Sep 29, 2019 · “Dope” – It Doesn’t Just Mean Weed Anymore. One of the clearest examples of how drug slang evolves is the term “dope.” Throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, dope was synonymous with marijuana.

"administer a drug to," 1889, from dope (n.). To dope out "figure out, clarify," is by 1906 in U.S. slang, from the "inside information" sense in the noun. Related: Doped; doping.

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Dope, from the Dutch word doop, is actually a gravy or a sauce, so how did we go from gravy to drugs? Lexicographer Ben Zimmer gives KUOW's Ross Reynolds the straight dope on dope.

Sep 11, 2018 · Doping, for “performance-enhancing drugs” like steroids banned in sports, came into the spotlight during scandals in baseball, cycling, and the Olympics in the 1990–2000s. Particularly prominent was Lance Armstrong, the tarnished Tour de France champion who admitted to doping in 2013.

Aug 14, 2021 · Benjamin T. Smith explains in “The Dope” why policing has failed to stop the drug trade from Mexico, and why violence keeps rising.

May 1, 2022 · This book is the trade-book version of all that remarkable research. As Benjamin Smith informs the reader, “The Dope is a work of popular history. . . . As such, the text is unencumbered by the usual footnotes, endnotes, and the nods to academic allies.

Benjamin T. Smith, The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade. New York: W. W. Norton, 2021. Christy Thornton

Jun 21, 2021 · InSight Crime sat down with The Dope’s author, Benjamin T. Smith, a historian of modern Mexico and professor at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, to unpack misperceptions of trade and discuss shifts in its dynamics over the last century.