New York club kids who use the party drug Molly because they think it’s pure ecstasy✤ are often being peddled deadly “bath salts” by ruthless dealers, the DEA told The Post.
The dangerous narcotic — which causes a violent, meth-like high — h🍷as killed at least one reveler this year and is being eyed in the deaths of two partiers at the Electric Zoo festival on Randall’s Islan🍌d two weeks ago.
“Kids think ‘Molly’ is a pure, safe ecstasy, but it’s not,” said DEA Speඣcial Agent Erin Mulvey. “It’s not pure, it’s not safe and it’s not even ec💟stasy.”
Known to drug regulators as methylone — and exp♉orted in bulk from China — the salts caused theꩲ agonizing death of Matthew Rybarczyk, 20, of Staten Island, after a June 15 rave on Governors Island.
“There were bags and bags pumping things into him, and the blood was coming out 🔜of his mouth, his nose,” Peggy Rybarczyk remembered yesterday of watching her grandson die slowly in his hospital bed.
The two young p♐eople who died at the Electric Zoo music fest — recent Syracuse University grad Jeffrey Russ, 23, and University of New Hampshire student Olivia Rotondo, 20 — may have also ingested the sa꧑lts, though toxicology results are pending, sources told The Post.
Two others who were stricken at the festival admiꦗtted to drug use — also believed to be a substance resembling bath salts, sources told The Post.
Bath salts, which can be swallowed, snorted, injected or dissolved in water, has a similarly euphoric effect as ecstasy — but can also cause psychotic symptoms like agitation, paranoia and hallucinations. The drug is federally banned from sale in stores but is widely available on t🧔he Internet.
It has yet to be d꧒eclared a controlled substance under state law, which has greatly hampered prosecution efforts.
“We’re see꧅ing a proliferation of it,” citywide Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan told The Post. “We urgently need a law that would allow us to prosecute the sale of💝 this deadly substance.”
A bill criminalizing the drug h💦as sat since June 19 in the st﷽ate Senate majority office, awaiting forwarding to the desk of Gov. Cuomo, who has said he’ll sign it.
“I think it’s a✤bsolutely 𒐪horrible,” Rybarczyk said. “These drugs are killing our children.”
Since the ꧙Electric Zoo overdoses, the NYPD has ma⭕de club drugs a priority.
In a recent Harlem bust, ℱcops seized 40 ꦑgrams of ecstasy and four firearms — including a submachine gun.