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Legality · Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Belize?

Confirmed against a primary sourceVerified September 21, 2026
Legal status
Pink cocaine is a street label and not a substance, so Belize's schedules cannot carry an entry for it and none does. Samples sold under the label are most often a mixture, commonly containing ketamine, MDMA, caffeine or a 2C phenethylamine, and sometimes containing no cocaine at all. Each of those has its own row on this site and its own answer in Belize, and they do not agree with each other: Cocaine is printed in Schedule II paragraph 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, while ketamine returns nothing anywhere in the volume. What a person is carrying is therefore settled by analysis and not by the name on the bag. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught
Nothing in this row can be given a penalty, because the label does not identify a substance and the schedule that decides class, the Act's Second Schedule, was not in the material read. The practical exposure follows whichever controlled drug the sample turns out to contain, and section 44 of the 1990 Act text provides for evidence by certificate of analyst, which is how the question is settled in a Belize court. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
If prescribed or medical
No prescription route is stated for this row, because a prescribing rule in these Regulations attaches to a schedule and this substance is in none of them. Regulation 4 is the rule a traveller would want, and it operates only on Schedules IV and V: it lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for both, and the section 7(1) possession prohibition for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product and for a Schedule V preparation outright. Whether this substance is reached by the Act's own Second Schedule, and so is a controlled drug taking none of those exemptions, was not settled here.
Documentation
Nothing on this row identifies a single substance, so there is nothing to carry against it. If a prescribed medicine is involved, carry it in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. The Chapter 103 subsidiary volume was searched in full for this row on 22 September 2026 and the label itself appears nowhere in it.
Primary sources
  • Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103, the Subsidiary Laws volume, Revised Edition 2020, showing the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020, searched in full across the Misuse of Drugs Regulations and their Schedules I to V, the Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations and the Industrial Hemp Regulations
  • agm.gov.bz
  • the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf
  • that Act text runs from section 1 to partway through section 28 and carries none of its First, Second or Third Schedules, so the list that decides control was not read
  • read as at 22 September 2026

Court records

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