DENVER (KDVR) A major DEA operation at an underground nightclub led to more than 100 detained, with weapons and drugs uncovered in Colorado Springs.

“As you may suspect, when the cops showed up at the door, most of the drugs hit the floor. We did find cocaine looks like some pink cocaine,” DEA Rocky Mountain Field Division Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen told affiliate KDVR in Colorado Springs at a press conference.

The DEA said that pink cocaine is new to Colorado. KDVR spoke to experts about it and the risk this drug brings to the state. 

“It’s kind of a counterfeit version of what a drug that was first created in the ‘seventies ’70s and it’s a whole family of drugs called 2C compounds,” Robert Valuck, the director of the Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention at CU Anschutz, said. “But ironically, pink cocaine almost never has cocaine in it. It’s just a powder. It has ketamine, MDMA, methamphetamine and caffeine are the four most common things that are in it.”

Valuck tells KDVR the medical community is discussing the drug at national summits, considering it an “emerging threat.”

“I call it a Russian roulette powder, you really don’t know what you’re getting,” Valuck said. “It could have psilocybin in it or fentanyl in it. It can kill you. It could just be worthless and be a total waste of your time, money and effort because all it is is lactose. And sometimes people put caffeine powder in it because it’s weak and cheap and it makes people think they bought something special.”

In February, the DEA told KDVR that Tusi is connected with the gang Tren De Aragua.

“No one knows what’s in it except the person who made it and that could be with a cartel or it could be somebody making it in their basement, who knows where it came from. It’s very dangerous because you don’t know what it is,” Valuck said. 

“A lot of the ways people are getting these drugs happen on social media. It happens with these encrypted chats,” said Steve Carlton, CEO and chief clinical officer of Porch Light Health. “The transactions are happening over Venmo and these other means of transferring money. You don’t even have to meet your drug dealer anymore to procure drugs. And with that in mind, you just you really you can’t be too you can’t feel too safe that you are buying what you think you’re buying.”

Carlton recommends that users implement a drug test kit to figure out substances before using them.