Slang Terms for Drugs

Charlie, charge, chang, chaz, coke, coca paste, snow, toot, koka, sniff, atta. = cocaine
Pot, herb, mary jane, chronic, draw, ganja, zoot, draw= Marijuana
rock, smack, snowballs = Crack

MARIJUANA

Cannabis, also known as marijuana,ganjaThe herbal form of the drug consists of dried mature Flowers and subtending leaves of pistillate ("female") plants.

Heroin

Crack/cocaine is a highly addictive form of cocaine that is popular for its intense High. It is a form of the drug that is made using baking soda (sodium barcbonate) in a process to convert cocaine hydrochloride (powder cocaine) into freebase cocaine (methylbenzoylecgonine).

Definition of drug

A drug, broadly speaking, is any substance that alters normal bodily function. There is no single, precise definition, as there are different meanings in medicine, government regulations, and colloquial usage

Stastics on Drugs

500,000 - the estimated number of UK class A drug users
6,186 - the number of drug treatment and testing orders issued by courts last year
5,419 - the number of drug treatment and testing orders breached last year
£390m - the national budget for drugs action teams in 2002
£19m - the amount drug action teams spent on detox last year
£3,000 - the lowest cost for an individual detox
6,333 - the maximum number of detoxes paid for by drug action teams
3,800 - the number of users who successfully go through detox
3,500 - the number of places available for them in rehabilitation schemes
2,415 - the number who will complete the course
1,328 - the number who will emerge drug-free

Gang Documentaries Research

Production Plan

1. Crime dictionary defenition.
2.Montage of crime with contrapuntal music .
3. title CRIME in brick effect.
4.2 minute voice of god crime facts .
5. Interview with the police man with showing a drug dealing with contrapuntal music for comedic effect.
6. 3 way split screen of preparation of drugs while music is climaxing.
7. After drug is consumed the drug addict looks relified and the music slows down.
8. Interview with drug dealer, why? when? how?
9.Interview with crack head
10. Map of drug trail.
11. Part 2 robbery.

Interviews

We want to interview a high ranking police officer as to get the most detail due to experience and knowledge, his views on whether the government is (and the police) dealing with it in a suitable manner. We are hoping for the Officer to say "we have got it under control" or anything amongst them lines....! We want to get a drug dealers side of the story, and what factors - whether the stereotypical factors or other reasons - why the "bad side"? We also want to interview a 'crackhead' as to why they smoke crack and in some cases heroin, we were aiming to have someone injecting on the camera, however not all people are comfortable on the subject, so we changed the idea to smoking crack and sniffing a line of cocaine. Furthermore we want to express that in some cases it is not only 'bittys' on road who consume 'hard drugs.)