All we learn about monkey mud as mum opens up on ‘life ruining’ habit

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Monkey dust is a cheap synthetic drug – costing just £2 per hit – that gives users an instant sense of euphoria as well as mind bending hallucinations as one mum called it ‘worse than crack’

Here is everything we know as a mum launches a campaign against monkey dust

1. A mum’s horror monkey dust addiction left her hallucinating visions of dead family members and smashing up cars in a drug-fuelled frenzy.
2. Shannon Cowan has been sober for 14 months and is now campaigning to raise awareness of the synthetic drug, she says is “worse than crack”.
3. The 29-year-old, from Biddulph near Stoke-on-Trent, said her life was “destroyed” by monkey dust which costs just £2 per hit. The mum explained she got hooked on the dangerous stimulant after suffering severe domestic abuse.
4. But now she is fighting back and is urging the Government to upgrade monkey dust from a Class B drug to Class A. She told said: “I started this petition because I’ve seen and experienced how this drug ruins lives.”
5. Shannon explained how she got hooked: “A partner I had was an on-and-off monkey dust user. At the time, I knew he was taking something, but I didn’t really know what. It made him violent and unable to control his temper.”
6. She explained she was “placed into a new property after that and ended up getting mixed up with what I thought were new friends. That led to a monkey dust addiction of my own.”

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