Who’s Afraid of Tuci?
The gossip about the legal problems surrounding Sean Combs, the recording artist and entrepreneur who has variously been known by the stage names Puff Daddy and Diddy, just keeps getting more complicated. This spring, an associate of Combs, Brendan Paul, was arrested at an airport in Miami and accused of transporting drugs at Combs’s request. During the investigation, people who knew Combs and Paul said that Paul would pack drugs in his carry-on luggage and take them to events where Combs was scheduled to perform. The list of drugs mentioned in court documents and reported by Rolling Stone magazine is astounding. It includes the usual suspects, such as cannabis, cocaine, and MDMA, plus some drugs with more of a niche audience, such as psychedelic mushrooms, ketamine, and GHB, and one that readers are likely hearing about for the first time, namely tuci. The drug has only recently appeared in the U.S. drug supply, and it is a heady concoction of contradictions. If you are being accused of illegal possession of tuci, contact a Florida drug offenses attorney.
Tuci May or May Not Contain Series 2C Drugs, but It Is Probably Pink
The name “tuci” is just a phonetic spelling of “2C,” a category of psychedelic drugs first synthesized by Alexander Shulgin in the 1970s; the name is a reference to the chemical structure of the drugs’ molecules. Tuci has been a popular club drug in Europe and Latin America for some time and has only recently become prevalent in the United States; it is often sold as a pink powder, giving rise to the nickname “pink cocaine.” The pink color comes from red food coloring or strawberry-flavored powdered drink mixes.
If you encounter pink cocaine or tuci in Florida, it probably will not contain tuci, and it may or may not contain cocaine; just as white powder purchased at a nightclub or on a street corner could be anything, pink powder purchased at a nightclub or on a street corner could be anything. Tuci powders confiscated by police usually contain ketamine, and some have also tested positive for cocaine, methamphetamine, opioids, and drugs so new that the Controlled Substances Act does not specifically mention them by name. Because fentanyl is so inexpensive, it is frequently mixed with drug powders sold on the street, so it is virtually impossible to know whether the expensive pink powder you are buying is plain Pink Swimmingo Kool-Aid mix at club drug prices or whether you are getting a lethal dose of fentanyl. Tuci is a Schedule I controlled substance, which means that it is as illegal as heroin and MDMA; the law considers it to have a high potential for abuse and does not acknowledge any medical indications for it.
Contact FL Drug Defense Group About Drug Cases
A Central Florida criminal defense lawyer can help you if you are being accused of drug crimes because of what you thought was pink lemonade mix. Contact FL Drug Defense Group in Orlando, Florida to discuss your case.
Sources:
rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sean-combs-drug-mule-arrested-miami-airport-1234994123/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37162319/
webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/what-is-pink-cocaine
