The city of Zurich’s Association of pharmacists has a Vision. He wants to sell in the future, Cannabis containing the active ingredient THC. For medical purposes, but also for consumption, for enjoyment. Both are still illegal, to change, however, when it comes to the urban pharmacists. “We can’t close their eyes to the reality of the situation”, says Valeria Dora, President of the pharmacy network, Zurich, in NZZ. According to estimates, between Smoking pot 30 and 40 percent of Swiss citizens at least once in your life.
your Vision of the Grass sold in the pharmacies outline the pharmacist in a position paper: Who is of full age, could relate in a pharmacy Cannabis “pharmaceutical grade”. Up to three to five varieties would be offered with the instruction leaflet. The advantages from the point of view of the pharmacist: The professionals could recognize “problematic consumption” and contain it. The goal was to fight with a regulated and tax the black market, so as to reduce the contact to dealers and to hard drugs, writes the NZZ, which is the paper. Pharmacy network-President Dora considered a tax in coffee shops and other specialized stores, such as in the Netherlands for Switzerland, however, as a less goal-oriented. A complete liberalisation, such as in some US States, for the pharmacist but not an issue.
In the United States experienced legal Grass is currently just a Boom. Since more and more States allow the sale for medicinal purposes or even for pleasure, was the trade in order to a multi-billion industry. In Switzerland, the illegal cannabis market is estimated to have an annual turnover of at least CHF 600 million.
experimental article in the pipeline
That the Apothecary rushing forward with this idea, is no coincidence. Liberalization efforts in the area of Cannabis has been around longer, they are currently, but a fairly specific. The city plans to 2020, pilot experiments with scientific support. So that they can then be carried out, it takes a change in the law at the Federal level. The Federal Council has formulated an experimental article and in the consultation sent. The law should allow for the regulated supply of Cannabis, this should only be about points of sale that have trained personnel and in a safe storage is guaranteed. For Example: Pharmacies.
alone, the Zurich-based pharmacist are not aiming for. We are working together with the specialist agencies of the city of Zurich, and there you’ve received with “open arms”, says Dora. “The attitude of the city Council, Andreas Hauri in this question is liberal”, according to a media spokesperson from the Department of health in the NZZ. And more: The political debate was “urgent and overdue”.
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Created: 11.01.2019, 09:10 PM
