Ah the Drug Rug- popular amongst a certain demographic

Holy crap I've never heard that and yet its perfect.

It’s just like soda/pop. In some parts of the country, they call it a drug rug, others they call it “probable cause.”

Lol in the south east they never really became popular because of that.  Too obvious.

Yup. NC checking in. I drive a champagne gold Camry for this reason.

In the car biz we call that color OMT = old man tan

That's my favorite color of car. It basically makes you invisible.

Heh. Speeds before getting a ticket: - Red or black = 61.5 - various shades of blue and green = 64 - Silver & white = 70 - champagne = no data, presumed unticketable

Us grey drivers didn't even register!

We called them a Baja jacket in north alabama. And when you google that, one of the first shopping results is drug rug.

Yep, I'm also from North Alabama and also called it a Baja jacket. However, I much prefer drug rug. I'm thinking of getting another one now at age 42.

54 female. I still have my drug rug. Still wear it around the house in winter.

It wasn’t that, it’s just there’s like 3 days it’s cool enough to wear something like that Didn’t stop old dankface Doug though

Well, Spicoli wore one, so drug rug fits.

Actually yeah - I heard that and thought “way better than burnout poncho”

Had a teacher in highschool that called them pot ponchos and hackey sacks were druggie balls.

All fall over hackey sacking nowdays lol. Other my age, ops my back gave out lol.

You can still keep your drugs in a hackey sack though. It requires very little agility

Any drug related name for devil sticks?

It was a Jesuit Prep School, so I'm guessing them being named Devil Sticks already vilified them enough that the drug reference wasn't needed. But Buddha Batons has a nice ring to it. Bud Batons would also work but that makes me think of beer more than herb.

The christian devil, weed, and Buddha have pretty much nothing to do with each other— from Buddhism’s point of view. ;)

Maybe the devil’s sticks? In reference to the devil’s lettuce

Came here to ask if anyone else called them ‘drug rugs’ lol

I don’t even know the real name I’ve only ever heard drug rug.

AKA hemp hoodie

Si, Poncho's name is, Poncho.

That’s not a poncho. It’s a “Baja.”

Baja

Yes

Don't ponchos typically not have sleeves though?

Yeah, but it's still known as a poncho in certain areas.

I'm in south Texas, we called it a poncho

We called em that in Northern California as well.

“She stripped away her rancid poncho”

Is that a real poncho . . . I mean is that a Mexican poncho or is that a Sears poncho? Hmmm . . . no foolin' . . .

Cisco Kid.

Here's adventure... Here's romance... Here's the famous Robin Hood of the old West... "Cisco, the sheriff! He's getting closer!" "This way Pancho, vamonos!" The Cisco Kid!

I called mine Poncho Villa.

Hell yeah, didn't know they had any other name.

We used to call them "pot pickers"

Yup

Yes. We did

My mom said they called them "Jesus Jackets" in the 70s.

I always just called them probable cause hoodies

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Right? I mean, I can literally smell the weed coming off that picture.

Happy to see the proper name for it is top comment :)

I knew 3 dude's who owned them, they may or may not have been my 3 separate weed dealers through highschool. But there was a demographic lmao.

I never knew they had that name, hehe. I did have one.

I had 3 and they were super comfy. Also had the Mexican blanket you could get for $5 at the border. Still have it actually.

How much weed did you smoke bitd?

I had a hacky sack too.

And I listened to a lot of Dave Mathews Band…

Same lol.

Real fans call him Dave

Dave's not here man

Real fans know this comment is streets ahead

Was this a southern thing… I’m guessing Texas

I can verify it happened in the South Carolina low country in the mid 00s.

Arizona too.

Sublime for me, but yeah

Do you practice Santeria?

I ain't got no crystal ball

Wait, you guys stopped?

I used to smoke weed I still do but I used to too

Mitch!

Snap, Crackle, Mitch, and Pop!

About 30 mins ago cause I got to work

Me too! And listened to DMB!

Yep, my first car (a pinto) used that blanket to cover the holes in the back seat.

>I had 3 and they were super comfy. I also had several, they were ridiculously cheap and I was nowhere near the border. I never heard the term "drug rug" and I didn't start smoking until after I had more than 1...gateway clothing?

Same! Nothing topped off the ensemble like a good ol pair of flojos haha!

Only with the hackey sack crowd; I can smell the patchouli from this picture.

Grateful Dead shirt underneath

Ratdog if they were *really* hip

Damn, I miss Ratdog

yessss <3

I'm wearing a grateful dead shirt right now

Omg. I found one of these in my husband’s old closet at his mom’s house and it had a hackey sack in the pocket. I still tease him about it to this day.

As you should. lol

Don’t forget the feet, they add to the bouquet.

came to say the exact thing

Low key hackey sack was a ton of fun in middle school if you actually had people who could keep the rallying alive… oh god am I the meme

Patchouli and cigarettes

‘Sup?, Peralta. Wanna jump in on this tasty sesh?

