Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Austria?
- Legal status
- Not applicable as a single status, and not because the Austrian instruments are silent. Pink cocaine is a street label rather than a substance: the source resolves it by constituents, recording that MDMA, 2C-B or cocaine makes the corresponding mixture a controlled preparation, that ketamine invokes the medicine and NPS branch instead, and that caffeine alone invokes food and product rules, with no fixed recipe assumed and no particular sample, concentration or undisclosed ingredient invented. Austrian narcotics control is delegated and closed, working entry by entry through the Suchtgiftverordnung annexes, so a powder sold under this name is whatever it analyses as, and the same name can produce different results from one sample to the next. The constituents reported under it are answered separately in this table, at the MDMA, 2C-B, cocaine, ketamine and caffeine rows, and those rows and not this one carry the schedule placements. No single terminal status can honestly be stated for the label itself.
- Consequences if caught
- Capital exposure: none. The custodial ceiling cannot be stated for the label at all, because it depends entirely on what the powder contains. A mixture holding MDMA or 2C-B is an Annex V.1 preparation and a mixture holding cocaine is an Annex I.1.b preparation, and either can in principle reach life imprisonment under SMG §28a(5), which provides ten to twenty years or life for leading a larger connection of people in §28a(1) conduct. A ketamine only psychoactive mixture leaves the narcotics instrument altogether and tops out at ten years under NPSG §4(2). A caffeine only powder carries no drug ceiling at all. SMG §28b compounds the problem in the other direction, because the threshold is taken on the pure active substance and a multi constituent powder has to be resolved into its parts before any tier can be applied. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Austria entry rather than re-derived from the Suchtmittelgesetz in this pass, the published penalties are these. Austrian practice is depenalised and not legalised, and the published entry says so in those terms. There is no legal minimum quantity, and possession of any amount for personal use is punishable under section 27, up to six months in prison or a fine. Under Therapie statt Strafe at section 35, small quantity personal use is typically provisionally suspended from prosecution on one to two years of probation where the person accepts counselling or treatment. Consumption itself is not criminalised, but the possession that precedes it is. Above the Grenzmenge, the threshold quantity, the offence becomes dealing or trafficking under sections 28 and 28a, up to one to three years, escalating to ten to fifteen years for commercial or organised cases. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine and none of them is a quantity threshold. Whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established, so they are recorded as Austria's published drug penalties and not as this row's exposure.
- If prescribed or medical
- Austria's traveller rule is SMG §5(1), and it cannot be applied to a label. The Act confines a Suchtmittel to medical, dental, veterinary and scientific purposes, which presupposes knowing which Suchtmittel is in question, and pink cocaine names no substance. Read the constituent rows instead: MDMA, 2C-B and cocaine are narcotics with no SMG §30(3) route, ketamine is a prescription medicine dispensed without repeat and kept out of the NPS regime by NPSG §2, and caffeine is not a Suchtmittel at all. No medical route exists for a mixture sold under this name in any case, because no such product is authorised.
- Documentation
- Carry nothing under this heading, because there is nothing to document: the label is not a substance and no Austrian instrument designates it. If the question is really about a constituent, use that constituent's row, and note that the same street name has produced samples with MDMA, 2C-B, cocaine, ketamine and caffeine in them. The constituent entries and the preparation clauses were read on 18 September 2026 at the narcotics consolidation whose last list amendment is BGBl II 180/2026, with the ketamine prescription entry read the same day.
- Austria, Annex V.1 for MDMA and 2C-B, Annex I.1.b for cocaine, the clauses covering all preparations of the narcotics in those annexes, and the prescription regulation ketamine entry marked NR
- the narcotics instrument read at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011053, the prescription regulation at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10010358 and the food information regulation at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32011R1169
- the offences are Suchtmittelgesetz §§27 to 28a with the life ceiling at §28a(5) and the NPS offence is NPSG §4, read at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011040 and https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=20007605
- RIS is the official publisher
- its open data notice at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/UI/Ogd.aspx places the reused material under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and requires attribution, and its imprint at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/UI/Impressum.aspx identifies the signed authentic gazette instruments as the binding text and disclaims accuracy, currency and completeness for the consolidated versions
- read as at 18 September 2026.
- the section 27, 35, 28 and 28a penalties stated above are carried forward from this site's published Austria entry, which cites the Suchtmittelgesetz and the Suchtgift-Grenzmengenverordnung. They were not re-derived from either instrument in this pass, and that entry's own framing, depenalised and not legalised and no legal minimum quantity, is carried with them
Court records
We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.
Other substances confirmed in Austria
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