I'll be spending the first week of January in Montreal, where I like to go for 6 or 7 vacations (only two are entire week trips) in the course of a year. I was hoping to speak to a knowledgable native of the great city to identify a few things for me. One--at the drug spot leaving the Berri-UQAM metro, the one right in front of that church, I keep buying this strange white powder which the dealers call "mescaline," although it clearly isn't. Twice it was DXM, and then once (the one time I bought 40 bags of it) it was a drug I haven't been able to identify... a perfect mood lifter, it was utter contentedness for the two weeks I spent on it, but with little to no actual drug-like qualities. Spent a long time searching for a match on Erowid, but haven't been able to find it. Second of all, what substances are doing well in Montreal right now? What can I expect to find? And thirdly, some friends of mine had come back from a trip recently to say that several times dealers were offering them "choves" or "chodes," they had some trouble making it out do to the thick french accent. Explain? Thanks.