE=JKabol]I didnt even think about cocain that way. Meth, yes. Had a girlfriend once, she did a lot of meth. Use to freebase it, from tin foil. Sprinkle on the tin, then light underneath. Breathe in deep through a thick glass straw at the smoke. Never once thought about someone doing that with cocain, though.
kabol[/QUOTE]
Try adding some baking soda.

try some nutmeg and oregano

[QUOTE=Parkaboy]Try adding some baking soda.[/QUOTE]Yeah, then we can cook it up in a pot, call it cookies. Mmm-ummm.

[QUOTE=Parkaboy]I came across the phrase "smoking blow" in the latest Hornby novel, A Long Way Down.[/QUOTE]

I'd automatically think that "smoking blow" would be smoking crack (or "freebasing", the old cleaner-but-discarded way). But if it's British, maybe it [I]is[/I] pot. I didn't know that Brits called pot "blow", and I didn't know they called coke "Viet Cong"... or "charlie", I mean. And meth on tin-foil is like a TV dinner when camping. Just... bad. Meth is bad enough already (and that was how I always smoked it, on foil, years ago before the rednecks here got sophisticated and started using glass and I decided to go the other way and became a junkie...), but I'm curious about this terminology thing.

[QUOTE=ralphthompsonxxx]I'd automatically think that "smoking blow" would be smoking crack (or "freebasing", the old cleaner-but-discarded way). But if it's British, maybe it [I]is[/I] pot. I didn't know that Brits called pot "blow", and I didn't know they called coke "Viet Cong"... or "charlie", I mean. And meth on tin-foil is like a TV dinner when camping. Just... bad. Meth is bad enough already (and that was how I always smoked it, on foil, years ago before the rednecks here got sophisticated and started using glass and I decided to go the other way and became a junkie...), but I'm curious about this terminology thing.[/QUOTE]
I never liked meth much myself.

"Foils"

but with coke, not meth.

complete thought not that is

[QUOTE=Parkaboy]I never liked meth much myself.[/QUOTE]

Meth fucking sucks, like terribly. I'd rather pay the price for coke or eat a bunch of pharmaceutical methamphetamine, brand name Desoxyn--from the Nazis, along with Volkswagens. But I dislike stimulants anyway (excepting caffeine and nicotine, which I dislike, but since I'm addicted to them and they keep my junkie-heart beating, one has to do what one has to do).

[QUOTE=Thag]"Foils"

but with coke, not meth.[/QUOTE]

Complete or not... PLEASE don't tell me you've smoked [I]cocaine[/I] on [I]foil[/I]... Maybe since it isn't a complete thought, I'm just lost.

Crack.

[QUOTE=bssmokie]Crack.[/QUOTE]
It isn't crack Hornby was talking about.

[QUOTE=spacemonkey1888]try some nutmeg and oregano[/QUOTE]

an Idle Hands fan? i'm impressionable and tried that to see if it would be as grosse as it looked, i puked and everything it was cool.

bong hits with cocaine is fun. i just call it coke, but i've always known it as blow too. i guess the multiple names for every drug don't make sense, Mary Jane? what the hell is all that about? it makes it sound like you're smoking some 50s house wife rather than weed. oh, hang on, marijuana/mary jane...nah, its still shit.

anyone see the movie "made" with john favreau and vince vaughn? favreau's "swingers" follow-up that failed miserably because it didn't have enough "you're so money, baby"-esq catch phrases? anyway, the scot (or was he welsh?) they meet to make the money drop asks them for charlie, and they're all "charlie? what?" so, they go into a long thing about candy=coke=charlie=blow=pot. see the cool stuff you learn from watching movies???

[QUOTE=ralphthompsonxxx]
Complete or not... PLEASE don't tell me you've smoked [I]cocaine[/I] on [I]foil[/I]... Maybe since it isn't a complete thought, I'm just lost.[/QUOTE]

I've seen it done. Alot.

Charlie=blow=pot?

Pot?

In Made, didn't they go to the men's room with all four guys squeezed into one stall while the Welsh dude did cocaine?

yeah dude, he wanted charlie!! but they didn't know what charlie was!! keep up, yo!

So if I "keep up," Charlie will = blow, and blow will = pot ... instead of cocaine?

christ on a crutch... yes, blow = POT to our british friends. blow = COCAIN to the americans. actually, blow = smoking pot to some americans, particularly urban americans, i.e. "who wants to blow a blunt?"

moe.ron, keeping up on the slang yo.

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