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Global View - Drugs #D0279

A: Hey man, you wanna buy some weed?

B: Some what?

A: Weed! You know? Pot, Ganja, Mary Jane some chronic!

B: Oh, umm, no thanks.

A: I also have blow if you prefer to do a few lines.

B: No, I am ok, really.

A: Come on man! I even got dope and acid! Try some!

B: Do you really have all of these drugs? Where do you get them from?

A: I got my connections! Just tell me what you want and I’ll even give you one ounce for free.

B: Sounds good! Let’s see, I want.

A: Yeah?

B: I want you to put your hands behind your head! You are under arrest!

Key Vocabulary

weed - a drug, marijuana

come on - to ask someone to do something (informal)

connection - a person, especially one of influence or importance, with whom one is associated

under arrest - the act of legally taking someone to jail

Supplementary Vocabulary

illicit - illegal, not authorized

undercover - to work under the disguise of someone else

rehab - a place to recover from addiction

withdrawal - to stop using something; the feeling you get when you stop using drugs

craving - a desire to do something (eat, do drugs, smoke, etc.)

high - a feeling you get when you are on drugs

hallucinate - to have hallucinations, where your brain imagines things that are not there