2026: The evaluation of the consultation responses should be published.

2025: The subcommittee has completed its work. The text of the law and the explanatory report is available at the end of summer, and the consultation runs until the end of November.

2022: The medical prescription of cannabis no longer requires an exceptional permit.

2021: Cannabis pilot projects are now possible (until 2031 at the latest), the first will start in 2022.

2016-2018: The attempt to gather the human and financial resources for a new initiative fails.

2013: 10g cannabis becomes exempt from punishment, the fixed penalties for supervised consumption are introduced (this required federal court rulings in 2017, 2019 and 2023: Punishment really not possible; also applies to young people; confiscation also not permitted).

2011: The partial revision of NarcA comes into force (heroin distribution definitive, four pillars, 1 % THC limit).

2008: The hemp initiative is rejected.

2005: Zero tolerance of THC in road traffic is introduced.

2004: The National Council definitively rejects decriminalization. All discussions since 1996 are thus off the table.

• Spring 2025: Hemp policy: What's in the pipeline?
• Spring 2024: Where is the first concrete step?
• Winter 2023/24: The sub-commission may continue discussions
• Overview of the legal situation for hemp products, with discussion of possible changes (November 2023, in German)
• Spring 2023: Legalization in the endless loop?
• Fall 2022: Another cannabis policy cycle begins
• Summer 2022: What became of the parliamentary initiative?
• Spring 2022: Next policy steps: Permits, facilitations
• Winter 2021/22: Opinion of the population on legalization and regulation
• Winter 2021/22: Policy overview: What has been going on?
• Summer 2021: Federal Council report: clarify, wait, 2031...
• Summer 2021: When will it become legal in Switzerland?
• Summer 2021: Policy overview: What has been going on?
• Study "Attitude legalization and regulation cannabis" by Sotomo on behalf of the FOPH (July2021).
• Spring 2021: The state of politics at the beginning of the year 2021
• Winter 20/21: New proposal in parliament: Will it bring a breakthrough?
• Winter 20/21: Deliberations on medicinal hemp have begun
• A pilot project for cannabis social clubs?
• Winter 20/21: Cannabis pilot testing ahead of implementation
• Fall 2020: pilots on track, but what can they deliver?
• Spring 2020: A first accent in the newly elected parliament
• A changed parliament and the pending hemp business in winter 2019/20
• Ahead of the October 2019 elections and overview of the four areas of hemp policy.
• Overview of the four areas of hemp policy in the summer of 2019.
• Hemp policy at the end of 2018: legalization a long way off
• The political situation in autumn 2018
• Summer 2017: The cities in search of a better deal
• Spring 2016: Switzerland discusses and lags behind
• Book Recommendation Fall 2015: The Cannabis Madness - Why Prohibition Hurts Us
• Summer 2015: The next big thing or repression as usual?
• Spring 2015: Bern wants to finalize the project
• The state of discussions in summer 2014

A good insight into the problems that would have to be solved in the case of a municipal cannabis dispensary is provided by the response of the Basel-Stadt government council to a question from a member of parliament in May 2014:

• Request overview
• PDF with the comprehensive answer of the government council

• Summer 2013: The fixed penalties come as of October 1, 2013
• Spring 2013: Overview of the provisions of the fixed penalty bill
• Winter 2012/13: The fixed penalty are decided
• Fall 2012: Protracted discussions about a small innovation
• Summer 2012: fixed penalties in parliamentary consultation
• Spring 2012: Current political developments
• Winter 2011/12: The fixed penalties before parliamentary consultation
• Spring 2011: The conditions for fixed penalties in clarification
• Winter 2010/2011: The fixed penalties under discussion
• Spring 2010: Overview of the political projects
• Summer 2009: fixed penalties for THC use - the state of the discussion

• Spring 2009: A review of the hemp initiative
• Winter 2008/09: November 30, 2008 is the past
• Autumn 2008: Arguments for the hemp initiative
• Fall 2008: A lot will be decided on November 30, 2008
• Summer 2008: Parliament has passed - now it's the people's turn
• Spring 2008: We bring clarity into the confusion
• Spring 2008: The hemp initiative without a chance?
• Winter 2007/08: Politics after the elections
• Politics does not want legalization - the dealers are happy!
• A change without real improvements
• The policy at discuss, weigh and consider
• A new multi-year political cycle begins
• The signatures are almost collected
• All psychoactive should be treated equally
• The NarcA-revision starts again from the beginning
• The Cantonal Basel Cannabis Report