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A new type of illicit synthetic street drug known as “Pink Cocaine” and “Pink Panther” was found in a San Jose business where investigators suspect it was being manufactured. Luis Carrillo-Moyeda, 32, of San Jose, was arrested last month on drug charges after San Jose Police Department officers served search warrants at his home and business on Blossom Hill Road. SJPD wrote, “The illegal narcotics being manufactured and sold by suspect Carrillo-Moyeda, commonly known as ‘Tusi,’ ‘Pink Cocaine,’ ‘Pantera Rosa,’ or ‘Pink Panther,’ is a new synthetic drug made from a mixture of ketamine, MDMA, methamphetamine, cocaine, and opioids.” Detectives...

National Police officers in the Alicante municipality of Elche (Spain) have arrested a man and a woman aged 29 and 30 respectively, for crimes related to drug trafficking and the illegal possession of weapons, with both detaines allegedly involved in the distribution of, among other substances, a new designer drug called ‘Tusi’ or ‘pink cocaine’, which is potentially more dangerous due to the high level of addiction it generates, and whose total amount seized had a value of around €30,000 on the black market. After months of investigation, and multiple discreet surveillance operations carried out on the suspects, the police...

In new documentary, B.C. drug producer known as Beeker says fentanyl is just the beginningA B.C. drug producer known as Beeker says underground chemists are steps ahead of the police when it comes to the movement of illicit drugs on the streets. Beeker is the subject of a new documentary, Unstoppable: The Fentanyl Epidemic, in which he opens up about the big business behind the drug. He says police are far behind when it comes to tracking drugs throughout the province, and he says many local chemists are synthesizing drugs with materials ordered from China. "I'm smarter than they are...

One of the chemists who designed synthetic cannabis for research purposes, John W. Huffman, PhD once said that he couldn’t imagine why anyone would try it recreationally. Because of its deadly toxicity, he said that those who tried it must be “idiots.” Taxpayer money created synthetic cannabis through this research. Synthetic pot also goes by Spice, K-2, fake weed, Yucatan Fire, Bliss, Blaze, Skunk, Moon Rocks, etc. Synthetic cannabis, unlike pot, however, can cause a huge variety of symptoms, which can be severe: Agitation, vomiting, hallucination, paranoia, tremor, seizure, tachycardia, hypokalemia, chest pain, cardiac problems, stroke, kidney damage, acute psychosis,...

"The raids, part of an ongoing operation dubbed Project Synergy, are being carried out by DEA, targeting designer synthetic drugs....Ali Reza Samanifar, 56, was arrested at his home, according to Shelby County sheriff's officials. He is charged with three counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance....Local law enforcement officials, assisted by DEA agents, are going to convenience stores and head shops across the country where the drugs are sold......Authorities believe some of the owners of these stores send profits from the sale of these drugs back to their homes in Yemen, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, as well as other...