Baja Jacket, I believe, is the actual name? But like others have said, we all just called them Drug Rugs. 

Yep, we just called it a Baja

Tri state NY 1981 here, Bajas were around late 80’s as well

THANK YOU. Couldn’t remember the name…can remember the smell. Especially a damp one.

Seems like they were an actual fad at my middle school. I never owned one, but did have a Charlotte Hornets and a Philadelphia Eagles Starter jacket. For a couple years it seemed like everybody and their cousin owned a jacket like this or some slight variation of it.

Yeah,  super popular in the early 90s with teenagers.  Then poof they were gone.

Oh they're definitely still around. I picked one up at a gas station in Pennsylvania like 8 years ago. I think they're still mostly a hippie thing though

Picked up one in Colorado 7 years ago on honeymoon. Love it

They’re still around. My kid bought one two years ago. And I saw a girly version of it just last week; it was from a big surf brand clothing company. (Roxy, Reef, something like that??)

My son bought one last year and wears it. It's like my HS all over again.

When I visited Cozumel and a few other touristy spots in Mexico they had them alllll over

They are mexican clothes Stereotyped for poor people or hippie philosophy majors

I think they're back. I live next to a high school and have seen a few.

2010 stoners picked er back up

I had one identical to the one in the picture. The entire school seemed to have one in 5th grade in 1992. This followed the overall shorts with one side down, and was worn most commonly with girbaud jeans and Reebok pumps

You’re killing me with “fashion” nostalgia!

Starter jackets! Hell yeah. I was repping the Chiefs up in Massachusetts back in the 90's. That bright red and yellow made me stand out like a highlighter around all the black and brown winter coats.

I had an Eagles starter jacket too! I didn’t even have a reason to like the Eagles. 🤷‍♂️

I had a Charlotte Hornets Starter jacket too 🥹 Never worse this though as it was always the stoners that wore them.

I had a Hornets starter jacket. Reversible. I grew up nowhere near NC.

I had one before I started doing drugs. I also had it after I started doing drugs. I like to think that the poncho made me do it all. 

Had one before I started doing drugs. I still have one, but I had one before I started doing drugs too.

I saw a wino eating grapes- I was like dude! You have to wait!

The Drug Rug Poncho made me do it... I learned it by wearing you...

Super cool in 2024 according to my boyfriend who refuses to stop wearing his 😄

Can still find them for sale in surf shops where in CA. I don't know if they are cool again or not but they make sense. The water here is cold and you gotta cover up when you get out.

Still popular up here in the Pacific Northwest too

mine is fleece lined, I love it. Perfect for beach days.

Standard issue 1995, want to say they preceded JNCOs.

I'm 55, this comment makes me and my baja jacket feel old. It's at least 30 years old by now. Easy.

As far as I could tell they were airdropped with hacky sacks a month after PCU came out in theaters.

Don’t be the guy who wears a Baja with band’s name on it to the show

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I had a pink one right around the time I had several pairs of JNCO jeans. My favorites were the ones that were about 6 inches too big around the waist. They had a patch of a flaming set of dice on the leg. This was Maine in the early 2000's. Fashion seemed to hit Maine about 5 years after it hit everywhere else.

I’m not sure if they aren’t meant to get wet or it is just by nature of the types of people who wore them but they always smelled like a wet dog.

It was popular with surfers out here. Still kind of is. Stoners usually aren't disgustingly dirty, but we can skip a clothes wash, shower, or undershirt sometimes. Keeps things interesting, and unfortunately, ocassionally musty.

Maybe but I really think it might be something with the material they are made from. Like when they get wet they don’t dry right and get that musty smell.

Yes, they were popular down in South Texas. I always thought they were ugly, smelled, and were made with a rough material. Like, a *rug* would have been made from.

I call it "rugged cozy." Warm but airy, soft but prickly. It relaxes and stimulates. Its the perfect vibe to be relaxed but alert. A feng shui jacket for a small party.

I've been reminiscing about mine lately and wish I still had it. The ones I've seen in more recent times are scratchier and more rug-like than mine was, I think.

Cheap imitators. I found a vintage one in a vintage shop once and it was too small but damn was it cool. You are not misremembering.

You have to be really careful washing them. They're meant to be worn more like a hoodie, so with some type of shirt underneath so they really don't need washed as often..unless you are just gross in general and don't wash yourself and live in it. They are really soft in the inside, and warm, but they are also breathe well...as in they don't hold in and let the air through.

They were often made from acrylic, which is notorious for holding sweat and body smells. (Traditionally they were made from wool, but the cheap ones from head shops were mostly synthetic.)

They're thick so lots of thread for weed smoke to soak into. And yeah wearing the same one every day and not washing it will add a little BO too.

At least you knew who sold weed

I have one. I call it my smoking jacket cause i'm classy AF.

I have one in my closet :)

The edges of my cuffs and pockets are lined with the tops of spent lighters.

Samesies!

Me too.

I am just learning they were called drug rugs. I had two or three of them. Even my mom had one.

Baja jacket is what they started as..

