It's about protecting health

About 56 tons of cannabis are consumed illegally in Switzerland every year. This shows that bans don’t completely stop people from using it. Plus, bans come with downsides. When cannabis is sold on the black market, there’s no way to check for harmful contaminants like cutting agents or pesticides, or to know the THC content. So you never really know what you’re getting. Would you drink a beer without knowing if it’s 4% or 14% alcohol?

Cannabis use is a reality. The psychoactive substance is far from harmless. If you use it a lot and over a long period, it can lead to mental, social, and physical problems. That’s why it’s worth thinking about how to make cannabis use less risky and how we can keep the negative effects on society as low as possible.

More and more countries are legalizing cannabis. Switzerland is also asking how a regulated approach to cannabis should look. How much regulation is needed? How can we make sure people have safe, controlled access to products without encouraging more use? What THC levels and ways of using cannabis should be allowed? What can we learn from how alcohol and tobacco are regulated? What alternatives to commercial cannabis sales make sense?

Using legal CBD products like CBD weed, CBD flowers, CBD hash, or CBD oil comes with way fewer risks than using illegal cannabis from the black market.

Pilot projects approved in the cities of Zurich, Basel, Lausanne, Geneva, Liestal, Bern, Biel, and Lucerne are aiming to answer exactly these questions. They’ll show how controlled access to cannabis affects use, buying habits, and users’ health, and which measures are accepted. This is an important step to make the legalization debate more objective and to base any possible cannabis law, as demanded by a parliamentary initiative, on scientific evidence. This is a unique opportunity! Let’s make the most of it.

If you can’t take part in one of the pilot projects because of where you live, you can buy CBD flowers, CBD hash, or other CBD products in the online shop from Greenpassion.

Source: Spectra, Issue No. 139, Dec. 2023: Cannabis policy – what’s next?