Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Mexico?

Also known as: tucibi, tusibi, tuci

Legal status

Controlled or not according to what a given sample contains. The street name is not named in article 234 or in any of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, and the substances analyses do find, such as «COCAINA (éster metílico de benzoilecgonina).» and «TENANFETAMINA MDMA dl-3,4-metilendioxi-n,-dimetilfeniletilamina.», are answered by their own entries. The street name covers samples whose contents differ, and analyses commonly find no cocaine in them at all despite the name. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018». The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

Consequences if caught

Where this row sits is settled by what is actually present rather than by the name. Whichever substances a given sample contains are answered by their own entries, and the name itself is printed nowhere in the Act. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and whether any route into them exists for this row is part of what is open. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing, and whether they reach this row is the question this cell leaves open rather than answers. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». Which of those two paragraphs article 194 refers back to is what decides whether this row is inside the federal drug chapter at all, and the printed text does not settle it. That is a reading of the code and is recorded here as one. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.

If prescribed or medical

There is no prescription question to answer until a sample is analysed, because the name does not identify a substance. No single prescription answer attaches to this row, because the Act answers the names it prints and not the category. Where a named constituent is present, that constituent's own group decides the rule: articles 240 onward for an estupefaciente, article 248 for the first group of article 245, article 251 for the third and article 252 for the fourth. A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition.

Documentation

Carry nothing on the strength of the category name, because the category is not what articles 234 and 245 of the Ley General de Salud read. Identify what is actually present and carry its prescription and labelled packaging if it has one. The street name covers samples whose contents differ, and analyses commonly find no cocaine in them at all despite the name. The printed entries relied on for this row were read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.

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