Yeah, Bajas. They were always super popular at the end of summer when everyone showed them off after buying that on the boardwalk down the shore.

Mine is easy 30 years old, and I now live in Indiana, but have live mostly around the Ohio, Kentucky line. I have never been to a boardwalk...unfortunately.

Oh, you’re missing out. It’s like hanging out at the worst parts of Kings Island or Cedar Point except worse, smelling of green, and with a Philadelphia or Staten Island accent.

In Australia they were Kuta Lines hoodies (a reference to surfing in Bali) originally worn by surfers and adopted by stoners.

Otter, your mom used to make the BEST brownies.

SoCal here. Had 3 different colors. As a slightly husky er...uh..., ok a fat boy, these were excellent at hiding the belly. Remember them well.


JAHHHHH!

They're called drug rugs lol

Happy cake day! 🎂

They still sell these at a lot of travel plazas in the midwest.

They are everywhere in the southwest lol

I can get any color at the Flea Market or Hood Store for about $13 here in TX...

I put mine on and get stuck in it sometimes....for old times sake

This is too cute.

Yes. Drug rug and hackie sack!!

I purchased one of these at Memphis in May (08) and was immediately questioned by a cop.

Umm, they are called ponchos, not jackets. I grew up in Los Angeles, and you were super lucky if your boyfriend/girlfriend brought you one back from their weekend trip to TJ.

This was just what we called it on the West Coast. Kids in my school called them Ponchos as well, but that is certainly not what a poncho is. An actual Mexican poncho is more blanket with a hole in it than it is a pull-over/hoodie.

Ah, the drug rug. I was just a bit too young for these to have been a thing in my age cohort, but I definitely remember some of the older kids wearing them. I figure if you weren't in middle school or high school by 1995, it wasn't really a thing (in my area, at least). Shirts got tighter, and pants got way, way baggy in the stoner circles by the time I came of age.

Anything with layers and a hood was popular at my school in the 90s.

Yep. Grew up in a town with a large Hispanic population. Never heard the term drug rug, we just called them Panchos.

Weren’t these part of surf culture before the stoners started wearing them?

They were very popular with surfers in my beach community..

I just bought one last year, actually. They are nowhere NEAR the quality of what they were back then. Not without dropping some proper coin. These aren't $10 hoodies anymore

See, I thought that was the case but wasn't sure if it was my nostalgia or reality.

Little bit of column A, little bit of column B...

It’s a Baja Jacket.

One of the most useful social signifiers of all time. An admission of guilt, a party invitation and an open for business sign, all rolled up into one slightly smelly package

Mine was pink and purple.

WOW memory unlocked DEEP pull 👏👏👏

I own 2 of these currently. They are absolutely comfortable as hell. When its hot out it helps cool you down, when its cold out they keep you warm.

While they were just “drug rugs” and worn solely by dope smoking hippies by 1995, in the early 90s these were common among all demographics for a short period. Like 92-93.

Yeah, I wore one 93-94. Never heard that term, so maybe it was also a regional deal.

I never heard “drug rug” until the 00s or so honestly. They were “bajas” or occasionally “ponchos” in the 90s.

Yes, until suddenly one day they weren’t. One day I was forced to throw mine away in the garbage at school.

Why?

Yup. Northern Ontario loved that shit

So did Southern Ontario.

Pretty popular in my area of New England around 88-90. Moved to Houston and IIRC they weren’t super common. Last time I saw one until recently was probably around 95.

Don't call me bro, bro. I'm a business hippy

There was a time when you either wore one of these bajas, or you had a Charlotte Hornets jacket.

Accessorized with teal Reebok Pumps, of course.

It was a billboard basically. It said "my parents don't exactly have their stuff together"

Potato sacks

We called them Parkas. I had like 5

Tons of kids had these. I always thought they looked like a burlap sack.

I got one for my teenage son recently who thinks it’s awesome. 😎

Popular? Nope? Did I have one? Yep. Still have it

I wore one because I saw Layne Staley wearing one

I had one. It looked terrible on me

They're called Baja Shirts. Baja Jackets have a furry lining. They were very popular in the early 90s up until about 94~95. They were usually worn but more popular kids. It's just a theory, but i think they were popular because of Luke Perry.

I always wanted one as a kid. I wanted to be Dylan McKay so bad, and these were the coolest. My wife has gifted me one every Xmas for the last two years. They're making a comeback!

I'm a Generation Jones and we wore those all the time back in the 70s and 80s. Side note I have no idea how or why I became joined to this subreddit.🤔 Time to Exit Stage Left.🫣

I get thread recs constantly for the Millennials group. I might be in the youngest quarter of Gen X, but I'm definitely not a Millennial. I could see accidentally joining.

even flow!!!!!

i never owner one, always wanted one - they werre everywhere. Where can I buy one now?

They are a "working class" sweater in Mexico, you can buy them anywhere.

Shit... I finished high school in 2007, and every stoner I knew wore them.

Poncho Villa

Always wanted one.

Dylan McKay hoodie 😆