Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in New Zealand?

Also known as: tucibi, tusibi, tuci

Legal status

Not applicable as a single status, and not because the Act is silent. Pink cocaine is a street label rather than a substance: the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 defines a controlled drug as any substance, preparation, mixture or article specified or described in Schedule 1, 2 or 3, and a label that names no molecule and fixes no mixture cannot be specified or described anywhere. New Zealand's list is closed for named substances and works entry by entry, with the section 2 analogue limb open behind it, so a powder sold under this name is whatever it analyses as, and the same name can produce a different class from one sample to the next. Whatever a sample turns out to contain is answered by that substance's own row in this table, and those rows, not this one, carry the schedule placements. No single terminal status can honestly be stated for the label itself.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. New Zealand has no death penalty, and life under section 6 attaches only to a Class A controlled drug. No single ceiling attaches to the label: the constituent class controls, which is life for Class A, 14 years for Class B and 8 years for Class C under section 6, and 6 months for Class A possession or 3 months for Classes B and C under section 7. A sample that analyses as a Class A drug carries the life ceiling while one that analyses as nothing scheduled carries neither figure. The rows for the individual substances, not this row, supply the numbers.

If prescribed or medical

Not established for a traveller. This dossier carries no country-level rule for entering New Zealand with a prescribed medicine: it records that medicines status has to be checked alongside the analogue exclusions and the Psychoactive Substances Act 2013 route, and that a court-grade conclusion can turn on the medicine exclusions, but it states no declaration requirement, no permit, no quantity allowance and no carry limit at the border, and none was researched for this cell. There is also nothing to attach a placement to here, because pink cocaine is a label rather than a substance and has no schedule placement of its own. Nothing here should be read as a ruling on a lawfully prescribed and lawfully carried supply, which is a different question this cell does not answer. Settle the border question with the Ministry of Health, whose classification order implementation page this dossier cites, and with the New Zealand border authority, before travelling.

Documentation

Carry the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 consolidation current at 20 September 2026 and the section 2 definition of a controlled drug, because that definition is what makes a street label unanswerable as a class. Read the analysis of the actual sample, not the name it was sold under, and then read the row in this table for whatever the analysis names. Carry the classification chain this finding was read against as well: the 2022 and 2025 Classification and Presumption of Supply Orders with their commencement orders, the 2024 pseudoephedrine amendment, and the 2026 Order, which was made but is not treated as law in this dossier because its own section 2 leaves commencement to the Governor-General and no commencement instrument was located by the horizon. Carry the date as well, 20 September 2026, because in New Zealand a classification order can move a substance between classes without a word of the Act changing.

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