Our interest: THC

Many people use THC containing products medicinally or recreationally. But hash and weed are still illegal. Therefore, THC users face a variety of problems. We, the Legalize it! association, help people who use THC products with legal questions. For this purpose we offer personal consultations and written information.

We follow the political development surrounding hemp in Switzerland and publish our evaluations of it. Ultimately, we want to achieve the complete legalization of hemp - even if the path there remains long.

Our main topics can be reached via the six headings in the navigation at the top of the page (or in the hamburger menu on your cell phone). The quick navigation leads to the respective sub-topics of a main topic (here to the latest news from our association, the prosecution and politics). Below you will find all current information from the Legalize it! association.

News

11.11.2025 – Companies and associations

We list company members on our company list: both here electronically and in our magazine Legalize it! on paper. We are happy to offer exchange membership to associations.

Now the gift-giving season is upon us. We ask you to consider companies that support us at first!

03.11.2025 – Our statements on the CanPG

We have uploaded our consultation response, which concludes the first part of the political process for us.

You can find our detailed response in the original table, the summary of our amendment requests and our short version at hanflegal.ch/canpg.

28.10.2025 – Event on the CanPG

We have now read, clarified and discussed a great deal and drafted our major consultation response and a short statement. To conclude this process, we are organizing an information afternoon for our members: we will present the Cannabis Products Act (CanPG) and answer questions.

Event on the draft Cannabis Products Act: Saturday, November 29, 2 to 6 p.m.

Participation is possible on site or via our online tool. If you are interested, please register. Our topics: Consumption and self-sufficiency, cultivation and production, sale and incentive tax, further schedule

03.10.2025 => Fall break office October 6 to 26

The office will be on vacation from October 6 to 26. During this time, we will only be available by telephone on Fridays in the afternoon. Outside of these times, the best way to reach us is by e-mail.

From October 27, the office will be available again as usual (Mon, Tue & Fri, preferably in the afternoon).

We wish you all happy fall days!

29.09.2025 – Deadline extended until 2027

The consultation on the Cannabis Products Act is currently underway, but the deadline for dealing with the 20.473 issue would actually expire at the end of September 2025. On September 26, the National Council has now extended the deadline, leaving time until September 2027.

22.09.2025 – Paying without guilt

Today an extremely special story from road traffic. It shows that even if you don't consume anything, you still have to pay high costs if the police have suspicions: A driver is checked, all tests are negative, medical examination positive, but costs of around 1,500 francs and the legal expenses insurance doesn't really want to take action…

But read for yourself: Road traffic: Paying without guilt. A really unpleasant story!

16.09.2025 – Initial conclusion

Last Saturday, we discussed the draft Cannabis Products Act from 12 noon to 7 pm.

The provisions on consumption are pretty good: consumption is free, possession and cultivation are legal with limits. However, the maximum of three plants and cultivation only in one's own home is restrictive.

Commercial cultivation and production is possible with a permit, as is already the case today for pilot projects. The first big catch is the sale: this will only be possible with a license, which is very restrictive. A company receives a permit if it meets the conditions. A license, on the other hand, can be refused even if the conditions are met.

The biggest problem, however, is the level of the incentive tax: this is determined and adjusted by the Federal Council in an ordinance. The amount is therefore not laid down in the law. However, there is an illustrative table in the report that contains such high rates that a gram of weed or hash with 20 % THC would cost over 20 francs. This is hardly a serious threat to the black market (and, incomprehensibly, this goal is not mentioned anywhere in the law).

We are now working on our consultation response in detail until the end of September.

09.09.2025 – Consultation documents

The draft bill for a Cannabis Products Act already comprises a hefty 47 pages. Even if page 47 is empty (to relax, so to speak), it's still quite a chunk: the draft contains 92 articles, plus amendments to other laws. The explanatory report comprises 182 pages, plus a few pages of bibliography. That also takes hours!

Is it really that complicated with hemp? Not really. But the draft wants a lot of control, so it regulates the whole thing very meticulously.

Now some activists have read the texts and discussed them in advance. This Saturday, September 13, we will discuss the whole thing open-ended from 12 noon. We're looking forward to hearing what the various campaigners think!

Note: September 15 is the Knabenschiessen in Zurich, so our office will be closed for the holiday.

02.09.2025 – Magazine Legalize it! No. 107 has been published & No. 106 is online

Our members are currently receiving the latest issue 107 of our magazine Legalize it!
The fall issue contains a political update on the start of the consultation process for the Cannabis Products Act, a second look at the 2024 prosecution figures in relation to the hash/weed ratio and age distribution and finally an article on the digitization of our paper archive.
We will make the complete magazine available as a PDF from December.
Become a member so that you are always up to date (e.g. also by e-mail) – you make our activities possible and support the association. Legalize it!

