Cannabis Pilot Projects

With this bill, a legal basis was created for the implementation of scientific pilot tests with cannabis, limited in terms of location, time and subject matter, in order to gain knowledge about the effects of the regulated use of cannabis for non-medical purposes.

The ordinance on cannabis pilot trials came into force in mid-May 2021. Applications for pilot trials can now be submitted to the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH). Concrete trial projects will probably start in 2022.

The city of Zurich has published details of the Zurich Cannabis Study on https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/cannabisprojekt on September 14, 2021. We have received as one of 10 associations the provisional permit for the operation of a cannabis social club from the city of Zurich. Now the city will submit all applications collectively to the FOPH in the 1st quarter of 2022. The project can then start in autumn 2022 at the earliest.

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• Organic directive prevents legal cannabis sale [in German] (srf.ch, 23.9.2022)
• Due to poor quality: cannabis sales in pharmacies delayed [in 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).

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.