Is Pink Cocaine / Tusi legal in Ukraine?
- Legal status
- Not applicable as a single status, and Ukraine's own reason is recorded rather than borrowed. Applicability record UKR-76 stopped at applicability because the label does not identify one molecule: the search of Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, was run under the street name, the local trade name and one of the compounds the powder is supposed to contain, and the record states that no single molecule entry can be assigned because the slug denotes a variable product. The result must follow each identified constituent. In this Ukrainian list those constituents are printed separately, at CAS 6740-88-1, CAS 42542-10-9, CAS 50-36-2 and CAS 66142-81-2 among others, so the powder has as many statuses as it has ingredients. The applicability conclusion stands on its own reason, which is that a label is not a molecule, and that reason does not depend on any search. The search itself does. The terms logged are "pink cocaine", "tusi" and the abbreviation of one supposed constituent, all Latin, run against an annex this source records as printed in Cyrillic, so nothing about it could have matched. Read the applicability finding as sound and the accompanying search as unmeasured.
- Consequences if caught
- Capital exposure: none. Ukraine has no death penalty. The trade article the source names is Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, with a ceiling of twelve years of imprisonment at its third part and no life sentence in the article, and наказ МОЗ № 188 keys its small, large and especially large bands to individual headings. Because record UKR-76 assigns no single heading, there is no band for the product as a product, and the grading is built from whichever listed constituents the assay reports. A sample containing two listed substances engages two headings. That is the practical shape of the exposure and no single figure describes it. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Ukraine entry rather than re-derived from the Code in this pass, the published penalties are these. Personal use of a small amount is administrative under article 44 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, a fine of 25 to 50 tax free minimum incomes, 20 to 60 hours of community service, or administrative arrest of up to 15 days. Above small, personal use under article 309 is criminal, a fine, correctional labour of up to two years, or restriction of liberty of up to five years, rising to up to three years where aggravated or large and up to eight years where a minor is involved. Trafficking or sale under article 307 draws four to twelve years with property forfeiture. Smuggling under article 305 draws five to eight years, and up to eight to ten years aggravated. The published entry records the small, large and especially large quantity thresholds as very low, and that trace amounts have triggered article 309. Drug use itself, other than in public, is not criminal there. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine and none of them is a quantity threshold. Whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established, so they are recorded as Ukraine's published drug penalties and not as this row's exposure.
- If prescribed or medical
- Ukraine allows no personal use quantity of a listed substance, наказ МОЗ № 188 grades criminal conduct rather than licensing carriage, and a scheduled medicine must satisfy Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» on prescription, packaging, import and customs. Attached to this row there is no single placement at all under record UKR-76, and no medicinal product is sold under this street label, so no prescription question arises. The country rule reaches the constituents rather than the powder. No import permit, allowance or foreign prescription rule was established here, and none was researched.
- Documentation
- Carry nothing in reliance on this row, because it is a statement that the label does not identify a substance rather than a statement about any substance. The only document that would mean anything is a laboratory report of what a given sample contains, and that report would then be read against the individual Ukrainian headings. A traveller carrying a prescribed medicine that has been mistaken for a coloured powder should carry the original dispensing pack, the pharmacy label in the patient's name, the prescription and a prescriber's letter. Read on 20 September 2026.
- Ukraine, applicability record UKR-76: the street label denotes a variable product and no single molecule entry can be assigned
- searched under the street name, the local trade name and a named constituent in Постанова Кабінету Міністрів України № 770 від 6 травня 2000 року, Перелік, таблиці I to IV, read at https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/770-2000-%D0%BF#Text as at 20 September 2026. Constituents commonly reported are printed separately in that list, including CAS 6740-88-1, CAS 42542-10-9, CAS 50-36-2 and CAS 66142-81-2. List ownership, стаття 7 of Закон України «Про наркотичні засоби, психотропні речовини і прекурсори», https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/60/95-%D0%B2%D1%80#Text. Quantity bands, наказ МОЗ № 188, https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0512-00#Text. Ceiling, Кримінальний кодекс України стаття 307, https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2341-14#Text. Limitation: the logged terms "pink cocaine", "tusi" and a constituent abbreviation are Latin against a Cyrillic annex
- the applicability finding rests on the label rather than on that search.
- the article 44, 305, 307 and 309 penalties stated above are carried forward from this site's published Ukraine entry, which cites the Criminal Code articles 305, 307, 309 and 310, the Code of Administrative Offenses article 44 and Ministry of Health Order No. 188. They were not re-derived from the Code in this pass, and the published entry's own hedges, that the thresholds are very low and that trace amounts have triggered article 309, are carried with them
Court records
We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.
Other substances confirmed in Ukraine
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