Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Tonga?

Also known as: tucibi, tusibi, tuci

Legal status

Pink cocaine, also called tusi, is a street name for a mixture product rather than a single compound, most commonly reported to contain ketamine and MDMA, sometimes with 2C-B or caffeine added, and the colour and name vary by batch. 'Pink cocaine' and 'tusi' as product names were searched against Schedule 1 of the Illicit Drugs Control Act and neither appears. Both commonly reported core constituents, however, are independently named: ketamine appears directly under the «OTHER ILLICIT DRUGS» heading on page 23, and MDMA appears directly in the Class A list on page 21, under the Schedule I, 1971 Convention heading. Schedule 1's opening paragraph extends the illicit-drug designation to 'any preparations including any such substances', so a mixture sold as pink cocaine that in fact contains ketamine, MDMA, or both is reached through that preparations clause even though the product name itself carries no standalone entry.

Consequences if caught

A pink cocaine preparation found to contain ketamine or MDMA is an illicit drug preparation under sections 3 and 4, carrying the Class A band, which the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) Act 2020, Act 15 of 2020, and, at the top tier, the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) Act 2021, Act 19 of 2021, made tiered by quantity rather than flat: a fine not exceeding $10,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 3 years for a quantity under 1 gram; a fine not exceeding $1,000,000 or imprisonment for any period not exceeding life for a quantity of 1 gram or more; and, at the top tier, life imprisonment, the maximum available with no fine alternative, from 28 grams or more for import or export under section 3 or from 5 kilograms or more for possession, manufacture, cultivation, use or supply under section 4, since both named constituents sit in the Class A tier rather than the Class B tier that only «CLASS B12» cannabis occupies. A sample containing only unnamed cutting agents, with neither ketamine nor MDMA present, would not be reached this way, which is why the product name alone cannot answer the question and the actual composition of a given sample determines the exposure.

If prescribed or medical

Neither ketamine nor MDMA has a registered recreational prescription route under Tonga's instruments as read here; section 7's occupational and Ministry of Health exemptions could cover a clinical ketamine product administered by a person whose lawful occupation requires it, but a street-sold pink cocaine mixture is not a clinical product and it is not treated as one here.

Documentation

Illicit Drugs Control Act, Act 7 of 2003, Cap. 4.06, 2020 Revised Edition, Schedule 1, read 2026-10-07, searched for 'pink cocaine' and 'tusi'; no direct entry. Page 23, the «OTHER ILLICIT DRUGS» heading, lists 'Ketamine' first among its eight entries. Page 21, the Class A list under the Schedule I, 1971 Convention heading, lists 'MDMA'. Schedule 1's opening paragraph, page 21, extends control to 'any preparations including any such substances'. 2C-B, also sometimes reported in tusi mixtures, was checked separately for this country and is not named in Schedule 1, so a sample whose only active constituent is 2C-B would not be reached by this preparations route; this entry therefore answers for the ketamine and MDMA constituents specifically, rather than for every possible pink cocaine formulation. Sections 3 and 4, pages 7 to 8, read as the 2020 Revised Edition prints them: both carry the flat Class A figure in force before Act 15 of 2020, $1,000,000 or thirty years, because that reprint predates the 2020 and 2021 amendments below; the Act's own endnotes record sections 3 and 4 as themselves substituted by Act 18 of 2012 (endnotes 5 and 8), so that flat figure is not the 2003 enactment's own text either. Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) Act 2020, Act 15 of 2020, own sections 3 and 4, and Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) Act 2021, Act 19 of 2021, own section 3, were read directly for the current, tiered Class A penalty structure quoted in consequences_street above; neither Act alters the ketamine or MDMA Schedule 1 entries themselves. The two 2024 amendment Acts returned HTTP 404 at the official portal and were not read.

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