In the legal marketplace there’s flavored water and flavored vodka. Now there’s a new product: flavored cocaine.
Narcotics agents in Yolo County say they have arrested six people after confiscating 3 pounds of strawberry- and coconut-flavored cocaine.
Adding a flavor to the addictive stimulant is seen by Yolo County Narcotic Enforcement Team Commander Roy Giorgi as “just another marketing tool.”
When the flavored cocaine is inhaled through the nostrils, users say the flavor can be tasted and smelled.
“They said regular cocaine gives a medicine taste in the back of the throat when snorted,” Giorgi said. “With the flavored, you get a strawberry taste.”
Flavored cocaine costs 40 percent more than regular cocaine.
Giorgi said some Ecstasy tablets are flavored, and flavored methamphetamine is called “Strawberry Quick.” Cocaine also comes in vanilla, banana and chocolate.
Giorgi said only a handful of seizures of flavored cocaine have been reported nationally, but that he expects more to come.
With the help of an undercover agent, drug buys included a quarter-pound of crystal methamphetamine for $3,200, a 2-ounce strawberry-flavored cocaine purchase for $1,800 and 6 ounces of strawberry and 3 ounces of coconut cocaine for $6,500, authorities said.