(slang, uncountable) A hallucinogen (2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine), chemically related to amphetamine but with LSD-like effects.
“Don,” she cries, breathless. “We got some STP today.” At this time STP is a pretty big deal, remember; nobody yet knew what it was and it was relatively, although just relatively, hard to come by. 1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
I could not correctly estimate what I was experiencing, and the strychnine in the STP began cramping my belly. 2021, Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco, Grove Press, published 2022, page 128: