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But there were some terrible drugs, angel dust, all that stuff.
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Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2025
There’s his not-unrelated falling in with the hardened criminal elements of his Connecticut hometown, and his increasing dependence on drugs from marijuana to painkillers to angel dust.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Ketamine was the more practical stepchild of a more potent and longer acting drug that was developed in the 1950s, called phencyclidine or angel dust.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
There were the PSAs with stars like Ally Sheedy, Kirk Cameron, and Pee-wee Herman delivering dramatic monologues slipped into our after-school specials (many of which had their own anti-drug messaging; one about angel dust, starring Helen Hunt, remains imprinted in my brain.
—Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2020
The history of ketamine Ketamine was first synthesized in 1962 by American scientist Calvin Stevens, who was searching for an anesthetic alternative to phencyclidine, also called PCP or angel dust.
—Laura Newberrystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
On August 27, the Nova Scotia Department of Health sent producer Jon Landau a letter stating that its inspection confirmed the lobster chowder contained PCP, a hallucinogen also known as angel dust.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2022
Prosecutors allege that Lewis and an associate, who were both involved in the drug trade, were driving around South Boston in July 1984 searching for another drug dealer suspected of telling Bulger that Lewis’s associate was selling angel dust.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
Friends said that before his death, Mr. Prude had begun to rely more heavily on the drug PCP, also known as angel dust, which can cause erratic behavior.
—New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
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Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2025
There’s his not-unrelated falling in with the hardened criminal elements of his Connecticut hometown, and his increasing dependence on drugs from marijuana to painkillers to angel dust.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Ketamine was the more practical stepchild of a more potent and longer acting drug that was developed in the 1950s, called phencyclidine or angel dust.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
There were the PSAs with stars like Ally Sheedy, Kirk Cameron, and Pee-wee Herman delivering dramatic monologues slipped into our after-school specials (many of which had their own anti-drug messaging; one about angel dust, starring Helen Hunt, remains imprinted in my brain.
—Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2020
The history of ketamine Ketamine was first synthesized in 1962 by American scientist Calvin Stevens, who was searching for an anesthetic alternative to phencyclidine, also called PCP or angel dust.
—Laura Newberrystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
On August 27, the Nova Scotia Department of Health sent producer Jon Landau a letter stating that its inspection confirmed the lobster chowder contained PCP, a hallucinogen also known as angel dust.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2022
Prosecutors allege that Lewis and an associate, who were both involved in the drug trade, were driving around South Boston in July 1984 searching for another drug dealer suspected of telling Bulger that Lewis’s associate was selling angel dust.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
Friends said that before his death, Mr. Prude had begun to rely more heavily on the drug PCP, also known as angel dust, which can cause erratic behavior.
—New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
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