Legalization: regulatory options

Sven has drawn up a list of the central points that must be clarified in the event of legalization. Next to it is a table with the possible ranges in which these individual points can be regulated. I have presented these in three levels: liberal, restricted and restrictive regulation.

As a first step, this legalization grid does not contain any ratings. The point here is not to list my favorite variant. It shows which possibilities of regulation I have encountered so far.

Ultimately, the goal is to distill this into a legalization variant that can command a majority in Switzerland. But this still needs many steps, especially representative surveys like the one conducted by Sotomo. The final point would be when concrete paragraphs for the constitution, the hemp law and the hemp ordinances could be worked out.

Legal means that something is not fundamentally prohibited, but that there are legal ways of dealing with it. This fundamental legality is made more liberal or more restrictive by specific regulations.

In a concrete legalization variant, points from the liberal column can be combined with points from the restricted or restrictive column.

The first part is about consumption and the preparatory acts for it: Who may legally buy, possess, produce for themselves and consume what, how much, where, when, how, and for what purpose?

The second part is about production and sale: who can legally produce and sell what, how much, where, when, how, and for what purpose?

“CSC” means Cannabis Social Club.

I have omitted the following special topics: THC while driving, THC and driver's license, THC at work, THC in medical use. I also left out dealing with the international drug conventions. These points are important. But when it comes to driving, I think there needs to be a basic legalization first before we can even talk about adjusting the current regulations. Pharmaceuticals are generally regulated differently, and there is already a concrete revision of the law that is to come into force in the summer of 2022. The handling of the international conventions must be clarified; this seems to me to be very important, but it is beyond our possibilities at the moment (the question would be: cancel, make “subsequent reservations” or ignore?).

On the one hand, you can go through this list and ask yourself which regulations you think are desirable. On the other hand, you can ask yourself which variants could be acceptable to the majority. Because in the end, you need a majority: in parliament, among the cantons, among the voters. I am very interested in your feedback!

Four things would be important to me:

1) Alcohol, tobacco, medicines, cannabis, sugar and other drugs should be

• may not be advertised.
• must be sold in separate stores.
• be provided with a high tax rate.

2) As for all products, I would find it great if national legislation would set meaningful rules such as organic production only, but of course this is illusory.

3) For cannabis, I would also find a maximum THC content important. Unfortunately, I can't judge where this should be.

4) Indoor should be prohibited for ecological reasons. Please make this also popular in the LI!

Otherwise, I agree with the liberal variant.