Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in France?
Also known as: tucibi, tusibi, tuci
- Legal status
- Not applicable as a single status, and not because the French lists are silent. Pink cocaine is a street label rather than a substance: the dossier records the entry point as « mélange à composition variable », a mixture of variable composition. French control runs through the arrêtés du 22 février 1990 and classifies member by member, so a powder sold under this name is whatever it analyses as, and two samples under the one word can resolve to different entries or to none. The constituents reported under it are answered on their own rows in this table, and those rows, not this one, carry the classification. No single terminal status can honestly be stated for the label itself.
- Consequences if caught
- Capital exposure: none. France abolished the death penalty and no French drug provision carries one. Beyond that no single ceiling can be stated, because the exposure is member specific: a narcotic constituent can engage Penal Code article 222-34 and life imprisonment for directing or organising a group formed for illicit narcotics activity, while a constituent reaching only the psychotropics order has to be assessed separately. A sample containing cocaine, MDMA or ketamine would be read through that constituent's own entry, and those entries do not share one ceiling between them. Until the constituent is identified the honest statement is that the exposure is unsettled and could sit anywhere from no drug offence at all to the article 222-34 ceiling. Article L. 3421-1 of the Code de la santé publique addresses illicit use and stands apart from organised trafficking.
- If prescribed or medical
- France's country level rule is that a Schengen traveller certificate or a medicines carriage list is evidential and administrative rather than the criminal schedule. Attached to this label: there is no single schedule placement to attach, because the row's entry is recorded as « mélange à composition variable » and the placement follows the constituent. There is no schedule placement to attach to the words pink cocaine, so a certificate would have to name the constituent found. What was not established for this cell is which member is present, and without that the certificate has nothing to name.
- Documentation
- Carry the laboratory analysis or any documentation naming the actual constituents of the sample, because the street name evidences nothing that a French list can be checked against. Provenance: the row's own entry is « mélange à composition variable », recorded against the consolidated narcotics and psychotropics orders of 22 February 1990 and read on Légifrance at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000000533085 on 18 September 2026. The dossier classes this label among the five it marks not applicable for a single member independent answer, and that classification, not a failed search, is why this cell defers.
- France, Arrêtés du 22 février 1990, narcotics and psychotropics lists, with pink cocaine recorded as « mélange à composition variable » and marked not applicable for a single member independent answer
- read at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000000533085, Légifrance, the official publisher, with the psychotropics order at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/search/all?query=arr%C3%AAt%C3%A9+22+f%C3%A9vrier+1990+psychotropes and the Code de la santé publique at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGITEXT000006072665
- Penal Code article 222-34 at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000006417715 carries a member specific ceiling on this row
- read as at 18 September 2026.
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Same substance, other countries
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