Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Myanmar?

Also known as: tucibi, tusibi, tuci

Legal status

Pink cocaine has no fixed composition, so what it is in law depends on what is actually in the package. That is a real answer rather than an evasion. The Law confers status one declared drug at a time, so what decides a case is whichever of cocaine, ketamine and MDMA is actually present, all three of which the notifications name. A street label is not a legal identity, and neither notification carries an entry that answers to that name.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: not established. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law 1993 was read in the copy at myanmartradeportal.gov.mm/legal/344, fetched 18 September 2026, and the amendments in Law 17/2025 were read from the Global New Light of Myanmar, 7 January 2026, pages 3 and 5, on 3 October 2026. Section 20 takes «a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance» as its object, and section 2 defines both by delegation: a narcotic drug is the poppy, coca or cannabis plant, or a plant the Ministry has declared, and what is derived or extracted from it, or «drugs which the Ministry of Health has, by notification declared to be a narcotic drug», and a psychotropic substance is «drugs which the Ministry of Health has, by notification declared» to be one. This substance is not one of the three named plants or an extract of one, so whether section 20 reaches it turns on a Ministry of Health notification, and for a class or a label the answer turns on which member or constituent is present, so no capital provision is asserted for the row as a whole. The band follows the constituent, not the label. Once the actual substance is identified, the ladder is the ordinary one: section 16(c) carries 5 to 10 years for possession, transportation, transmission and transfer, section 19 carries 10 years to life imprisonment where the purpose was sale, and section 20 carries 15 years to life imprisonment or death for production, distribution, sale, import and export. Law 17/2025 replaced «life imprisonment without limit» in the introduction of sections 19 and 20 with «life imprisonment», and its new section 2(i) defines that as «a prison sentence imposed on a convicted person requiring them to remain incarcerated until death». The two definitions are not symmetrical, and for a preparation the asymmetry decides the question. Section 2(a)(ii) defines a narcotic drug to include substances containing any type of such drug, so a mixture carrying a notified narcotic is itself caught even though the mixture's own name appears nowhere. Section 2(b) itself has no containing limb, but paragraph 2 of Notification 25/2025, as read here from its Burmese text, extends each listed psychotropic substance to drugs and other substances containing it and to preparations mixed with it, so a mixture carrying a listed psychotropic substance is caught through the notification. So what matters is which constituent is notified and which of the two definitions caught it. It exists, and it is real, but it attaches to the constituent and not to the name on the packet. Section 20 reaches death for production, distribution, sale, import or export of any notified narcotic drug or psychotropic substance, with a minimum of 15 years and no weight floor at all, and death is not mandatory on its own wording because the section holds out imprisonment as the alternative and joins the two with the words or with death. A constituent that the Ministry has declared carries that exposure in full. What cannot be done is to state one quantity or one capital answer for Pink cocaine as a whole, because section 26, as Law 17/2025 replaced it, names some substances one by one, then sets three grammes under subsection (j) and one hundred millilitres under subsection (k) for other narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, without saying how the two divide, and it names no preparation and no product label, so the figure depends on what the material is found to contain. Sections 22 and 23 then take an offender to the maximum punishment provided for the offence, section 22 where it was committed as part of a local or foreign criminal organisation or group, with arms or explosives, using a child who has not completed the age of 18, which Law 17/2025 substituted for 16 in section 22(c), or through the influence or power of a public servant, and section 23 where there is a prior conviction for any offence prescribed in sections 16 to 21. What this cell states is the statute as written. It is not a description of enforcement. Policing of these provisions since February 2021 is not what the text describes, and substantial areas of the country sit outside central government control, so the law on the page and the treatment a person actually meets are two different questions.

If prescribed or medical

Whether a medical route exists turns on the member, not on the group. Section 28(c) exempts use, possession and transportation permitted by the Ministry of Health under the direction of a registered medical practitioner, and section 28(b) covers use in the manner prescribed for medical treatment with the consent of the relevant Ministry. Those are available for a constituent that is a medicine and meaningless for one that is not, so Pink cocaine cannot be answered as a single prescribing question. Each exemption is a Myanmar permission, and a foreign prescription is not one.

Documentation

What to carry depends on what is actually in the package, because that is the question this Law asks about Pink cocaine. Identify the constituent first, then take the documentation answer for that constituent: there is no paperwork that covers Pink cocaine as a category, and a label or a receipt describing it by that name settles nothing on its own. Where the rule comes from. The instrument is the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, State Law and Order Restoration Council Law 1/93, as amended by Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law 6/2018. The substance lists are not in the Law itself. Section 2(a)(i) makes the poppy, coca and cannabis plants, or a plant the Ministry has declared, and substances and drugs derived or extracted from them, narcotic drugs on the Law's own words, and section 2(a)(ii) adds what the Ministry of Health declares by notification, section 2(b) does the same for a psychotropic substance, and section 30(b), as substituted in 2018, is the power: the Central Body and the Ministries concerned may issue notifications, orders, directives, and procedures. The live lists are Notification 24/2025 for narcotic drugs and Notification 25/2025 for psychotropic substances. Checked 17 September 2026. Placement for Pink cocaine: no entry under this name, and the position is decided by whichever of cocaine, ketamine and MDMA is actually present, all three of which the notifications name. Because “pink cocaine” is a variable mixture rather than one molecule, schedule and section consequences must be calculated from the actual controlled constituents. The Law was further amended by the Second Amendment to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, National Defence and Security Council Law 17/2025, enacted on 31 December 2025, whose English text was published in the Global New Light of Myanmar on 7 January 2026, pages 3 and 5. That text carries no separate commencement clause. Among other changes, it replaced section 26, the deemed sale quantities, restored the expression «the Ministry of Health», replaced «Coca tree» with «Coca» in sections 2(a)(i) and 16(a), replaced the expression «life imprisonment without limit» in sections 19 and 20 with «life imprisonment», which its new section 2(i) defines, leaving the death alternative in section 20 in place, and raised the age in section 22(c) from 16 to 18; the other fields of this cell apply the Law as amended by it. The English text read is a newspaper publication of the law, not the official Burmese text.

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