The Global Commission on Drug Policy has issued recommendations on tackling North America's opioid crisis, calling for the immediate expansion of harm reduction services, the decriminalization and regulation of currently illicit drugs and an initiative to allow interested cities to de facto decriminalize as federal debates over drug policy continue. The position paper, to be released on Monday, comes in advance of the final report of the White House opioid commission, led by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, due out in November. [continues 699 words]
Seized cannabis and marijuana is seen during a press conference in Zurich, Switzerland. [photo] Swiss police said they stumbled across a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth, the search engine company's satellite mapping software. Police said the find was part of a bigger investigation that led to the arrest of 16 people and seizure of 1.1 metric tons of marijuana as well as cash and valuables worth 900,000 Swiss francs ($1.1 million). Officers discovered the hemp field in the northeastern canton (state) of Thurgau last year while investigating an alleged drug ring, said the head of Zurich police's specialist narcotics unit Norbert Klossner. [continues 117 words]
In the circles where LSD eventually thrived, the moment of its discovery was more cherished than even the famous intersection of a fine English apple with Isaac Newton's inquiring mind, the comic cosmic instant that gave us gravity. According to legend, Dr. Albert Hofmann, a research chemist at the Sandoz pharmaceutical company, fell from his bicycle in April 1943 on his way home through the streets of Basel, Switzerland, after accidently dosing himself with LSD at the laboratory. The story presented another example of enlightenment as trickster. As a narrative it was very fondly regarded because so many of us imagined a clueless botanist pedaling over the cobblestones with the clockwork Helvetian order dissolving under him. [continues 920 words]
GENEVA -- A pioneering program to give addicts government-authorized heroin has been overwhelmingly approved by Swiss voters. At the same time, they rejected the decriminalization of marijuana in yesterday's referendum. Sixty-eight per cent of voters approved making the heroin program permanent. It has been credited with reducing crime and improving the health and lives of addicts since it began 14 years ago. Only 36.8% of voters favoured the marijuana initiative. Parliament approved the heroin measure in a revision of Switzerland's narcotics law this past March. But conservatives challenged the decision and forced a national referendum under Switzerland's system of direct democracy. [end]
Voters Endorse Drugs-For-Addicts Measure While Rejecting Bid To Decriminalize Marijuana GENEVA-The world's most comprehensive legalized heroin program became permanent yesterday with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who also rejected the decriminalization of marijuana. The heroin program, started in 1994, is offered in 23 centres across Switzerland. It has helped eliminate scenes of large groups of drug users shooting up in parks that marred Swiss cities in the 1980s and 1990s. The plan is credited with reducing crime and improving the health and daily lives of addicts. [continues 203 words]
A pioneering Swiss programme to give addicts government authorised heroin was overwhelmingly approved yesterday by voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalisation of marijuana. Sixty-eight per cent of voters approved making the heroin programme permanent. It has been credited with reducing crime and improving the health and daily lives of addicts since it began 14 years ago. Only 36.8% of voters favoured the marijuana initiative. Olivier Borer, 35, a musician from the northern town of Solothurn, said he welcomed the outcome. "I think it's very important to help these people, but not to facilitate the using of drugs. You can just see in the Netherlands how it's going. People just go there to smoke," Borer said. [continues 274 words]
The Swiss have voted for the government's drugs policy, including the prescription of heroin to addicts, but have rejected a plan to decriminalise cannabis. In a major upset on Sunday, a proposal to tighten legal provisions against paedophile criminals was carried. An early retirement scheme and plans to curb the powers of environmental organisations failed to pass at the ballot box. Sixty-eight per cent of voters approved a plan to enshrine the government's four-pillar drugs policy in law, according to near-final results. [continues 619 words]
A pioneering Swiss programme aimed to curb drug abuse by providing addicts with a clean, safe place to take heroin is expected to be made permanent by voters in a referendum on Sunday. The programme has been criticized by the United States and the U.N. narcotics board, which said it would fuel drug abuse. But governments as far away as Australia are beginning or considering their own systems modeled on the Swiss one, which is credited with reducing crime and improving the health and daily lives of addicts. [continues 387 words]
