Alas, its popularity meant that it continues to be circulated as an illegal drug, with one man quickly dominating the trade - General Vega of Nod, who is also a Colombian druglord. Vega himself frequently used the drug, eventually killing himself via overdose when Kane ordered a nuclear strike on his island due to his failure to stop Michael McNeil. The drug was usually applied to the naked eye, where it can rapidly diffuse into the blood stream.