Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Falkland Islands (UK)?
- Legal status
- Pink cocaine is a street label, not one substance: the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987, as at the consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, does not name it, and a sample is controlled or not according to what it actually contains.
- Consequences if caught
- Searches for tusi and pink in the Ordinance text returned 0 matches, so the answer turns on the contents. If a sample contains ketamine, that ingredient is not a controlled drug, because ketamine is not named in the Schedule. If it contains MDMA or 2C-B, each is Class A through the ring-substitution limb in Part 1, paragraph 1(c), and cocaine is named in Part 1. Part 1, paragraph 5 makes «Any preparation or other product containing» a Class A drug itself Class A, so a powder containing any of those three carries the Class A penalties: up to 14 years' imprisonment and a level 10 fine (£125,000) for supply or import, and 7 years and a level 8 fine (£25,000) for possession, under sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Ordinance and Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014. This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
- If prescribed or medical
- Pink cocaine is not a medicine and has no prescription route. MDMA and 2C-B fall within the phenethylamine limb that the Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates under section 7(4), which switches off the power to let doctors prescribe them, so a powder containing either cannot be held on a prescription.
- Documentation
- The controlling law for pink cocaine in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.
- Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026
- Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022
- legislation.gov.fk
- Medicines Ordinance 2006, section 1(2), printed on legislation.gov.fk as uncommenced
- legislation.gov.fk
- Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994
- legislation.gov.fk
- Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8
- legislation.gov.fk
- Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I
- legislation.gov.fk
- Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026
- falklands.gov.fk
Court records
We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.
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