GENEVA (AP) -- Dr. Daniele Zullino keeps glass bottles full of white powder in a safe in a locked room of his office. Patients show up each day to receive their treatment in small doses handed through a small window. Then they gather around a table to shoot up, part of a pioneering Swiss program to curb drug abuse by providing addicts a clean, safe place to take heroin produced by a government-approved laboratory. The program has been criticized by the United States and the U.N. narcotics board, which said it would fuel drug abuse. But governments as far away as Australia are beginning or considering their own programs modeled on the system, which is credited with reducing crime and improving the health and daily lives of addicts. [continues 379 words]
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss scientist who invented the LSD and became the first person in the world to experience a full-blown acid trip, has died. He was 102. He was working as a chemist in Basel, when he synthesised lysergic acid diethylamide. On April 19, 1943, he took the substance before cycling home. That day has become known among aficionados as "Bicycle Day" as it was while he was riding home that he experienced the most intense symptoms brought on by the drug. [continues 172 words]
His Accidental Experience of 'An Extremely Stimulated Imagination' Caused by the Drug Led to a Lifetime of Experiments and Initiated the Psychedelic Generation. Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD and thereby gave the psychedelic generation the pharmaceutical vehicle to turn on, tune in and drop out, has died. He was 102. Hofmann died Tuesday morning at his home in Basel, Switzerland, of a heart attack, according to Rick Doblin, the head of MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Assn. for Psychedelic Studies. [continues 1448 words]
Swiss Chemist Who Discovered the Psychedelic Compound LSD and Remained Convinced of Its Great Therapeutic Potential On April 16, 1943, while conducting research at the laboratories of the pharmaceutical company Sandoz in Basle, the Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann accidentally ingested some of the substance on which he was working and became the first person to experience an LSD trip. The discovery would earn Hofmann the sobriquet of "father of LSD", and he was a lifelong advocate of the beneficial possibilities of what he called his "problem child". [continues 1513 words]
PARIS -- Albert Hofmann, the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known, died Tuesday at his hilltop home near Basel, Switzerland. He was 102. The cause was a heart attack, said Rick Doblin, founder and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a California-based group that in 2005 republished Dr. Hofmann's 1979 book "LSD: My Problem Child." Dr. Hofmann first synthesized the compound lysergic acid diethylamide in 1938 but did not discover its psychopharmacological effects until five years later, when he accidentally ingested the substance that became known to the 1960s counterculture as acid. [continues 989 words]
Albert Hofmann, 102, a Swiss chemist and accidental father of LSD who came to view the much-vilified and abused hallucinogen he discovered in 1938 as his "problem child," died April 29 at his home in Burg, a village near Basel, Switzerland, after a heart attack. His death was confirmed by Rick Doblin, the Boston-based founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a nonprofit pharmaceutical company developing LSD and other psychedelics for prescription medicines. Lysergic acid diethylamide, thousands of times stronger than mescaline, can give its user an experience often described as psychedelic -- a kaleidoscopic twirling of the mind pulsating with color and movement. [continues 1303 words]
Youths Found To Have Better Relations With Peers And Good Grades (Reuters) - A study of more than 5,000 youngsters in Switzerland has found those who smoked marijuana do as well or better in some areas as those who don't, researchers said yesterday. But the same was not true for those who used both tobacco and marijuana, who tended to be heavier users of the drug, said the report from J.C. Suris and colleagues at the University of Lausanne. [continues 300 words]
Swiss teenagers who sometimes smoke marijuana don't appear to have higher rates of "psychosocial problems" than those who abstain, according to a study published today in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. "Those who use cannabis sometimes do better than we think," J.C. Suris, the study's author, said in an interview. Light users of marijuana "don't have great additional problems. They are kids who function well." There's no question that heavy use of marijuana does hurt, said Suris, who, along with colleagues at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, conducted surveys of 5,263 Swiss students in 2002. [continues 462 words]
