Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Italy?
- Legal status
- Pink cocaine (tusi) is not scheduled as such; it is a variable mixture (typically ketamine + MDMA) prosecuted through its constituents — under Presidential Decree DPR 309/1990 ketamine is a scheduled narcotic-medicine (Tabella dei medicinali, Sezione A) and MDMA is a controlled narcotic, and the Testo Unico reaches any preparation containing a scheduled substance. Because the blend varies batch to batch, exposure follows the most-severely-controlled detected component.
- Consequences if caught
- Trafficking is prosecuted under Art 73 of DPR 309/1990 (multi-year imprisonment); possession for personal use is handled as an administrative sanction under Art 75.
- If prescribed or medical
- No lawful supply of the mixture; ketamine is an authorised anaesthetic medicine (Tabella medicinali Sezione A), while MDMA has no marketed medical use.
- Documentation
- Sold as an unregulated party powder; because the makeup varies batch to batch, purchasers cannot know its constituents, leaving legal exposure under DPR 309/1990 unknowable at purchase.
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