When i was about 7 my older cousin (9 year) who was wery found of Jimmy Henrix told me that dope or junk was small pills like whole blackpepper and when your chewed them it make a cracking sound. For that they called them dope or junk.
A childhood belief about drugs

others believed things like this
- Remember the old Tubes song "White Punks on Dope". Thought they were singing "White Folks are Dumb"
— WailerMan - When me and my brother were kids we used to think that Jim'll Fix it's Jimmy Saville was called Jim'llAnon
- When I was very small. by older brother told me that if I "Kissed my own elbow, I would turn into a boy."Anon
- I use to believe the sound that a car made when it was running low on gas was what they called horse power...— Bianca
- When I was little my dad told me that if I chewed on aluminum foil I would pick up radio stations. — Alex Allegretto
- i used to beleive that if you chewed gum it woul give you warts in your mouth my sister told me this— sunney jim of the pearl