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) has defended the continued inclusion of cannabis on its prohibited list of substances following criticism that the ban is placing unnecessary strain on sporting federations. IAAF council member and Spanish athletics federation president Jose Maria Odriozola raised concern about the cannabis ban on Sunday during a round table discussion on "borderline issues" at an international anti-doping symposium organised by the world athletics governing body. According to Odriozola, federations are "wasting considerable time and money, dealing with what is essentially a recreational non-performance-enhancing drug." [continues 314 words]
Switzerland's liberal policy of offering heroin addicts substitute drugs appears to be paying off, according to new research. The number of new heroin users in Zurich has declined by 82 per cent since the policy of prescribing addicts with other opiates was introduced. In Switzerland it is common for addicts to be given substitution treatment with two other opiates, methadone or buprenorphine. They are also provided with rooms - known as "shooting galleries" - where they can inject prescribed liquid heroin, and have easy access to needle exchanges. [continues 206 words]
Free Drugs, Needles Alter Thinking Of Youth ZURICH -- A state's heroin policy, which includes providing alternative narcotics and needle-exchange programs, has led to fewer users as young people start to consider the substance a "loser drug," says a study outlined in the British medical journal Lancet. The number of new heroin users in the Swiss state of Zurich rose more than 10 times from 1975 to 1990 before falling 82 per cent by 2002, researchers at the Psychiatric University Hospital in Zurich said in the study. The government introduced its new, more liberal, policy in 1991. [continues 266 words]
BASEL, Switzerland -- When Kevin Herbert has a particularly intractable programming problem, or finds himself pondering a big career decision, he deploys a powerful mind expanding tool -- LSD-25. "It must be changing something about the internal communication in my brain. Whatever my inner process is that lets me solve problems, it works differently, or maybe different parts of my brain are used, " said Herbert, 42, an early employee of Cisco Systems who says he solved his toughest technical problems while tripping to drum solos by the Grateful Dead -- who were among the many artists inspired by LSD. [continues 1554 words]
LSD is an unlikely subject for a 100th birthday party. Yet the Swiss chemist who discovered the mind-altering drug and was its first human guinea pig is celebrating his centenary today, in good health and with plans to attend an international seminar on the hallucinogenic. "I had wonderful visions," Albert Hofmann said in Geneva, recalling his first accidental consumption of the drug. "I sat down at home on the divan and started to dream," he said. "What I was thinking appeared in colours and in pictures. It lasted for a couple of hours and then it disappeared." For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended his invention. "I produced the substance as a medicine," he said. "It's not my fault if people abused it." [end]
BURG, Switzerland - Albert Hofmann, the father of LSD, walked slowly across the small corner office of his modernist home on a grassy Alpine hilltop here, hoping to show a visitor the vista that sweeps before him on clear days. But outside there was only a white blanket of fog hanging just beyond the crest of the hill. He picked up a photograph of the view on his desk instead, left there perhaps to convince visitors of what really lies beyond the window. [continues 968 words]
BURG, Switzerland - ALBERT Hofmann, the father of LSD, walked slowly across the small corner office of his modernist home on a grassy Alpine hilltop here, hoping to show a visitor the vista that sweeps before him on clear days. But outside there was only a white blanket of fog hanging just beyond the crest of the hill. He picked up a photograph of the view on his desk instead, left there perhaps to convince visitors of what really lies beyond the windowpane. [continues 1140 words]
Scientist Calls Drug 'Medicine for the Soul' BURG, Switzerland -- Albert Hofmann, the father of LSD, walked slowly across the small corner office of his modernist home on a grassy Alpine hilltop here, hoping to show a visitor the vista that sweeps before him on clear days. But outside there was only a white blanket of fog. He picked up a photograph of the view on his desk instead, left there perhaps to convince visitors of what really lies beyond the window. [continues 819 words]
Low doses of the main active ingredient in marijuana slowed the progression of hardening of the arteries in mice, suggesting a hint for developing a new therapy in people. Experts stressed that the finding does not mean people should smoke marijuana in hopes of getting the same benefit. "To extrapolate this to, 'A joint a day will keep the doctor away,' I think is premature," said Dr. Peter Libby, chief of cardiovascular medicine at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. [continues 380 words]
