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Zurich calls for study on legalizing marijuana [08-01-13] The Swiss city of Zurich's parliament voted to call on the government to commission a national study on legalizing marijuana, local media said. T...
Prevalence of daily cannabis use in the European Union and Norway [15-11-12] This report brings together, for the first time in Europe, an integrated overview of the prevalence of intensive cannabis use, defined as daily or a...
Governing The Global Drug Wars [23-10-12] Since 1909 the international community has worked to eradicate the abuse of narcotics. A century on, the efforts are widely acknowledged to have fa...
Cannabis consumption to be liberalised [20-09-12] Despite dogged opposition by conservatives, parliament has approved a proposal to impose a fine on consumers of small amounts of cannabis instead of o...
Switzerland’s cocaine hot spots rival Amsterdam [17-08-12] A recent study that found cocaine use in big Swiss cities is among the highest in Europe comes as no surprise to experts, who say it is easy to find a...
Experts debate what to do about cannabis [22-07-12] Should pot be outlawed, controlled, or just legalised? For anti-addiction experts, regulating consumption would counter a drug market associated wit...
Dope smokers face fines but no court procedure [05-06-12] The Swiss Parliament has agreed in principle to impose a fine on consumers of small amounts of cannabis instead of opening a mandatory criminal proc...
New heroin-assisted treatment [01-04-12] The prescription of substitution drugs, such as methadone and buprenorphine, has become a mainstream, first-line treatment for opioid dependence, with...
Time for a truce in the war against drugs? [19-03-12] Arguing that a drug-free society is unattainable, a commission of global figures – including former Swiss minister Ruth Dreifuss – are promoting a r...
Bid to have pot smokers fined not prosecuted [07-03-12] Parliament has launched a new attempt to decriminalise the consumption of cannabis, four years after voters rejected a proposal for the full legalisat...
Needle Park remembered [02-02-12] The Platzspitz or “Needle Park” in Zürich was one of the world’s most notorious open drug scenes, attracting users from all over Europe. After its ...
Swiss cannabis smokers will be allowed to grow four marijuana plants each [17-11-11] Cannabis smokers in Switzerland will soon be allowed to grow up to four marijuana plants each at home to stop them buying drugs on the black market. ...
What the World Can Learn from Switzerland’s Drug Policy Shift [25-10-10] This short film by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU), a grantee of the Open Society Global Drug Policy Program, outlines how the country s...
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