Mystery pink cocaine allegedly enjoyed by Diddy sees bump across NYCs drug scene

The Big Apple’s newest drug bump isn’t so pretty in pink.A pink “mystery powder” reportedly beloved by disgraced mogul Diddy and linked to a dangerous Venezuelan gang is blowing through New York City’s illicit drug scene, law enforcement sources and experts tell The Post.The synthetic drug concoction known as “tusi” or “pink cocaine” has popped up in a growing number of recent narcotics busts, including of an Upper East Side woman who allegedly openly sold it on a messaging app, sources said.“It is cheaper than coke,” said Ray Donovan, former chief of operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration.“It is a cheap club drug.”Tusi originally sprang up in Latin America within the last decade — as a phonetic play on “2C,” a group of psychedelic drugs popular in the nightlife set — said Joseph Palamar, an associate professor of population health at NYU Langone who recently published a study on the pink powder. But the drug isn’t primarily 2C — or even cocaine, despite its monikers, he said.Instead, it’s always mostly ketamine, in addition to swirling cocktail of other narcotics such as MDMA, methamphetamine, opioids and small amounts of cocaine, depending on whoever is brewing the batch, Palamar said.The only ingredient that apparently won’t get users high is what gives the drug its distinctive pink color: food coloring.“It’s the new mystery powder to hit nightclubs,” Palamar said.“I think everybody’s concoction is going to be different from the next person’s.”The candy-colored drug’s Latin American link isn’t just in its origin, but also in its association with the notorious Tren de Aragua gang from Venezuela that accused NYPD cop shooter Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, 19, said is smuggling guns into migrant shelters, according to authorities.Jason Savino, the NYPD’s assistant chief of detectives, told Fox 5 last week that the gang has expanded into trafficking tusi.

Police sources told The Post that Tren...