Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Suriname?

Legal status

Pink cocaine is a street label for a powder of variable composition rather than a substance, and no entry of that name appears in either list. Its position follows whatever a sample turns out to contain, and the two substances the label most often points at take opposite answers under this act. The text read for this cell is the consolidation that stops at S.B. 2002 no. 68, so it is twenty four years old. Article 3 lid 2 lets further middelen be designated by Staatsbesluit and article 3 lid 3 lets the Minister designate one at short notice with the approval of the Procureur-Generaal, and article 4 lid 2 does the same for lijst II. No register of those designations was located, so anything added since 2002 is outside what was read and this does not rule out a later designation.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. This act carries no death penalty and its heaviest sentence is levenslange gevangenisstraf, life imprisonment, under article 11 lid 1. Searched as 'tusi', 'tucibi', 'roze' and 'cocaïne'. Only the last returns. The split is worth setting out because it is unusually wide here. Cocaine is printed at lijst I onderdeel A as 'Cocaïne' with footnote 5, so a sample containing it is a lijst I middel and supply carries levenslange gevangenisstraf under article 11 lid 1. 2C-B, which the name of the powder derives from, is printed nowhere in either list, and the nearest entry, 'Brolamfetamine' at lijst I onderdeel C, is a different substance. Powders sold under this label commonly contain ketamine, which is also absent, or MDMA, which is printed at lijst I onderdeel C. So the same label can produce a life exposed charge, a thirteen year charge or no charge at all under this act, and only an analysis settles which. One structural point governs how far an entry reaches. Only lijst I onderdeel A closes with the isomer, ester, ether and salt clauses; lijst I onderdeel B closes with an isomer and salt clause; and lijst I onderdeel C, lijst I onderdeel D and both parts of lijst II onderdeel A close with a single sentence, 'Preparaten die één of meer van vorengenoemde substanties bevatten', preparations containing one or more of the substances named above, and nothing else. There is no analogue limb and no definition by effect anywhere in the act. No offence in this act attaches to a middel that is not on lijst I or lijst II and has not been designated under article 3 lid 2, article 3 lid 3 or article 4 lid 2, because every prohibition in articles 3 and 4 is framed by reference to those lists and those designations, and the act contains no analogue limb and no definition by effect. If a designation has been made, the bands are the ones the act sets for the list the substance is put on. On lijst I, possession and use are article 3 lid 1 under C and carry at most thirteen years under article 11 lid 3, while supply, manufacture and the import, export and transit limb carry levenslange gevangenisstraf under article 11 lid 1. On lijst II, supply, possession and manufacture all carry at most thirteen years under article 11 lid 3 and only the import, export and transit limb carries levenslange gevangenisstraf. Because no register of designations was read, a reader cannot be told which of those applies, and that is why this row is left unresolved rather than reported as permitted.

If prescribed or medical

A powder or product sold under this label has no medicinal form and no prescription route of its own. If it in fact contains a substance on lijst I or lijst II, the article 5 recept machinery and the article 7 exemptions apply to that substance and not to the label. This act does not place it on either list, so the article 5 recept machinery and the article 7 exemptions do not reach it. Whether it is regulated as a medicine, as a food or as a consumer product under Suriname's separate law was not established here, because that law was not read.

Documentation

Carry any prescription medicine in its original packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with the Surinamese authorities before travelling, because the list read here stops in 2002. Even for a substance that is on the lists, the own medical use exemption in article 7 lid 3 covers possession and carriage inside Suriname and does not cover limb A of article 3 lid 1 or of article 4 lid 1, the import, export and transit limb, for which article 6 lid 1 requires the permission of the Minister after approval by the Procureur-Generaal bij het Hof van Justitie. The text relied on stops at S.B. 2002 no. 68. Any lijst, onderdeel or numbered part named in this cell are read from the annex to the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, whose quotation column for this jurisdiction carries no division marker for any substance.

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