Re: Warning: Cannabis contaminated with lead shot

Aidy wrote:
> Why do you think it's called "dope"?

Don't know. Why?
Most of the usages of it are improvements!

Dope; from the Dutch, Doop, sauce.
1. any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in
preparing 
a surface.
2. an absorbent material used to absorb and hold a liquid, as in the 
manufacture of dynamite.
3. Aeronautics. any of various varnishlike products for coating a fabric,
as 
of airplane
wings, in order to make it waterproof, stronger, etc.
4. Slang. a. any narcotic or narcoticlike drug taken to induce euphoria or

satisfy addiction.
b. any illicit drug.
5. Slang. a narcotic preparation given surreptitiously to a horse to
improve 
or retard its
performance in a race.
6. Slang. information, data, or news: What's the latest dope on the
strike?
7. Informal. a stupid or unresponsive person.
8. Electronics. to add or treat (a pure semiconductor) with a dopant.
9. Slang. to take drugs.
10. Automotive. additive used to improve performance of auto-racing fuel.
11. Automotive. additive used to improve performance of lubricant.

Personally I think the current usage comes from the aircraft dope used on 
fabric wings. If you are using it in the old fashoned way by brush in a 
closed hangar you do get a bit stoned from the thinners.

Slatts