The Active Ingredient in Cannabis Protects Arteries Against Harmful Changes That Lead to Strokes and Heart Attacks, New Research Suggests THE active ingredient in cannabis protects arteries against harmful changes that lead to strokes and heart attacks, new research suggests. THC, or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, is known to affect the brain and make cannabis-users "high". The new research shows that it also has an influence on blood vessels. A study of mice revealed that the compound blocks the process of inflammation, which is largely responsible for the narrowing of arteries. [continues 418 words]
The active ingredient of cannabis can prevent blood vessels from becoming blocked by atherosclerosis, the inflammation that is the primary cause of heart disease and stroke. The disease is halted when mice are given low doses of the substance, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, THC, according to a study published today in the journal Nature by Prof Francois Mach and colleagues at the Geneva University Hospital. Atherosclerosis occurs when the build-up of immune cells in blood vessels causes narrowing of the arteries. THC, seems to prevents the recruitment of immune cells called leukocytes by binding to proteins called CB2 receptors on the surface of cells in the vessels. [continues 118 words]
Swiss teenagers smoke more cannabis than their peers in more than 30 other European countries, according to a survey. The findings, published on Thursday, revealed that one in three Swiss 15-year-olds has lit up a joint within the past year. [end]
Nearly a million techno music fans have attended Zurich's 13th annual Street Parade, almost breaking last year's record crowd numbers. Over 30 "love mobiles" wound their way through the city streets, pumping out electronic music for mostly young spectators. This year, groups from Russia, Portugal, the Netherlands, Italy and Belgium, as well as Switzerland and Germany were manning the love mobiles. Besides exotic rhythms, this year's parade also offered spectators a chance for the first time to quench their thirst with alcohol. [continues 411 words]
A nationwide clampdown on shops selling cannabis risks driving pot smokers into the arms of dealers pushing hard drugs, warn health officials. They say drug dealers could be the main beneficiaries of parliament's decision not to decriminalise cannabis. In many parts of Switzerland, police have cracked down on hemp shops selling cannabis and related products. In Ticino, of the 75 outlets operating in 2002, only two remained in business in 2003. "We are concerned about it, because in the shops we knew they could buy cannabis and products made with cannabis, and that was all," said Sandra Meier, spokeswoman for the Federal Health Office. [continues 378 words]
Smoking a joint will remain illegal in Switzerland after parliament threw out government proposals to decriminalise cannabis. The House of Representatives refused by 102 votes to 92 to debate amendments to the drug law -- the second time it has dismissed the proposal. It was the fourth attempt since December 2001 to vote on a government proposal aimed at decriminalising the production and consumption of cannabis for personal use. The other parliamentary chamber, the Senate, has twice come out in favour of a more liberal drugs policy. [continues 525 words]
The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has sharply criticised aspects of Switzerland's drugs policy. The INCB said plans to decriminalise cannabis and the provision of injection rooms for heroin addicts were steps in the wrong direction. The criticism was contained in the INCB's annual report, which monitors the ways in which countries around the world are upholding international conventions on drugs control. The most important of these, the convention of 1961, says drugs should be used for medical and scientific purposes only. [continues 611 words]
GENEVA -- Philippe, 36, works for that abiding symbol of Swiss respectability -- a bank. He also likes to relax with a joint of marijuana after work. Until very recently, it looked as though his habit might soon cease to be a crime. But then Parliament killed government-backed legislation that would have decriminalized cannabis consumption. Last month's narrow 96-89 vote was ironic, because it leaves Switzerland -- a pioneer in drug liberalization -- on the "no" side in a gradual European trend toward softening marijuana laws. [continues 297 words]
GENEVA - Philippe, 36, works for that abiding symbol of Swiss respectability - a bank. He also likes to relax with a joint of marijuana after work. Until very recently it looked as though his habit might soon cease to be a crime. But then Parliament killed government-backed legislation that would have decriminalized cannabis consumption. Last month's narrow 96-89 vote was ironic, because it leaves Switzerland - a pioneer in drug liberalization - on the "no" side in a gradual European trend toward softening the marijuana laws. [continues 742 words]
