Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Saudi Arabia?

Legal status

Pink cocaine is a market label rather than a substance, so it takes no single schedule placement in Saudi Arabia. The dossier's own instruction for this row is «pink-cocaine: يلزم تحديد كل مكوّن وفحصه في الجداول من الأول إلى الرابع.», identify each constituent and test it against Schedules I to IV. The name describes a coloured powder whose composition varies from batch to batch and seller to seller, and which frequently contains no cocaine at all; ketamine, MDMA, methamphetamine, caffeine and various cathinones have all been reported in material sold under it. Each of those has its own entry in the schedules attached to the Law of Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, Royal Decree M/39 of 1426 AH, in the version issued on 4 September 2026, at different categories, so the legal answer follows the analysis of the actual sample rather than the name it was sold under. This cell is confirmed in that finding rather than deferred: the reason there is no one placement is known, and it is that there is no one substance.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure follows the constituent identified, not the label, and the label predicts nothing. Article 37(I) is available against a scheduled narcotic or psychotropic and states no quantity at all: the conduct named is smuggling, receipt from a smuggler, and import, export, manufacture, production, extraction or cultivation with intent to promote, together with the repeat promotion histories the article sets out, with no weight threshold anywhere in it. Death under Article 37(I) is a statutory ta'zir penalty and it is not mandatory, because Article 37(II) gives the court the power to reduce it; where the court does reduce, the substitute is a prison term of not less than fifteen years with the lashes and the fine the article states. No express life imprisonment wording was found anywhere in M/39. Most constituents reported in this product are scheduled, so the practical expectation is that Article 37 is engaged through one of them, but which one it is remains a question for the laboratory and not for this cell.

If prescribed or medical

The Saudi traveller rule is a permit rule rather than a prescription rule, and it attaches to a substance with a schedule placement. Pink cocaine has none, because it is not a substance, so no permit category can be stated for it and the question resolves only once the constituents are identified. No medicinal product of this description exists and no Saudi dispensing route was recorded, so nothing here should be read as suggesting a clearance could be sought for it.

Documentation

There is nothing to carry and nothing that could be documented, because there is no product of this name with a lawful import route. For any controlled medicine, apply through the SFDA Controlled Drugs System before travelling, carry the clearance and not the prescription alone, bring the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a medical report translated into Arabic and dated less than six months before travel, and declare it at customs; advance electronic clearance has been required since 1 November 2025. The permit mechanics stated here are the SFDA traveller rules recorded on the current live cell and were not re-derived from the instrument in this pass. The constituent by constituent instruction for this row was applied against the 4 September 2026 schedules on 17 September 2026.

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