A recreational substance termed “pink cocaine” is gaining popularity and causing misunderstanding because it does not normally include cocaine.

The pink powder, which is actually a mix of other narcotics tinted pink, has been discovered in drug seizures, forcing law authorities to issue warnings.

Pink cocaine is also known as “tusi,” however both nicknames are based on marketing rather than fact. According to experts, it rarely contains cocaine and is more likely to contain ketamine, which has quite distinct effects.

What Is The Recreational Drug ‘Pink Cocaine’?

Why is it pink?
Pink cocaine gets its pink tint from food coloring or dye, according to Joseph Palamar, a drug trends researcher at NYU Langone Health in New York.

“Sometimes it has cocaine in the mix, but it’s typically more of a ketamine concoction,” says Palamar. Studies have discovered batches containing methamphetamine, MDMA, bath salts, caffeine, and opiates.

“It’s a concoction that anyone can make if they have a couple of drugs and a pink dye,” Palamar told reporters.

According to research released last year by Palamar, the term “tusi” may have been coined to emulate 2C-B, a recreational drug popular on the rave scene in the 1990s and noted for its euphoric effects. The drug analyses that Palamar evaluated revealed that tusi did not often include 2C-B.

According to him, young people nowadays may be unaware of the history of the name tusi and may be confused by the name pink cocaine.

“It’s just some beautiful powder that their pals are using. “They probably have no idea what it is supposed to be,” he explained.

Why is pink cocaine dangerous?
The threat stems from the unknown contents. Users may have undesirable side effects or take more than their previous experience indicates they can handle. Ketamine is a potent anesthetic that has been licensed for surgical usage, but it has also been used recreationally and to treat depression, anxiety, and pain in recent years. It has the potential to produce hallucinations as well as interfere with breathing and cardiac function.

What Is The Recreational Drug ‘Pink Cocaine’?

“Ketamine is not a fun drug to most people,” Palamar stated. “It kind of puts you in your own little world and things tend to feel very alien when you’re on it, especially in large doses.”

Someone who is drunk at a party and believes cocaine may counteract the effects of alcohol will be unpleasantly startled with pink cocaine, which is primarily ketamine, he added.

“If you’ve been drinking, it’s going to make you sick to your stomach and the dissociative effects are not going to be very pleasant,” he told me.

Where does pink cocaine come from?
In May, the United States Coast Guard reported seizing pink cocaine and other drugs off the shores of Mexico, Central and South America.

“That was the first time that I heard of large batches being imported into the U.S. as tusi,” Palamar told me. It might just as easily be created by drug dealers in the United States who mix their own, he claimed.

SOURCE | AP

MEXICO CITY — Hurricane Kristy grew into a Category 3 storm in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday and is predicted to stay away from land as it becomes stronger, forecasters said.

The storm was about 650 miles (1,045 kilometers) southwest of the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, moving west at 20 mph (31 kph). The National Hurricane Center in Miami reported maximum sustained winds of 125 mph (205 kph).

Hurricane Kristy Strengthens Into A Category 3 Storm In The Pacific Ocean

Kristy’s waves will hit areas of the Baja California peninsula’s west coast late this week, causing potentially fatal surf and rip current conditions, according to the center.

Kristy formed as a tropical storm off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast on Monday before intensifying into a hurricane on Tuesday. Forecasters predicted steady to rapid strengthening on Wednesday and Thursday, followed by moderate weakening beginning Friday.

Hurricane Kristy Strengthens Into A Category 3 Storm In The Pacific Ocean

The storm was predicted to continue moving across open water. No coastal watches or warnings were in effect.

“This one is moving due westward at a quick forward speed well out to sea, so there are no concerns about land,” said Brad Reinhart, a senior hurricane specialist at the center.

Oscar, which made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in Cuba on Sunday, dissolved into tropical remnants in the Atlantic Ocean Tuesday. The island is recovering from floods and power shortages.

SOURCE | AP

(VOR News) – On Monday, five men who were wrongfully incarcerated as minors filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump in the Central Park Five Jogger rape case.

They allege that the Republican presidential candidate defamed them by falsely asserting their involvement in the rape and a guilty plea.

The lawsuit, which was submitted to a federal court in Philadelphia, references numerous statements that Donald Trump made about the individuals during his debate with Democratic candidate Kamala Harris on September 10.

Harris criticized Donald Trump for airing a 1989 ad supporting juvenile executions.

Defendant Donald Trump made a false claim during the debate that the Plaintiffs had committed homicide and had confessed to the crime. The civil complaint alleges that “These statements are categorically false.”

The plaintiffs were never convicted of any offenses and were subsequently exonerated of all accusations. Additionally, the complaint asserted that the individuals who were assaulted in Central Park were able to survive.

Trump’s behavior toward the men at the debate “constituted a continuing tort” according to the lawsuit, as it “was part of a persistent pattern of extreme and outrageous behavior spanning several years.” Together referred to as “the Exonerated Five,” the litigants in the action are Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron Brown, and Korey Wise. Salaam is a council member from New York City.

Their lawsuit seeks damages exceeding $75,000, with the aggregate of compensatory and punitive damages to be determined during the trial. The accusations encompass intentional infliction of emotional distress, false light, and defamation.

In a statement released by the Donald Trump campaign, spokesman Steven Cheung asserted that “this lawsuit is merely another frivolous instance of election interference, initiated by desperate leftist activists to divert the American public’s attention from Kamala Harris’ perilously liberal agenda and unsuccessful campaign.”

Cheung thinks American President Donald Trump would triumph historically on November 5.

He also argued that Kamala Harris’ associates’ futile legal maneuvers to interfere in the election are ineffective.

The lawsuit asserts that the individuals were convicted as adolescents for a series of assaults that took place in Central Park, New York City, in April 1989. The individuals, who were 14 to 16, were convicted and sentenced to years of incarceration.

The lawsuit alleges that Trump financed a full-page advertisement in New York newspapers that referenced the assaults in Central Park without explicitly naming the suspects.

The advertisement urged the City of New York to “… [send a message unequivocally to those who would kill our citizens and instill fear in New York—REINSTATE THE DEATH PENALTY AND RESTORE OUR POLICE,” shortly after a sexual assault on a jogger in the park for which the teenagers were charged.

The allegation of sexual assault on the jogger was dismissed by recent DNA evidence in 2002, which cleared all five men. One year later, the men sought legal action against New York City, alleging a conspiracy motivated by racial animus, malevolent prosecution, and wrongful arrest. The city agreed to a settlement of $41 million for the men more than a decade after the lawsuit was filed.

In an editorial published that year, Donald Trump referred to the agreement as a “disgrace.”

Harris pointed out during the September presidential debate, “Let us recall that this is the same individual [Trump] who published a full-page advertisement in The New York Times advocating for the execution of five innocent young Black and Latino boys, known as the Central Park Five.”

Harris, as per the lawsuit, “took out a full-page ad calling for their execution.”

Donald Trump responded to Harris by stating, “They confessed, they pleaded guilty; they acknowledged it.” I added, “If they acknowledged culpability, they ultimately caused a fatality and severely harmed another individual.” The president stated, “If they plead guilty, then they assert their innocence.”

Trump was previously found legally culpable for defaming Carroll in two distinct proceedings following E. Jean Carroll’s public allegation that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store dressing room during the mid-1990s.

Jurors awarded Carroll $88.3 million in damages during his trials in those cases, which included compensation for the writer’s sexual abuse. Donald Trump is contesting the verdicts in the cases that were filed in federal court in Manhattan.

SOURCE: CNBC

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