Information from Association Legalize it! (April 2026)

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On May 6, the National Council's Social Security and Health Committee (SGK-N) will discuss the reactions to its draft of the Cannabis Products Act (CanPG). You can read about developments so far here. This should be followed by a media release that will hopefully clarify the next steps. The Commission can go in different directions: Call off the exercise, revise it again, go through with it… Anything seems possible at the moment and we are curious.

Our policy group will next meet on Friday, May 8, 6 pm. We will discuss the latest developments and plan how we want to position ourselves. Anyone interested in this topic is welcome to register for the meeting.

Here are our web updates from the last few weeks:

20.04.2026 – Our activities at the CannaTrade

The CannaTrade will take place from May 29 to 31. We will be present with a stand, lecture and podium:

We are running stand 194 (see also the hall plan. If you would like to help distribute flyers, talk to people or look after the stand, please get in touch.

On Friday, May 29, 14:00, our secretary Sven will give a presentation on the Cannabis Products Act and provide an overview and outlook.

Afterwards at 14:30 Sven will lead the panel on the same topic. You can find the whole program here.

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Maybe we'll see each other?

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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We wish you a pleasant start to the summer season!

Hemp greetings

Fabian, Markus, Michael and Sven

Board Association Legalize it!

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