We have also published another issue of our magazine Legalize it! as PDF. The Issue 106 is now available for download both as a whole and as individual articles in the Politics, Justice and Scene sections. The current issue (#107) is still reserved for our members.

29.08.2025 – Consultation on the Cannabis Products Act

The documents have now been published. The following documents are available to read (in German, French is also available):

Draft Cannabis Products Act

Explanatory report

The consultation homepage contains links to further documents

There are currently no drafts of the ordinances that would contain important clarifications.
Everyone should read the texts as quickly as possible and give feedback if they are interested. What do you think is good, what is bad? In which direction should our consultation response go?

26.08.2025 – Current documents on the criminal prosecution

Many people cannot imagine being involved in criminal proceedings for THC. Most of the time, everything goes well: be it consumption, sale, driving… However, well over 10,000 people are involved in such criminal proceedings for hemp every year. We have posted some current documents from 2025 that show how such criminal proceedings can end.

We are always interested in documents (summary penalty orders, decrees, protocols, investigations and experience reports). Because the law is one thing, but the actual implementation can only be seen in the sentencing orders issued by the public prosecutor's offices. You are welcome to email them to us, bring them to us or send them to us via WhatsApp or Threema (see the information in the footer of this page).

18.08.2025 – Two years of Hanfstübli

On August 22, 2023, we started selling cannabis to our study participants. In the past two years, we have sold over 32 kilograms of different varieties weed and hash - guaranteed clean (laboratory-tested) and from Swiss organic cultivation!

Our picture shows the strains currently available. We now have over 130 members and can take on a few more people (from the city of Zurich). The trial will run until at least October 2026, with the aim of extending it for a further two years.

We report on our findings on an ongoing basis in the magazine Legalize it!, most recently in Magazin Legalize it!, zuletzt in issue 104 (Winter 24/25). For registration and further information: Hanfstübli

12.08.2025 – Our new meeting room

Since the end of 2024, we have been able to rent a meeting room right next door to our office space in an open-plan office. After a few purchases (computer, projector, table, chairs, coffee machine and, most recently, a fan to combat the summer heat), it is now almost fully equipped.

This dedicated room is very well suited for legal consultations, political meetings, discussions with the media, quiet reflection and vaporizer consultations. We can also connect participants there online, for which we have a special device with a microphone and 360-degree camera. In recent months, Fabian has also digitized our archive there (over 8,000 documents).

We are very happy about these new possibilities and thank the Hanfstübli for taking over the rent!

30.07.2025 – Parliamentary initiative: start of the consultation process

On July 3-4, the National Council's Social Security and Health Committee (SSHC-N) once again discussed the draft for a new Cannabis Products Act (business 20.473). It has now completed its work and the consultation process is due to begin at the end of August.

It is asking the National Council to extend the deadline for dealing with the matter by a further two years (press release). We will post the links for the PDFs on our hanflegal.ch website as soon as we know them.

Our policy group will meet in both August and September to begin formulating our consultation response.

Become a member and help shape the future of Swiss cannabis policy!

We wish everyone a great rest of the summer!

26.06.2025 – Open letter to the SSHC

Together with MedCan, we have sent an open Letter to the Commission for Social Security and Health of the National Council(SSHC-N).

We are pleased about the growing cooperation between MedCan and Legalize it! and hope that the committee will pass a workable bill at the end of next week. We are all very excited!

13.05.2025 – Digitization of our archive

This year, we are digitizing our archive, which mainly contains political and legal information. The archive dates back to the 1990s and contains several dozen bulging folders. Fabian has been scanning everything for a few weeks now. The digital archive will then be more accessible and storage will take up much less space.

06.05.2025 – Pilot project also in Aargau!

A cannabis pilot project should also be set up in Aargau. This is the demand of a petition by the Young Liberals: Cannabis Pilotprojekt jetzt! We hope you will sign the petition and that it will meet with a positive response.

It's quite extraordinary that a large proportion of the cannabis for the pilot projects is grown in Aargau, but no such project is planned there.

13.04.2025 – Narcotics statistics 2024: Preview

The Federal Statistical Office (FSO ) had already published the narcotics statistics (BMS) for 2024 at the end of March. In the meantime, we have been able to update our documents and in Legalize it! No. 106 we will publish a first article with these figures. As has been the case for years, this will be a general overview with initial estimates. A more specific analysis of, for example, the differences in the prosecution of weed and hashish is planned for the fall (LI107).
But this much can already be revealed at this point: The figures have fallen by around three quarters since the highs in 2015 – but there were still just under 15,000 criminal offenses reported in Switzerland in 2024! And this is without the figures from the fixed penalties published by the FSO only up to 2021. This means that 40 cannabis-related offenses are still reported every day in this country! The future will show how far these figures will fall before the trough or legalization is reached.

Become a member and stay up to date – also with regard to repression and how to avoid it!

You can find the archive of all contributions in the section Association.