Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Grenada?

Legal status

Pink cocaine is a street label for a powder of variable composition, not a substance, and no entry of that name appears in the First Schedule as that schedule stands as at SRO 16 of 2011. Its status follows whatever it in fact contains. Section 3(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by Order subject to affirmative resolution, so the printed schedule is not the last word and no Order later than SRO 16 of 2011 was read here.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Searched as 'pink cocaine', 'tusi', 'tusibi' and '2C-B'. None appears anywhere in the act. The two substances the label most often points at do not behave alike here: cocaine is printed at Part I of the First Schedule, the List of Narcotic Drugs Under Control as 'COCAINE (methyl ester of benzoylecgonine)' with a one gram trafficable quantity, while 2C-B is printed nowhere and its nearest neighbour, 'BROLAMFETAMINE' against 'DOB' in Part II, is a different substance. So a powder sold under this name may be a controlled drug, a mixture of several, or none, and only an analysis settles which. The Second Schedule prints a trafficable quantity for six drugs only, cannabis and cannabis resin, cocaine, heroin, opium, morphine and THC, so no threshold figure attaches to this row and the section 6(4) presumption of supply has no quantity to bite on. Section 3(1) defines a controlled drug exhaustively as a narcotic drug listed in Part I of the First Schedule, a psychotropic substance listed in Part II, or a listed substance listed in Part III. There is no analogue limb and no definition by effect. The Fifth Schedule sets every punishment under section 37 and it does not graduate by substance at all. Possession under section 6(2), possession with intent to supply under section 6(3), production under section 5(2), supply or offering to supply under section 5(3), importation or exportation under section 4(3) and handling under section 7(1) each carry, on summary conviction, a fine of 250,000 dollars or imprisonment for 5 years or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of 500,000 dollars or imprisonment for 20 years or both. Trafficking under section 18(4) is the one figure that moves: on indictment it is imprisonment for life. Section 21 adds a separate offence of possession in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, also imprisonment for life on indictment. The act provides no death penalty. The Part of the First Schedule named in this cell is read from the act itself and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the schedule only as Parts I to IV.

If prescribed or medical

A powder sold under this label has no medicinal form and no prescription route. If it in fact contains a First Schedule substance, the section 12 and section 24 controlled drug machinery applies to that substance and not to the label, and whether regulations under those sections are in force was not established here.

Documentation

No controlled drug documentation requirement arises under this act, because the substance is outside it. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with Grenada’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.