WordNet
n. a narcotic that is considered relatively strong
Usage examples of "hard drug".
The strategy of separating cannabis sales from hard drug dealers by bringing pot above-ground has been quite successful.
Of course, it wasn't immune from things like robbery, murder, rollin', and hard drug sellin', but the fact was it was pretty well self-policed and while there was drugs aplenty there was no big scorin' to be done there.
When Anslinger got Congress to classify it asfor all practical purposesa hard drug, he really loused up the development of American society and the mobility of its classes.
There are sectors of American society that profit from the hard drug trade, like the big international banks that do the money laundering or the chemical corporations that provide the chemicals for the industrial production of hard drugs.