In October 2022, a new Novel Psychoactive Substance (NPS) that is being sold as Ketamine across Canberra and NSW. This substance, 2′-Fluoro-2-Oxo-PCE, has not been studied at all, literally anywhere! Extreme caution is advised for Ketamine users.
A substance called 2’-fluoro-2-oxo-phenylcyclohexylethylamine: something like ketamine, but with a few key differences.
The substance, which is currently being referred to as CanKet, had also been spotted by Chinese and Taiwanese law enforcement.
Around the same time the CanKet tests were taking place, a team of researchers in China published a research paper highlighting the “identification of three novel new psychoactive substances”—one of which was CanKet, or 2F-NENDCK, as the Chinese scientists referred to it. The authors of that report suggested that the new ketamine-like substance was probably created to get around prohibitive legislation, noting that it was structurally similar to another designer drug, NENK, which is also believed to have similar properties to ketamine and is listed in China’s illicit drugs catalogue.
December 2022 NFLIS Snapshot Report – found specimens in the South and Midwest.