The newly released footage of little Archie York's Newcastle home being blown apart last October looks like the kind of images you associate with black and white shots of a military missile strike.

It's almost beyond comprehension to imagine exactly what it was like - although Archie's mother Katherine Errington has somehow bravely managed to relive that night in an interview with me for ITV News.

She describes hearing a screaming sound before being thrown up into the air and back down again and closing her eyes as she lay in the wreckage because she thought it would be less painful to die in her sleep.

Somehow she survived along with her partner and her seven-week-old baby but seven-year-old Archie didn't.

After the final embers went out at the fire though, questions around what caused it only grew and grew.

A gas leak was mentioned. Then talk of a cannabis farm. Perhaps electrics used for heat lamps to grow weed was the cause I remember speculating to colleagues in the newsroom. I couldn't have been more wrong.

And over the last five months of an investigation for ITV News, a new word from the criminal underworld that explains what happened has been added to my every day vocabulary; and I suspect will be added to many of ours. That word is 'shatter'.

Shatter is the street word for 'shatter cannabis' - a derivative of the marijuana weed that can be home made using a few small bits of more specialised kit along with another deadly, easy to purchase ingredient: butane gas canisters.

Those cans - just like the ones you use for a camping stove or outdoor heaters - were found at the scene in Benwell in Newcastle blown apart last October.

A police investigation revealed Reece Galbraith and Jason Laws, who was killed in the blast, had been running a so-called shatter lab in the flat below Archie's family home.

Our investigation revealed shatter is readily available on North East streets - casually consumed but with mounting ignorance about the threats it poses.

Undercover we spoke to a dealer who told us without a hint of worry what he charges for shatter - around seventy to eighty quid for a standard wrap - and that he has no fear of being caught by the police.

And that dealer's shatter market is growing for good reason.

First of all, shatter gives you a much stronger high than regular cannabis because the butane gas process draws out pure THC from the cannabis leaf - that's the bit that gives you the high.

Just two drops of shatter oil - also known as butane honey oil - give you the same high reportedly as a whole joint.

But shatter's also more adaptable for sale than regular marijuana. Liquified it can be easily added into home made products like lollipops, gummies, vapes and chewing gum.

Odourless, less harmful sounding alternatives that have a big appeal; especially among young adults like students.

We spoke to one who, again casually and without care, told us that they just eat the gummies to chill out with their mates and that the university doesn't care as long "as they don't smell".

But no matter how you take your shatter - you should care.

You should care because this extra potency version of weed we learned poses a significantly higher risk to your health.

As professor of addiction at the University of York, Ian Hamilton, put it: "It's like the difference between cider and pure alcohol'." The risks of dangerous psychosis he said is considerably higher than regular marijuana.

You should also care because the sweet treats with a kicker and other shatter products all go back to serious and organised crime and all the other violent, nastiness that goes with it.

And you should also care because unlike almost any other drug on sale on our backstreets and online - the manufacture of shatter in itself poses a deadly risk - just as Archie's mother knows.

Shatter then if you didn't know before is a triple threat - and whether you're buying it, making it, selling it or unknowingly just living next door to it, this new age drug poses big questions about how best to deal with the new age cannabis trade.

Or do you still think it's just a bit of weed?