In what would have been considered a surprise move up until recent weeks, the Swiss House of Representatives refused to pass a government-sponsored drug bill that would have legalized marijuana consumption and sales and set up a permanent framework for legally prescribed heroin. On September 25, the Swiss parliament's lower house voted 96-89 to take no action on the bill after an emotional debate. The bill will now go back to parliament's upper chamber, the Council of State, which approved it in December 2001 (http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/177/swissdecrim.shtml). The Council of State can revise the bill or simply send it back to the House for reconsideration in a future session -- after the pending elections, which some blame for making it more difficult to pass the bill. [continues 802 words]
GENEVA -- Philippe, 36, works for that abiding symbol of Swiss respectability - a bank. He also likes to relax with a joint of marijuana after work. Until very recently it looked as though his habit might soon cease to be a crime. But then Parliament killed government-backed legislation that would have decriminalized cannabis consumption. Last month's narrow 96-89 vote was ironic, because it leaves Switzerland - a pioneer in drug liberalization - on the "no" side in a gradual European trend toward softening the marijuana laws. [continues 742 words]
BERN, Switzerland -- Ignoring the appeals of its health minister, the Swiss parliament Thursday blocked government moves to decriminalize cannabis and put state prescription of heroin on a permanent legal footing. After an emotional debate, the National Council voted 96-89 to take no action on the government's proposed narcotics law revision. This means the legislation will be kicked back to the Council of States, the upper house, which approved it in December 2001. Plans to decriminalize consumption and, under certain conditions, production and sale of cannabis - which in Switzerland refers to marijuana and other soft drugs - lay at the heart of the legislation. [continues 337 words]
Government plans to decriminalise dope smoking have been thrown out by the House of Representatives. The Senate had already approved legislation that would allow possession and production of cannabis for personal use, as well as limited trade in the drug. The bill will now have to go back to the Senate. The proposal, which would have left Switzerland with one of the most liberal policies on cannabis in Europe, has aroused passions on both sides of the debate. Luzi Stamm, a Swiss People's Party parliamentarian, told swissinfo that even if it makes it through parliament, Swiss voters should have the final decision on the matter. [continues 326 words]
Opponents of moves to decriminalise cannabis have scored a victory, with the House of Representatives throwing out the government's proposals. But the Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Addiction told swissinfo the vote exposed a serious lack of courage. On Thursday, the House of Representatives rejected legislation that would have allowed possession and production of cannabis for personal use, as well as limited trade in the drug. The bill, which had already been approved by the Senate, would have resulted in Switzerland having one of the most liberal policies on cannabis in Europe. It won the support of those who believed it was time to bring legislation in line with reality. [continues 563 words]
James started smoking cannabis when he was 12, insisting that it was "normal" among all his friends. Now 14, he's growing his own marijuana plants - his mother discovered them by the gladioli - and has promised to work for better school grades if he's allowed to keep them. "What can I do?" agonizes his mother, Liz. "If I let him grow it at least he will have his own supply. If he has to go and buy it, then he risks meeting older people selling Ecstasy and other nasty pills. And if I don't let him have any money, he will find ways of getting some," she frets, asking that the family name not be used. [continues 439 words]
Alcohol And Tobacco Pose Far Greater Danger, Way Advocates Of Cannabis Legalisation The Swiss government, which already has one of the most liberal drug policies in the world, wants to decriminalise consumption of cannabis and put state provision of heroin to addicts on a permanent legal footing. The ruling four-party coalition hopes the proposed revision of its drug law will close loopholes and establish a constitutional basis for Switzerland's four-pillar policy of repression, prevention, treatment, and harm reduction--including heroin prescription--which is widely credited with bringing down the mortality rate, crime, and deprivation associated with severe addiction. [continues 561 words]
ZURICH (Reuters) - Angry parents protested outside the Swiss parliament on Monday over government plans to decriminalize cannabis - - a step they say would make Switzerland a Mecca for dope smokers. The demonstration organized by the Swiss Association of Parents against Drugs was timed to pre-empt a debate in the lower house on Thursday on relaxing the laws on cannabis use. Parliament's upper house has already approved the proposals. Despite Switzerland's staid reputation, it is not unusual to see people smoking joints in parks, clubs or on ski lifts. The government has proposed a Dutch-style decriminalization to bring laws in line with the widespread social acceptance of the drug. [continues 328 words]
