Information from Association Legalize it! (September 2025)

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Here are our web updates from the last few weeks:

22.09.2025 – Paying without guilt

Today an extremely special story from road traffic. It shows that even if you don't consume anything, you still have to pay high costs if the police have suspicions: A driver is checked, all tests are negative, medical examination positive, but costs of around 1,500 francs and the legal expenses insurance doesn't really want to take action…

But read for yourself: Road traffic: Paying without guilt. A really unpleasant story!

16.09.2025 – Initial conclusion

Last Saturday, we discussed the draft Cannabis Products Act from 12 noon to 7 pm.

The provisions on consumption are pretty good: consumption is free, possession and cultivation are legal with limits. However, the maximum of three plants and cultivation only in one's own home is restrictive.

Commercial cultivation and production is possible with a permit, as is already the case today for pilot projects. The first big catch is the sale: this will only be possible with a license, which is very restrictive. A company receives a permit if it meets the conditions. A license, on the other hand, can be refused even if the conditions are met.

The biggest problem, however, is the level of the incentive tax: this is determined and adjusted by the Federal Council in an ordinance. The amount is therefore not laid down in the law. However, there is an illustrative table in the report that contains such high rates that a gram of weed or hash with 20 % THC would cost over 20 francs. This is hardly a serious threat to the black market (and, incomprehensibly, this goal is not mentioned anywhere in the law).

We are now working on our consultation response in detail until the end of September.

09.09.2025 – Consultation documents

The draft bill for a Cannabis Products Act already comprises a hefty 47 pages. Even if page 47 is empty (to relax, so to speak), it's still quite a chunk: the draft contains 92 articles, plus amendments to other laws. The explanatory report comprises 182 pages, plus a few pages of bibliography. That also takes hours!

Is it really that complicated with hemp? Not really. But the draft wants a lot of control, so it regulates the whole thing very meticulously.

Now some activists have read the texts and discussed them in advance. This Saturday, September 13, we will discuss the whole thing open-ended from 12 noon. We're looking forward to hearing what the various campaigners think!

Note: September 15 is the Knabenschiessen in Zurich, so our office will be closed for the holiday.

02.09.2025 – Magazine Legalize it! No. 107 has been published & No. 106 is online

Our members are currently receiving the latest issue 107 of our magazine Legalize it!
The fall issue contains a political update on the start of the consultation process for the Cannabis Products Act, a second look at the 2024 prosecution figures in relation to the hash/weed ratio and age distribution and finally an article on the digitization of our paper archive.
We will make the complete magazine available as a PDF from December.
Become a member so that you are always up to date (e.g. also by e-mail) – you make our activities possible and support the association. Legalize it!

We have also published another issue of our magazine Legalize it! as PDF. The Issue 106 is now available for download both as a whole and as individual articles in the Politics, Justice and Scene sections. The current issue (#107) is still reserved for our members.

29.08.2025 – Consultation on the Cannabis Products Act

The documents have now been published. The following documents are available to read (in German, French is also available):

Draft Cannabis Products Act

Explanatory report

The consultation homepage contains links to further documents

There are currently no drafts of the ordinances that would contain important clarifications.
Everyone should read the texts as quickly as possible and give feedback if they are interested. What do you think is good, what is bad? In which direction should our consultation response go?

26.08.2025 – Current documents on the criminal prosecution

Many people cannot imagine being involved in criminal proceedings for THC. Most of the time, everything goes well: be it consumption, sale, driving… However, well over 10,000 people are involved in such criminal proceedings for hemp every year. We have posted some current documents from 2025 that show how such criminal proceedings can end.

We are always interested in documents (summary penalty orders, decrees, protocols, investigations and experience reports). Because the law is one thing, but the actual implementation can only be seen in the sentencing orders issued by the public prosecutor's offices. You are welcome to email them to us, bring them to us or send them to us via WhatsApp or Threema (see the information in the footer of this page).

We wish you a colorful autumn!

Hemp greetings

Fabian, Markus, Michael and Sven

Board Association Legalize it!

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