Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Moldova?
- Legal status
- Not applicable as a single status. The label does not identify one molecule, so a molecule level schedule outcome is not the kind of answer this row can have. The repair searched Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 for "pink cocaine", "tusi", "2C-B" and stopped at applicability rather than running on to an absence, recording that decision immediately as record MOL-76. The repair's own record for the substance most often sold under this label is a printed entry with a registry number, so a sample proved to be that molecule lands on a printed row while the label itself lands nowhere. The label and the molecule are two different questions and only the second has an answer. The route to an answer is therefore through each identified constituent: prove what is in the sample, then read the decision's printed entry for that molecule. This is a confirmed cell and not a deferral, because the repair reached a settled conclusion about the question rather than failing to settle it. Read as at 20 September 2026.
- Consequences if caught
- Capital exposure: none. Moldova provides no death penalty for a drug offence, and Article 217¹ of the Codul penal does not provide life imprisonment either, so the top of the scale is a term of years. The ceiling is fifteen years under Article 217¹(4), and it attaches to whatever molecule is proved to be present rather than to the label. Record MOL-76 stopped at applicability, so no band and no article is assigned to the label itself. There is no lawful personal use allowance, and a quantity band under Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 is a measuring rule for an identified substance and not a permission to possess anything. Where a constituent is identified and is a printed entry, the full scale applies to that constituent on its own terms; where it is not, the question stays with that constituent's own row. In practice a sample sold under this label is often the brominated phenethylamine, which is a printed entry with its own band, so the exposure can be the full scheduled one even though the label carries none. [Likely] Carried forward from the published entry and not re-derived from statute in this pass: The ceiling is 15 years.
- If prescribed or medical
- Moldova states its traveller rule at country level rather than substance by substance. A scheduled medicine has to satisfy Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente together with the prescription, packaging, import and customs rules, and a criminal quantity band under Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 is not a lawful traveller allowance. This row has no single placement to attach, because record MOL-76 stopped at applicability. The rule therefore applies through whichever identified constituent is in hand and through that constituent's own placement, and a traveller cannot resolve the question from the label. The repair records no medical route for the label itself, which is the expected result for something that is not a single medicinal substance. The placement follows each identified constituent, and one constituent commonly sold under this label is itself a printed entry, so a sample can be fully scheduled while the label is not placeable.
- Documentation
- Carry documentation for each identified constituent, because there is nothing to carry for the label itself. Record MOL-76 searched "pink cocaine", "tusi", "2C-B" and stopped at applicability, so a traveller cannot get an answer by naming the product and has to name the molecule. If any constituent is a printed entry in the decision, that constituent's rules govern the whole item in practice. Provenance follows. The controlling text is Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006, read in the official consolidated record on 20 September 2026 through the legislation portal legis.md, with the first and final annex headings and the final available amendment page checked. Treat an unverified street product as carrying the strictest status among whatever it might contain, because that is the risk a border check actually presents.
- Moldova, Pink cocaine, from the 20 September 2026 repair dossier record MOL-76, search set "pink cocaine", "tusi", "2C-B"
- framework statute Legea nr. 382/1999 cu privire la circulaţia substanţelor stupefiante, psihotrope şi a precursorilor
- offences and ceiling at Codul penal, Article 217 and Article 217¹, with the ceiling at Article 217¹(4)
- searched in the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 and stopped at applicability
- outcome recorded by the source: not applicable, carried here as a confirmed cell and not as a deferral
- read as in force on 20 September 2026 on the official Moldovan legislation portal
- legis.md
- legis.md
- https://www.legis.md/ The sentence band in this cell is carried forward from the entry published before this batch and was not re-derived from the statute in this pass
- it is tagged [Likely] where it appears.
Court records
We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.
Other substances confirmed in Moldova
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