ZURICH (Reuters) - LSD, the hallucinogenic drug that launched a million trips for hippies, was discovered 60 years ago when a Swiss chemist accidentally inhaled a substance that made his bike ride home something special. Albert Hofmann was actually trying to develop stimulants for the circulatory system in his Sandoz AG lab on April 16, 1943 when he mixed up a batch of LSD from ergot, a fungus that grows on rye. Instead, he created one of the most powerful agents ever to change perceptions of reality, an icon of the 1960s Flower Power movement and the drug of choice for a generation of musicians and writers who rode the psychedelic wave. [continues 268 words]
Lawmakers have voted to extend Switzerland's pioneering programme to provide heroin to severely addicted people. The National Council voted 110-42 to extend the programme until the end of 2009, rejecting an attempt by right-of-centre parties to end it. The Swiss Government maintains the heroin programme brings health gains and reduces crime and death associated with the drug scene. Some 1300 drug addicts, averaging about 33 years in age, benefit from the legal prescription of heroin under medical control. Switzerland's experiment with drug distribution began in 1994 with the first government-authorised distribution of heroin, morphine and methadone in the world. [end]
SWITZERLAND'S pioneering programme to provide heroin to severely addicted people has received a boost after lawmakers moved to extend it for five more years. The National Council, the lower house of parliament, rejected an attempt by right-of-centre parties to stop the programme and voted to prolong it until the end of 2009. The move comes in spite of criticism last month from the United Nations' International Narcotics Control Board, which denounced such programmes in its annual report. [end]
ZURICH - Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell stood in a narrow tiled room here and watched heroin addicts "cranking" their fixes. And Campbell said he's convinced he's on the right track when it comes to using safe injection sites to help clean up the Downtown Eastside's drug problems. "It confirmed everything I read with regards to reduction of deaths, of HIV, of crime and the whole gamut," Campbell told The Province last night. Campbell is in Switzerland to deliver Vancouver's 2010 Winter Olympic bid book to the international Olympic Committee in Lausanne tomorrow. [continues 310 words]
Larry Campbell Believes It's An Option When Methadone And Abstinence Fail ZURICH -- Mayor Larry Campbell wants Vancouver to copy a controversial but successful Swiss program of prescribing heroin to hard-core addicts. In fact, if he had his way, they'd get cocaine prescriptions too. When social workers and drug addiction counsellors talk about the model for treating the hardest of hard-core addicts, for whom abstinence or methadone programs do not work, they all look to Switzerland for advice. That's because for the last eight years the country has operated a prescription heroin program with relative success. [continues 1180 words]
MOUTIER, Switzerland - Three U.S. gymnasts were given "severe warnings" after testing positive for marijuana, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) said Wednesday. The three - who were not identified - tested positive following an unannounced, out-of-competition test in January, FIG said. "In the event of subsequent offenses, these gymnasts could be subject to a suspension of up to two years. Gymnasts, be warned," the federation said. FIG also announced that a second test of a blood sample given by rhythmic gymnast Irina Tchachina of Russia had proved positive for the substance furosemide. The tests were carried out during the world championships in Madrid, Spain, last October. [continues 104 words]
Switzerland, Which Once Had The Highest Rates Of Heroin Addiction And Hiv In Europe, Practises A Radical Policy Of Harm Reduction For Its Drug Addicts. Imogen Foulkes Reports From Zurich. The Platzspitz park in Zurich is an oasis of calm greenery in the heart of the city. But 10 years ago, it was better known as needle park. Hundreds of addicts came here to buy heroin, and inject it openly. It was a horrifying spectacle, and, 10 years ago this week, Swiss police drove the addicts out of needle park. [continues 603 words]
The Senate Has Approved A Government Proposal To Allow The Consumption Of Cannabis. Pending approval by the House of Representatives, the production and trade in hashish and marijuana could also become legal under certain conditions. The amended law, which was accepted by 25 votes and no opposition in the Senate, is aimed at catching up with present-day reality. More than 700,000 people between the age of 15 and 30 have smoked cannabis at least once in their lives. While the consumption of hashish and marijuana would be legalised, the cultivation and sale of cannabis would only be allowed under certain conditions. [continues 299 words]
Inside Switzerland
