Warning as ‘Hulk’ drug hits streets

WARNINGS have been issued that a powerful synthetic drug dubbed ‘monkey dust’ is beginning to spread to the streets of Birmingham selling for just £2.

The illegal substance is sweeping the UK, reportedly giving users the sense that they are “the Hulk” because of its mind-altering effects.

Users have been sent into violent and psychotic episodes in Stoke-on-Trent, where a man high on monkey dust was arrested after trying to put out a lit cigarette with a petrol pump last week.

Known as ‘zombie dust’ and ‘cannibal dust’ in the US, the drug looks like an off-white powder and is said to stop users from feeling pain and causes hallucinations, agitation and severe paranoia.

It can also induce hypothermia by producing high body temperatures.

Use of the drug is increasing across the UK, with reports of people in the Midlands climbing buildings and trees, running into traffic and attacking people who have approached them while under the influence of the substance, according to an alert shared by law firms.

In Birmingham, a homeless man told how he had tried the “devil’s drug ” after meeting a friend from Stoke.

The user said: “It’s just a nasty, horrible drug, I have smoked it twice and I woke up wondering what had happened. It just numbs you.”

In the past year the city has seen rising numbers of incidents involving illegal highs like black mamba and spice.