Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Portugal?
- Legal status
- Pink cocaine (tusi) is not scheduled as such; it is a variable mixture (typically ketamine + MDMA) prosecuted through its constituents — both MDMA and ketamine are controlled substances under Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93, and that law reaches any preparation containing a scheduled substance. Because the blend varies batch to batch, exposure follows the most-severely-controlled detected component; the substance remains illegal even where personal use is decriminalised.
- Consequences if caught
- Personal possession up to a 10-day supply is an administrative offence (Law 30/2000) — the drug is still confiscated, not legal; trafficking is a crime under Art 21 of Decree-Law 15/93.
- If prescribed or medical
- No lawful supply of the mixture; ketamine is an authorised medicine under the narcotics/psychotropics regime, while MDMA has no marketed medical use.
- Documentation
- Sold as a party powder of unknown makeup; because composition varies batch to batch, buyers cannot know its constituents, so even decriminalised personal-use exposure and any trafficking exposure are unknowable at purchase.
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