No one takes ketamine for its delectable taste. The acrid mix of spit and powder that slaloms its way down the back of a user’s throat after snorting it is infamously disgusting—yet, in the ever-innovative drugs black market, one distributor may have found a solution.

Over the weekend, VICE gained access to a WhatsApp message sent by a London-based dealer offering a medley of fruit-flavored batches of the drug. The menu boasts four options: Purple Grape, Orange Peach, Green Watermelon, and Red Raspberry. There’s no taste hierarchy: each is selling for £30 per gram, a touch more expensive than typical London prices, which generally range from £20 and £25, suggesting the flavor adds a premium.

Flavored ketamine lozenges and oral solutions, used for pain relief, have long been available on

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