[AntiGuv]

"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"

That's triple the intelligence of the U.S.........

[robertpaulsen]

Two things.

First, they're not doing it for any high-minded, intelligent, well-thought-out reason -- their police resources are "too stretched". Probably because they're spending close to a billion dollars (US) per year coddling heroin addicts.

Second, let's not be too quick with the kudos. There is a "strong chance that the government package may be thrown out."