Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Italy?
Also known as: tucibi, tusibi, tuci
- Legal status
- Not applicable as a single status, and not because the tables are silent. Pink cocaine names a powder of no fixed composition, which the dossier records as «miscela senza composizione fissa». Article 14 of DPR 309/1990 builds the tables from named substances rather than from street names, so the legal result follows the constituents actually identified in the sample. Two powders sold under this name can resolve to different tables or to none at all. The constituents are answered on their own rows here, and those rows carry the table placement and the penalty. No single terminal status can honestly be stated for the label.
- Consequences if caught
- Capital exposure: none. Italy has no death penalty, and the dossier's ceiling column puts the Italian maximum at a term of years rather than death or a life term. The ordinary ceiling of 30 years comes from articles 73 and 80 of DPR 309/1990 read with article 78 of the Penal Code, and article 75 handles personal use administratively, but neither track attaches to this label as a label. The exposure depends on which controlled constituent an analysis actually finds, and the same street label can therefore produce a trafficking charge for one sample and nothing under this statute for another.
- If prescribed or medical
- Italy's country level rule, in the dossier's own terms, is that a traveller certificate list or a prescribing summary is not a substitute for the statutory tables, and that acquisition or possession for personal use runs under article 75 of DPR 309/1990 as an administrative matter rather than under the trafficking article. Attached to pink cocaine, that rule meets a label rather than a placement, and the placement only appears once an analysis names what is in the sample. No prescription route exists for a street mixture, and no traveller document can describe a composition that varies between batches. The dossier gives no Italian certificate procedure, and this cell will not construct a per substance one for a name that is not a substance.
- Documentation
- Carry no powder sold as pink cocaine, and understand that the question an Italian officer asks is what the analysis shows rather than what the label says. The instrument is DPR 309/1990, its enumerating provision is article 14, and the Ministry of Health compilation of the tables and its ministerial amendment index were searched on 18 September 2026 without producing a placement for this row. Classification changes by decree published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale rather than by a travel or prescribing summary, and the amendment horizon checked includes the 2026 update that added the nitazene class. The dossier's entry for this row is a note that the mixture has no fixed composition, which is why it carries no single route and no single ceiling.
- DPR 309/1990 article 14 with the Ministry of Health compilation of the narcotics tables and its ministerial amendment index, read at https://www.salute.gov.it/new/it/tema/medicinali-stupefacenti-e-precursori-di-droghe/tabelle-delle-sostanze-stupefacenti-e on 18 September 2026
- route for Pink cocaine: member specific, so no single table route can be stated for the label, dossier entry point «miscela senza composizione fissa»
- DPR 309/1990 at https://www.normattiva.it/eli/id/1990/10/31/090G0363/CONSOLIDATED
- Penal Code article 78 at https://www.normattiva.it/eli/id/1930/10/26/030U1398/CONSOLIDATED
- penalties at DPR 309/1990 articles 73, 75 and 80
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