MP in call for a Commons debate about monkey dust

Drug ‘causing significant harm’ in city

- Phil Corrigan Local Democracy Reporter

A STOKE-on-Trent MP has called for a parliamentary debate about the impact of monkey dust.

Allison Gardner, Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent South, told the House of Commons that synthetic cathinones - the class of drug which includes monkey dust - were having a ‘significant impact’ on communities in the Potteries.

She asked leader of the house Sir Alan Campbell to make time for a Commons debate on the subject.

North Staffordshire is recognised nationally as a hotspot for monkey dust use, with cathinone-related deaths much more common here than in other parts of the country.