[DWPittelli]

Well, if a country is going to give free heroin to addicts, it seems rather silly to punish people for buying their own marijuana.

[robertpaulsen]

"An estimated 500 000 people-the Swiss population is 7 million-are occasional or regular consumers of cannabis,"

That's double the percentage in the U.S.

[Tall_Texan]

ATTENTION Free Staters! Here's where you should move to...

[Sir Gawain]

"For the sake of our own credibility we cannot allow that alcohol and tobacco, which kill 10000 people a year in Switzerland, are sold with all kinds of marketing wizardry, while consumption of cannabis, a less dangerous product, is a legal offence"

Finally some common sense.

[Wolfie]

In actuality, this legislation only codifies what has already taken place. Cannabis is sold over the counter in any major Swiss city.

[Truth666]

"Assisted Suicide" poster campaign, similar to the recent "Stop Aids" campaign, required to reduce suicide costs of $1.8 billions

[Rodney King]

I already thought it was legal. I lived in Zurich this summer for 10 weeks and in any neighborhood with any sort of nightlife people were smoking it quite openly.

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[Republicus2001]

I bet you can't smoke cigarette's there tho

[KarlInOhio]

Will Swiss Army Knives include roach clips in the future?

[ I'm looking at the suspect pliers on my knife ]

[robertpaulsen]

Hmmm. 1300 heroin addicts, $810,500,000/year, works out to about $625,000/year/addict. Once we implement a program like this in the US, there goes the WOD savings.

And they're considering doing the same for cocaine addicts. Reason? More than two-thirds of Swiss junkies use cocaine as well as heroin.

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