Hong Kong ketamine seizures surge twentyfold after new variety sent from Europe

A new form of European ketamine is driving a resurgence in the drug’s popularity among Hong Kong users, with customs officers seizing 20 times as much of it in 2019 as they did a year earlier, a top investigator has said.The increase – the largest for any kind of drug – took the total haul to 350kg, an amount worth HK$200 million on the local market.The hallucinogen, popular in the city more than a decade ago, is back and in better quality, Eddie Lee Man-lok, head of the airport investigation…

from South China Morning Post https://bit.ly/2QCvptk