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- Authorities at popular resorts are warning against the increasingly popular drug “pink cocaine”, which is a mixture of ketamine and ecstasy.
- The substance, which is known for its pink colour, can cause serious health consequences, such as heart problems and strokes.
- The Spanish authorities have launched an information campaign to warn the population and tourists.
- The substance has also been found in Norway.
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Summer is in full swing, and with it comes party-ready tourists.
This causes the authorities in several popular resorts, such as Ibiza and Mallorca, to warn against the increasingly popular drug “pink cocaine”.
The characteristic pink substance, which is also called rosada, tusi, nexus and eros, does not contain cocaine, but is a mixture of ketamine and ecstasy.
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Found laboratory
It was in the summer of 2021 that Spanish police seized around 13 kilograms of “pink cocaine” on the party island of Ibiza.
This is said to have been Spain’s first encounter with the relatively new, life-threatening mixture.
Until then, the drug was smuggled to holiday destinations. In 2022, the police in Madrid discovered a laboratory where the substance was produced, the police announced in a press release.
In February this year, the alarm bells began to ring in earnest. A 14-year-old boy died in Madrid after drinking an energy drink laced with the pink substance.
His parents claim that he and two friends met someone they met through Instagram, and that the boy had no idea that the energy drink contained drugs.
The police warn: – A bomb
At the latest on Monday this week, three people were arrested in the same city, reports the newspaper La Razon.
In total, the three had over 30 grams of “pink cocaine” which, according to the police, was intended to be sold.
REVEALED: The large seizure of, among other things, pink cocaine after a police operation in Madrid in 2022. Photo: Police
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Sold in social media
In the new BBC documentary “Ibiza: Secrets of the Party Island”, light is shed on the growing problem with, among other things, “pink cocaine”, and how social media plays a role in the spread of the drug.
In the documentary, presenter Zara McDermott, who is known in the UK from the reality series “Love Island”, talks about her own experience, according to The Times.
– When I mention that I am in Ibiza, people have contacted me with offers of drugs. It is appalling how social media is being used to sell drugs, not only through hidden channels, but openly on platforms such as Instagram, she says.
CHARACTERISTIC: “Pink cocaine”, which is also called rosada, tusi, nexus and eros, does not contain cocaine, but is a mixture of ketamine and ecstasy. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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– A bomb
The Spanish authorities have launched an information campaign to overcome the ever-increasing “pink cocaine” problem.
They warn of the serious health consequences using the drug can lead to, such as heart problems, strokes, panic attacks and blurred vision.
– The substance is so powerful that it can lead to severe high blood pressure and heart failure. It is a bomb, as it contains ecstasy and amphetamines in powder form. People don’t know what they’re getting into, a police source told the Majorca Daily Bulletin.
– A parent’s worst nightmare
Found in Norway
When Dagbladet asked earlier this year whether “pink cocaine” had been seized in Norway, the specialist unit in the Customs Department replied that in July 2023 pink powder was discovered in a letter.
– A letter consignment was seized containing 1.8 grams of pink powder which turned out to be cocaine. In addition, there was also a seizure in a letter sent in January 2022: 2.1 grams of a yellowish powder which, after analysis at the Customs Laboratory, turned out to be a mix of MDMA and ketamine, they wrote.
