14.04.2026 – Narcotics statistics 2025: preview

The Federal Statistical Office (FSO) had already published the Narcotics statistics (BMS) for the year 2025 at the end of March. However, the «big table», which we have always used for our analysis, will not be submitted until the summer. We hope that the data will still be comparable with the older years after the revision…

However, the available figures for the «selected cases» show a familiar picture: the progressive shrinking of «countable» repression. Even in 2025, the numbers have fallen again and are now at a fifth of the record year 2015 with the seed persecution at that time.

Will repression soon be over? Hardly: the 13,369 criminal offenses across Switzerland in 2025 still mean an average of over 36 cases a day involving only cannabis products (without a combination, see chart). The number of cases in combination with other substances is relatively low and is particularly visible in the case of consumption offenses.

In our upcoming summer issue of the Legalize it! No. 110 we will report in more detail on last year's figures. In doing so, we will look at both the seized cannabis products and selected cannabis offenses in combination with other substances.

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