Warning over new ‘pink cocaine’ drug that turns customers into ‘possessed demons’

Party season sellers are flooding the UK with a designer drug that’s turned customers into “possessed demons”.

“Pink cocaine” – a mixture of Ketamine and MDMA – is excessive in demand this Christmas and has already left its mark. One pupil who snorted the powder, often known as 2CB or tussi, was hospitalised after being reworked right into a “wild animal”.

Paramedics in Belfast handled the 18-year-old party-goer who needed to be restrained by police as he lay bare and lined in blood after taking the drug.

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Witnesses mentioned he was making “inhuman and demonic noises” and attempting to eat the pavement like he’d been possessed.

The strawberry-smelling powder left six different individuals – one important – in Newcastle in hospital and has been present in Manchester and at a pageant in rural Lincolnshire.

Now police in cities throughout the UK are on alert amid intelligence medication gangs are sourcing it kind Colombian cartels.

Experts have warned pink cocaine can include a probably deadly mixture of ‘dealers leftovers’ – placing customers susceptible to blurred imaginative and prescient, panic assaults, nervousness, dependancy and coronary heart issues.

We discovered a bunch of web sites on Telegram and the darkish net promoting the drug within the UK. It is available in powder kind for round £80 a gram or 100-drop liquid vials for round £200. Users are advised 1-2 drops give “good trips and visuals”.

A supplier in Manchester mentioned: “It’s pretty popular in the clubs and especially around Christmas and New Year when everyone’s out and partying so the demand is high.

“It comes in with other cocaine shipments from Colombia as it’s manufactured over there.

“And there’s big money because you can get it cheap at source where it’s made then sell it on for huge profit. You don’t need to mix it as it’s already done so it’s good to go.”

Last yr a British medication gang was busted for dealing in Ibiza. They have been caught with 13 kilos of pink cocaine, with a avenue worth of £1.1 million.

Twelve individuals have been arrested on the island and one other two in Colombia, the place they’d gone to thrash out a deal.

The Guardia Civil described the mini cartel, armed with a sub machine gun and silencer, as primarily British and “of a very violent nature” who specialised in stealing from different medication gangs.

Dr Hannah Thurgur, a researcher on the Drugs Science charity, mentioned: “Pink cocaine is an emerging drug. The challenge comes in knowing what else it could be mixed with which is why we need more projects which will check drugs for users.”