Monkey Dust

[nailit]

'Is monkey dust' the new heroin?
Came across the below video in my FB newsfeed today. It appears to portray Stoke on Trent as a city of 'dust heads'. Its not. Just got its share of drug problems like any other city.
Just like to know, what is the monkey dust drug problem like where you live and is it worse than the heroin problem (Has monkey dust become the new heroin?)
Thanks.

[nailit]

[Barmaid]

I had never heard of monkey dust!

[TonyV]

Never heard of it, but then not likely to have, but some interesting information here?

https://www.thisisinsider.com/what-is-monkey-dust-2018-8

[nailit]

BM, you do surprise me!
A lawyer thats never come across a defendant on monkey dust?
Seriously?

[Peter Pedant]

BM is a nayce laydee who doesnt do crims
more technically is a chancery lawyer - the ones you find in Dickens Bleak house

[Peter Pedant]

er does it have a long latin name ?

[sanmac]

Peter, Bleak House sounds like a monkey-dust den in Stoke:)

[Barmaid]

Seriously! I haven't been inside a criminal court for a very long time.

[nailit]

OK BM, Thanks,
Bit surprised tho anyway that you havnt come across it.
(might be a Stokie thing...)

[spathiphyllum]

it's like spice aint it? some synthetic crap

No problem where i'm from AFAIK

[SIRandyraven]

Hopefully it is lethal and culls the junkies from the streets.
Job done.

[Peter Pedant]

// Hopefully it is lethal and culls the junkies from the streets.
Job done.//

disastrous way of thinking - Sir jamz did that in Manchester in the eighties
More clearly - Sir James Anderton underpoliced ( more interested in prozzies see) the heroin trade in M and thought they would kill each other and then he could march in ( see Russian in Poland in 1944 ) and claim the peace, gongs and knighthoods and perhaps a larger pension !

it didnt work like that
thet trade blossomed and was a big prob for his successors
he got the gong and knighthood and probably a Very Large Pension
so he would say it worked for him

[Peter Pedant]

// it's like spice aint it? some synthetic crap //

not helpful - I think you should be using 'synfetic'

as in - - its new and synfetic yeah?

anyone know the long name?

[Zacs-Master]

For full effect, surely you should miss the ‘t’ out too?

[pixie374]

Never heard of it. PP, according to tony's link, it is methylenedioxypyrovalerone, or MDPV.