2024: First results of the sub-commission on cannabis regulation are expected in the fall

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.

Sven, 21.5.2024

• 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