dope

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Since the dope was approved in 1959 there suffer with been on the brink of no clinical studies performed. be that as it may, in 1997 after 24 cases of magnanimity valve blight in Fen-Phen users, fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine were recognizance enchanted off the make available at the call of the FDA.

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  1. noun Informal A narcotic, especially an addictive narcotic.
  2. noun Informal Narcotics considered as a group.
  3. noun Informal An illicit drug, especially marijuana.
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  • Since the dope was approved in 1959 there suffer with been on the brink of no clinical studies performed. be that as it may, in 1997 after 24 cases of magnanimity valve blight in Fen-Phen users, fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine were recognizance enchanted off the make available at the call of the FDA. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Well ya big dope, that is a list of crimes per capita. —  Democratic National Committee
  • Reading about how some other dope committed a major federal felony and now has the FBI after him over $1,237.43, or how he did so for an alluring "undisclosed amount of cash," which our dope is going to read as "an amount so vast no one wants to talk about it." —  The Daily News - News
  • "We got one jug of firststage dope, which is going to be the ether, anhydrous ammonia, lithium and ephedrine still in the chemical-reaction stage," Mitchell explained. —  seMissourian.com Headlines
  • If you want to smoke dope, then please don't try and glamorize it. —  Marshall Democrat-News Headlines
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  1. Dutch doop, sauce, from doopen, to dip.

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  1. from Dutch doop, sauce, dip, baptism, from doopen, dip, baptize: see dip, and cf. dop, doper.
 

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