Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in China?
Also known as: tucibi, tusibi, tuci
- Legal status
- Pink cocaine (tusi) is not scheduled as such; it is a variable mixture (typically ketamine + MDMA) prosecuted through its constituents, China controls ketamine (氯胺酮) as a Category I psychotropic substance and MDMA as a controlled narcotic, and the Criminal Law reaches any mixture containing a controlled drug. Because the blend varies batch to batch, exposure follows the most-severely-controlled component; ketamine is itself capital-eligible at high quantity (≥500 g under the 2016 SPC Drug Crimes Interpretation), so tusi carries capital exposure through either constituent.
- Consequences if caught
- Trafficking is sentenced under Criminal Law art. 347 with quantity-graded penalties up to death; ketamine at or above roughly 500 g is death-eligible, and an MDMA-containing sample likewise engages capital thresholds.
- If prescribed or medical
- No lawful supply of the mixture; ketamine is a Category I psychotropic medicine used as an anaesthetic under strict control, while MDMA has no accepted medical use.
- Documentation
- Sold as a party powder of unknown makeup; because the blend varies batch to batch, buyers cannot know the quantity or identity of the death-eligible constituent present, so capital-level legal exposure is unknowable at purchase.
- gov.cn
- The power that moves this list is the catalogue and joint announcement route under the 2007 Narcotics Control Law, by which the State adds named substances, and this project's China substance dossier checked on 18 September 2026 records the class control of synthetic cannabinoid substances in force from 1 July 2021 while naming no edition of the narcotic and psychotropic catalogues themselves. No catalogue version was recorded when this cell was authored on 14 July 2026, and that does not rule out a later amendment made or commenced since.
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Court records
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Same substance, other countries
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