Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Cuba?
- Legal status
- Pink cocaine (tusi) is not scheduled as such; it is a variable mixture (typically ketamine + MDMA) prosecuted through its constituents — Cuba lists 'Ketamina' on MINSAP Resolution 25/2022 (national list of substances with drug-like effects subject to control) and treats MDMA as a controlled substance, with criminal liability under the Penal Code (Law No. 151/2022). Because the blend varies batch to batch, exposure follows the most-severely-controlled detected component.
- Consequences if caught
- Trafficking and related offences are prosecuted under the Penal Code (Law No. 151/2022, e.g. the aggravated drug provisions of Art 235), with imprisonment set by whichever constituent is detected.
- If prescribed or medical
- No lawful supply of the mixture; ketamine is a nationally controlled medicine used as an anaesthetic, 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 its constituents, so legal exposure under the Cuban Penal Code is unknowable at purchase.
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