| acid | amphetamine (sulphate) |
| angel dust | basuco |
| betel | bhang / bang |
| blow | burley (tobacco) |
| cannabis (resin) | cavendish |
| charas | charlie |
| chaw | coca |
| cocaine | crack (cocaine) |
| crystal meth | dagga |
| designer drug | dope |
| downer | draw |
| dynamite | E or Es |
| Ecstasy | eight ball |
| euphoriant | filler |
| freebase (cocaine) | ganja |
| gateway drug | gear |
| GHB | grass |
| green | H |
| hashish | hemp |
| henbane | heroin |
| hop | horse |
| ibogaine | junk |
| kava | khat |
| kif/kef | kinnikinnick |
| locoweed | LSD |
| lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) | marijuana/marihuana |
| Mary Jane | mescaline/mescalin |
| meth | methamphetamine |
| methylene dioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) | muscimol |
| narceine | nicotine |
| nose candy | opiate |
| opium | paan/pan |
| perique | peyote |
| peyote buttons | pot |
| psilocybin | psychedelic drug |
| rappee | reefer |
| rock | shag (tobacco) |
| sinsemilla | skag/scag |
| skunkweed | smack |
| snow | snuff |
| speed | speedball |
| spliff | sugar |
| tendu leaf | Thai stick |
| tobacco | toot |
| upper | wacky baccy |
| weed | whizz |
| wild dagga | X |
| zarda |