Geneva committee backs legalizing marijuana
Growing and selling marijuana may soon become legal in once staid Geneva
The Local (Switzerland)
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Authorities are considering a radical liberalization of drug laws in the Swiss canton in a bid to undermine the black market in cannabis. "We are agreed about going forward with this. Repression has failed as a policy," Geneva's Health Minister Mauro Poggia told Swiss newspaper Le Temps. "But that does not stop us thinking about going down other avenues." Geneva's cross-party Advisory Commission on Addiction urged the government to seek approval for the reforms from federal health authorities.
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