Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Netherlands?
- Legal status
- Pink cocaine (tusi) is not scheduled as such; it is a variable mixture (typically ketamine + MDMA) prosecuted through its constituents — the Netherlands lists MDMA as a List I 'hard drug' under the Opium Act (Opiumwet) while ketamine is a prescription-only medicine under the Geneesmiddelenwet and is not on Opium Act List I/II, and the Act reaches any preparation containing a listed drug. Because the blend varies batch to batch, exposure follows the most-severely-controlled component, so an MDMA-containing tusi sample is a List I offence.
- Consequences if caught
- An MDMA-positive mixture is a List I hard-drug offence (possession and supply criminal — tolerance policy does not apply to hard drugs); a ketamine-only mixture engages medicines law.
- If prescribed or medical
- No lawful supply of the mixture; ketamine is a legitimate prescribed medicine, whereas MDMA is a prohibited List I hard drug.
- Documentation
- Sold as a party powder of unknown makeup; because composition varies batch to batch, buyers cannot know whether List I MDMA is present, so legal exposure is unknowable at purchase.
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