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Harm Reduction Pink Cocaine… Seriously? [Be Careful Out There]

6dream

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In recent weeks I have seen a flood of social media content regarding the death of a singer I had never heard of (Liam Payne), almost invariably with reference to a concoction generically called pink cocaine.

For me, the name conjures the image of a lightweight girly version of coke. Sadly, it’s nothing of the sort. Let’s take a quick look at what seems to be an in-vogue craze.

Wikipedia will tell you that pink cocaine (aka tussi, tuci, tucibi) "contains a mixture of different psychoactive substances, and is most commonly found in pink-dyed powder form".

That mixture is neither defined nor consistent. Although it commonly contains drugs like ketamine, MDMA, meth, and cocaine, there is no agreed or universal recipe. Different vendors will sell pink cocaine which contains radically different drugs.

Straight from the bat you can see a serious safety issue. Without deep testing of the actual contents of your supply, you are in the dark, and are taking a significant risk. Even ignoring your exposure to an unknown combination of classic drugs, which in itself could be severely problematic, it could easily contain fentanyl, or perhaps some relatively unknown research chemical with a similarly dire safety profile.

Here's another issue: even if you do know the actual contents, you are unlikely to know the ratios. In other words, you don't know the actual doses of each constituent drug. This too is a serious accident waiting to happen.

So… right here, without going any further …. you don’t know what drugs you are taking and you don’t know the doses you are taking them in. This is like spinning a roulette wheel with some of the numbers equating to tragedy.

If anyone reading this is foolhardy and reckless enough with their lives to still proceed, here are some tips:
  • Establish the real contents. Test your supply!
  • Try to establish the ratios and err on the side of caution re dose.
  • Research the dose thresholds and harm reduction info for each constituent drug, perhaps using a resource like the Drug Users Bible or Erowid.
  • Adopt a more formal harm reduction process. For example, by following ‘The 10 Commandments of Safer Drug Use”. https://drugusersbible.org/content/..._10_commandments_of_safer_drug_use/index.html
  • Take a VERY close look at the TripSit combination chart. Heed the contents (see the 10 Commandments).
A better tip?

Don't take it. If you are going to take a drug, identify the specific outcome you actually want and select the specific drug to deliver it rather than taking an unknown combo.

VENDORS: Please really think twice if you sell this stuff, or at the very least, honestly specify the actual contents and ratios. People are clearly getting into serious trouble, and worse, with it.
 
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I think, like many similar cases, the media has made a bigger deal about this "pink cocaine" than it truly is. Here are some analytical results of samples of "tuci":


Of course, i would never encourage anyone to take a street drug that is purposely sold as a mixture (who's components are randomly determined by the seller), but the media seems to have blown this out of proportion (because alarmist news reporting generates advertising revenue).
 
I just had some as a vendor gave me a free bag.
Mostly felt like Ketamine with some light stim effects, based on my experiences with substances I would think it is very likely that it was a mix of Ketamine and MDMA.
I don't think there was a lot of caffeine but it's possible/likely that there was some.

I snorted 160mg in total, first 60mg and then 100mg one hour later, very unremarkable effects, I couldn't see how anyone would take this while at a party, club or any other social setting.

I would normally take much bigger lines of Ketamine (normally around 250mg) and MDMA (normally about 200mg) and I would have no problems taking these together as well but I refrained from using more as I had no idea what else could be in that mix.
 
Tucci is usually a mix of ket and MDMA with a bit of pink. That how the Colombians do it anyway. As usual the focus is on the drugs instead of the circumstances.

That said pink cocaine/tucci is a harm reduction nightmare so if this takes it out of vogue I'm all for it.
 
That said pink cocaine/tucci is a harm reduction nightmare so if this takes it out of vogue I'm all for it.
I can't understand why people would just take a mixed bag of whatever. In the 70's -80''s pink cocaine was top notch Peruvian. The best Columbia has to offer these days is stuff called tucci? Makes no sense people would just snort random pink crap.

Yeah, this tucci nonsense irritates me. So do the gummies with rc chems. Like 4-aco-met 18 mgs in a gummy could be nice if presented as is. I have no problem if it were presented as exactly what it is. But there are lies, and that should be unacceptable.
 
Of course, i would never encourage anyone to take a street drug that is purposely sold as a mixture (who's components are randomly determined by the seller),
purposefully or not that’s pretty much all drugs now at street level unfortunately.

Tucibi seems mild compared to the current concoction being sold as “fetty” this xylazine shit really breaks my heart and instills it with rage
 
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