Commonly considered a blaxploitation film, the plot centers on Moore's character, a retired cop, who owns and operates a disco and tries to shut down the local angel dust dealer after his nephew (played by Julius Carry) gets "whacked out" on the drug.
Ian Gallagher was born in 1996, the product a PCP-feuled affair between his mother Monica and an as-yet unspecified brother of Gallagher family patriarch Frank in the summer of 1995.
This includes drugs less immediately classed to a slowing of the metabolism such as with GABAergics like GHB or glutamatergic antagonists like PCP or Ketamine.
However, in the second season, Robinson's character figured more prominently, especially in the episode "Gonna Fly Now." In this episode, viewers learned that Phil Jeffers was a recovering drug addict (specifically PCP) who became hooked at the age of 12.
Cheech explains that the reason Santa's sleigh can fly is because of the liberal use of "magic dust" and that an uncomfortable experience with Border Patrol prompted him to go underground.
In a study reported in Forensic Science International, A.J. Jenkins, at the Office of the Cuyahoga County Coroner (Cleveland, OH), the author reports the analysis of ten randomly collected one-dollar bills from five cities, and tested for cocaine, heroin, 6-acetylmorphine (also called "6-AM"), morphine, codeine, methamphetamine, amphetamine and phencyclidine (PCP).
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) that is published by the American Psychiatric Association lists hyperacusis as one of the possible signs indicating phencyclidine (PCP or Angel-dust) intoxication.