Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Netherlands?

Also known as: tucibi, tusibi, tuci

Legal status

Controlled to the extent of what the powder actually contains. Pink cocaine, tusi, is a street name for a variable mixture and it is not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II.

Consequences if caught

The answer therefore depends on the contents and not on the name. Where a sample contains MDMA or cocaine, both named in lijst I, the powder is a preparaat as defined in article 1 and article 2 applies with the article 10 ceilings. Where a sample contains only ketamine, the Opiumwet supplies no offence at all, because ketamine is not named in any of the three lists. A buyer cannot know which of those two positions applies to the powder in hand. Use is not itself made an offence by the Opiumwet, which is why the Dutch position is often misread: article 2 and article 3 reach import, export, cultivation, preparation, sale, supply, transport, manufacture and presence, and presence is what a traveller carrying the substance has. Article 10 carries the penalties for lijst I. Intentionally having the substance present, the limb at article 2 under C, carries imprisonment of up to 6 years. Intentionally cultivating, preparing, processing, selling, delivering, supplying, transporting or manufacturing it, article 2 under B and D, carries up to 8 years. Intentionally bringing it into or out of Netherlands territory, article 2 under A, carries up to 12 years, so the trafficking and import limbs run from 8 to 12 years. Where the presence, or the bringing into or out of the territory, concerns a small quantity intended for own use, article 10, sixth limb, lowers the ceiling to 1 year or a fine of the third category; it does not reach the article 2 under B and D acts. The fine on the serious limbs is the fifth category, which the Criminal Code prints at 67.000 euro with an editorial note recording 110.000 euro from 1 January 2026. Article 11 carries the penalties for lijst II. Acting intentionally against article 3 under B, C or D carries imprisonment of up to 2 years, and up to 6 years where the person acts in the exercise of a profession or business. Intentionally bringing it into or out of the territory, article 3 under A, carries up to 4 years. Where the offence concerns a large quantity the two year and the four year cases both rise to 6 years. Article 1 of the Opiumwetbesluit fixes that large quantity at 500 gram hennep, 200 hennepplanten or 500 units of another lijst II substance. The fine is the fifth category, printed at 67.000 euro with an editorial note recording 110.000 euro from 1 January 2026. Article 2a carries the lijst IA prohibition and article 10b its penalties. Acting intentionally against it carries imprisonment of up to 6 years. Acting without intent carries hechtenis of up to 3 months. Where intentional import, export or presence concerns a small quantity for own use the ceiling is 6 months. Article 10c adds up to 3 years for preparatory acts. The fine is the fifth category on the intentional offence and the third category on the others, printed at 67.000 euro and 6.700 euro with editorial notes recording 110.000 euro and 11.000 euro from 1 January 2026. They describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. The Aanwijzing Opiumwet of the Openbaar Ministerie is prosecution policy and not a statute. For lijst I it treats as a small quantity for own use one bolletje, one ampul, one wikkel or one pill or tablet, in any event a quantity of at most 0,5 gram, and for GHB one consumption unit of 5 ml, with no targeted investigation and prosecution only in support of care. A tolerated quantity is not a lawful one. This is stated as at the Opiumwet consolidation in force from 17 September 2026, read at wetten.overheid.nl on 22 September 2026, and it does not rule out a later amendment. The reading these cells previously rested on was the Opiumwet consolidation in force from 9 July 2026, and the 17 September 2026 consolidation read here supersedes it. Article 3a of the Opiumwet lets substances be added to lijst I or lijst II by algemene maatregel van bestuur: under the first limb when they come under the Single Convention or the Psychotropic Substances Convention or must be brought under the Act under Framework Decision 2004/757/JHA or Decision 2005/387/JHA, and under the second limb when they are shown to affect human consciousness and can harm health and society. Under the fifth limb the Minister may designate a substance by ministerial regulation, for at most a year, where a ban cannot wait for that order. The lists can therefore move without an amendment to the Act.

If prescribed or medical

Pink cocaine is a street mixture and no prescription route covers it. Article 2 of the Opiumwetbesluit forbids prescribing an Opiumwet substance unless one of the two bijlagen to that decree names it. Neither names MDMA, and bijlage 1, under d, admits a preparation only where it contains no Opiumwet substance that bijlage does not name, so a mixture containing MDMA cannot be prescribed. Ketamine is not an Opiumwet substance. The live cell recorded that ketamine is a prescription only medicine under the Geneesmiddelenwet and that a ketamine only mixture engages medicines law, and that is carried forward from it and not verified here.

Documentation

The live cell recorded that it is sold as a party powder of unknown makeup and that, because the composition varies from batch to batch, a buyer cannot know whether MDMA, a lijst I substance, is present, so the legal exposure cannot be known at purchase, and that is carried forward from it and not verified here.

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