Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. anything smokeable, e.g. tobacco, marijuana, parsley, mixed with phencyclidine or occas. LSD.

1969		R.R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z (1970).
1969		Rolling Stone 28 June 4/1: Parsley can give a more powerful high on marijuana. The garden herb, says Olas Hendrickson, is the basic ingredient in a new psychedelic substance called ‘Angels’ [sic] Dust’.
1971		R. Woodley Dealer 126: ‘There’s angel dust—that’s parsley dipped in acid. That’s a high’.
1979		H. Feldman et al. Angel Dust 73: Relatively small groups of officionados smoked it either as ‘angel dust’ (PCP-treated parsley) or ‘killer weed’ (PCP-treated marihuana).
1981		Spears Sl. and Jargon of Drugs and Drink (1986).
2010		Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 193: Booze, junk, coke, crack, angel dust, or a cocktail of two or more.

2. a mixture of cocaine, heroin and morphine, which can be smoked or injected.

1973

Maurer & Vogel Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction in Maurer Lang. Und. (1981).

3. finely chopped marijuana.

1973		Maurer & Vogel Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction in Maurer Lang. Und. (1981).
1977		S.N. Pradhan Drug Abuse.

4. (also angel’s dust) phencyclidine.

1971		E.E. Landy Underground Dict. (1972).
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 256: I thank my angel’s dust because it’s the most wonderful wonder in the world it helps me makes me want to flyyyyyyyyyy!
1984		C. White Life and Times of Little Richard 170: They use all types of narcotics. They go from marijuana to angel dust.
1992		T. Williams Crackhouse 151: spacebase cigar with tobacco removed and refilled with angel dust (PCP) and crack-cocaine.
1998		Mack 10 ‘Ghetto Horror Show’ 🎵 Somebody ease the pain I need a shot of novacaine / Or angel dust smoke circulatin through my brain.
2005		E. White My Lives 280: Hopped up on blackbirds, yellow jackets, PCP and joints sprayed with angel dust.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 7/1: angel dust n. 1 phencyclidine (PCP).
2006		B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] [H]e became delusionary on angel dust (phencyclidine – a depressant and hallucinogen) and heard the voice of his son telling him to kill seven people.

5. (N.Z. prison) heroin.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 7/1: angel dust 2 heroin.

6. (N.Z. prison) any powdered drug taken via inhalation.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 7/1: angel dust 3 any drug substance that is snorted.