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Cannabis pilot trials

On January 30, 2023, the first cannabis pilot project started in Basel-Stadt! There, 180 study participants can now legally buy THC cannabis at the pharmacy. In 6 months, the second half of the total of 374 study participants will start.

The pilot projects are scientific studies to gain knowledge about the effects of a regulated use of cannabis for non-medical purposes.

Legal basis

Since mid-May 2021, the law article on cannabis pilot trials and the ordinance have come into force. Applications for pilot trials can now be submitted to the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH).

Status Legalize it Social Club

We run one of the 10 social clubs together with the city of Zurich, our Hanfstübli.

We are currently enrolling study participants.

You can sign up for the study at hanfstueb.li!

Map of all projects

Our map of all Swiss pilot projects

Schedule of all projects

Schedule

Location	First sale pilot project
Canton Basel-Stadt	Started since January 30, 2023 🎉
City of Zurich	Started since August 22, 2023 🎉
Canton Basel-Land	End 2023
Bern	Fall 2023
Lausanne	September 2023
Biel (partner of Bern)	End summer 2023
Lucerne (partner of Bern)	Winter 2023/2024
Geneva	not yet known
St. Gallen	not yet known
Olten	not yet known
Winterthur	not yet known
Thun	not yet known

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More info

Fall 2023: Association Legalize it! Social Club: The Hanfstübli shortly before the start
Summer 2023: Association Legalize it! Social Club in the making
Cannabis sales: Green light for Bern, Lucerne and Biel
City of Zurich cannabis project: Federal Office of Public Health grants approval
Winter 2022/23: No Cannabis Social Club in 2022 yet: what happened?
Basel pharmacies now have weed on sale - for the chosen few [German] (tagesanzeiger.ch, 30.01.2023)
Bernese cantonal government rejects cannabis dispensary project [German] (bluewin.ch, 26.01.2023)
Fall 2022: Cannabis pilot projects: Now it's getting concrete
2023 will be the Swiss hemp year [German] (derbund.ch, 6.10.2022)
Organic directive prevents legal cannabis sale [German] (srf.ch, 23.9.2022)
Due to poor quality: cannabis sales in pharmacies delayed [German] (telebasel.ch, 9.9.2022)
Summer 2022: The pilot projects in the approval phase
Radio SRF 1, «Regional Diagonal» from 2.7.22: Das Magazin – Zürich sucht Leute fürs legale Kiffen (until 3:22 Min.)
Winter 2021/22: Further steps towards a cannabis social club
Original documents and links can be found on the overview page of the FOPH (text of the law, text of the ordinance, explanatory report).
A pilot project for cannabis social clubs?
Winter 20/21: Cannabis pilot testing ahead of implementation
Tagesanzeiger of January 18, 2021: In the city of Zurich will soon be sold legally weed
Watson, March 31, 2021: Federal Council approves cannabis pilot trials starting in May
Here you can find the history of the completed parliamentary deliberations: Business 19.021 on parlament.ch
"Attitude legalization and regulation cannabis" by Sotomo on behalf of the FOPH.
Olten - Cannabis pilot trial goes into the next round (July 8, 2022).

Development

Since 2005 there have been many discussions whether experimental projects with actually prohibited hemp (1% THC and more) should and could be carried out. Now the parliamentary consultations on this have been concluded in September 2020.

You can find our articles on the amendment of NarcA from the last years here.