The monkey dust capital of Britain: How UK city is being devastated by terrifying synthetic drug

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1. It’s not actual dessicated ground monkey, is it?

2. I miss the show Monkey Dust, that was dark.

3. Classic bath salts

4. Walking around Hanley now is not unlike the aftermath of Shaun of the Dead, where the zombies have integrated into society… kind of.

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6. And in another 5 years they’ll be a different drug of choice. Growing up as a kid in the 90’s it was crack and it was pretty rampant around towns and citys. No one’s gonna stop them from taking them.

7. I went to stoke back in 2018, I’m not surprised by this

8. It’s no longer Stoke on Trent – it’s Stoke on Dust

9. ultimately, another example of disastrous “war on drugs” policy. ban and restrict supply of amphetamine, and in its place came a raft of modified cathinones (initially marketed as legal highs), structurally similar to speed, but orders of magnitude more harmful and addictive. See the same with CR-agonists (psychosis inducing synthetic weed), “prohormones” (extra-toxic versions of anabolic steroids) .. maybe it’s time to try a more progressive approach to drug use.

10. Mexican American here- what is monkey dust.

11. I can’t be bothered to hunt it down but this is literally a rehash of the same story, same rag from a year or two ago

12. ‘In 2016, he was jailed for a year and a half for punching through the window of a Natwest while arguing with himself.’

13. A shockingly sympathetic article from the Daily Mail! No screeching about criminals or the children and even the part about how elderly people don’t want to leave their homes was measured and non-hysterical.

    The way we deal with drugs in this country just makes things worse and worse and worse. Copying America and Nixon’s aggressively stupid ‘war on drugs’ was a terrible decision.

    Legalise it (except for the most extreme/toxic options, which should still have usage decriminalised so people can get help), regulate it, treat people who become addicted (using the brand new tax revenue from legalising it!)

14. An someone please summarise daily mail articles so we don’t have to click to find out what this is about?

15. Didn’t even need to open this to know it’s Stoke. Breaks my heart, I moved down south years ago but I grew up in Stoke and I’m a proud Potter, the city is fucked. I go to see my family and it’s not the Stoke I grew up in, it was never perfect, but it wasn’t like this – I’d always felt safe there and not now. The crackheads and alcoholics are now on this shit and they’re like zombies, but what else have they got? The health services have been destroyed, support for vulnerable kids is gone. Iirc they have an abnormally high child mortality rate there. I’m scared for my little niblings, wtf are they going to grow up in.

16. “…similar to MSMA”.

    Ah yes; MSMA “or Monosodium Methanearsonate, an organic arsenical herbicide used to control various grasses and broadleaf weeds, particularly in cotton fields, and golf courses.”

    As a Mail reader, I believe MSMA was the catalyst in starting the Rave scene in the early 90s. Either that, or Mail Online can’t be arsed to proofread their articles before publication.

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