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Swiss cannabis activists want to use the momentum of legal cannabis containing CBD in order to achieve the legalisation of the plant’s forbidden variant containing THC. So the new cannabis initiative is underway, 10 years after the No in the last referendum about cannabis. However, it is limping forwards and it desperately needs support!
On the campaign website you can see that over the last nine months 20,800 people have agreed to sign, and have donated around CHF 101,000 to resurrect the cannabis initiative.
Although the text of the initiative was already signed off last spring by the Swiss Federal Chancellery, 100,000 signatures are needed for the initiative to be approved.
The organisers have now postponed the collection of signatures that was due to begin in April, in order to create a broader base for the initiative. Ahead of the referendum, the task is now to bring on board not just the biggest companies in the sector, but also the associations and organisations in the areas of addiction and health research,…
