Tag: Politics

Herba di Berna takes a look behind the scenes of the global narcotics market

26.03.2024 Iona Knieriemen

Herba di Berna takes a look behind the scenes of the global narcotics market

The legalization of cannabis in Switzerland

24.02.2024 Jenny Strinati

A step into the future In recent decades, the debate about the legalization of cannabis in Switzerland has intensified. The Green Party actively campaigned for legalization 30 years ago. In their position paper, the Greens take a clear stance on what any legalization should look like. Members of the Green Party have been involved in […]

Versand Packete, grün, braun und abstrakte Pflanzen

Higher shipping costs in 2024

25.01.2024 Jenny Strinati

The year 2024 promises a wave of financial changes for Herba di Berna and the entire hemp industry. These changes are due to numerous factors such as rising government levies (VAT), higher insurance costs, price increases for packaging materials, energy and rents. These factors are like an unstoppable tide that presents companies with the challenge […]

Magen-Darm-Harmonie mit Cannabis unterstützen

Cannabis and gastrointestinal tract

11.01.2024 Jenny Strinati

The festive season is a feast of food and drink, from one meal to the next, from cookies to chocolate, mandarins and the festive roast. While we usually enjoy the winter festive season with vacations, celebrations and gluttony, our intestines have to work overtime. Cannabinoids can support our intestines in their daily functions and contribute […]

Legalization in Germany: Is the Bundestag getting down to business?

24.10.2023 Timon Burckhardt

After a long wait, the draft bill for the CanG, the – presumably – future cannabis law in Germany, has made it to the Bundestag. The bill aims to take the first steps toward a legal cannabis market – ideally as early as early 2024. What is in the cannabis law now? Oracles about the […]

Progress in the new regulation of the cannabis market

10.10.2023 Timon Burckhardt

At the end of September 2023, the National Council again expressed its support for the concerns of “PI Siegenthaler”. Parliament has approved an extension of the deadline needed to draft a new cannabis law. If things continue to go smoothly, the new regulation of the cannabis market (also called legalization 😉) could thus become a […]

Partial decriminalization: a regulatory jungle

24.08.2023 Timon Burckhardt

The last few weeks, a new ruling by the Federal Court has been the talk of the town. The highest court ruled that an unpunished amount of cannabis (<10g and exclusively for personal consumption) cannot be seized by the police. This is another step towards the decriminalization of cannabis. In principle, less criminalization of consumers […]

Pilot testing: What’s running where?

28.03.2023 Timon Burckhardt

Since the summer of 2021, it has been clear that pilot trials on the legal use & sale of cannabis will be conducted in Switzerland. Despite the widespread interest, which is reflected among other things in a large media response, our patience is being tried. In Basel, the start of the “WeedCare” pilot trial planned […]

Cannabis in Bangkok – a travelogue

31.01.2023 Timon Burckhardt

We support the work of LegalizeIt! and thank you very much for the interesting article about the legalization implementation in Thailand, which we are kindly allowed to publish in our blog. First-hand information, as close as possible – that’s exactly what we like you to read! Travelogue: Cannabis in Bangkok (Thailand 2022) In early December […]

France: No ban on hemp with low THC content!

Timon Burckhardt

About a year ago, in early 2022, French cannabis legislation was chaotic. At first, unprocessed product was banned even with THC content below 0.3%. Just one month later, however, a court suspended enforcement of this boondoggle. Almost exactly one year after the original decree of 30.12.2021, the French Council of State has now reversed its […]

CBD during the vacations. What is allowed?

24.10.2022 Timon Burckhardt

What products can I take with me on vacation abroad? Anyone who uses CBD products in everyday life will sooner or later come across this question. Since natural CBD products are derived from the hemp plant, which is criminalized in many places, there is a confusing jungle of laws in many countries. However, if the […]

Cannabis in the focus of the public

07.07.2022 Raffael Wuethrich

Media release of IG Hemp, July 5, 2022 As a member of IG Hemp, Herba di Berna reproduces here the latest media release of the association: Discussions about cantonal pilot projects and a report by the UN Office onDrugs and Crime (UNODC) once again demonstrate the urgency ofregulating cannabis in Switzerland. Switzerland’s most important industry […]

New step for legalization

24.06.2022 Timon Burckhardt

The U.S. House of Commons passed the Marijuana Reform Act this spring, which would legalize cannabis nationwide. Things are also moving in Switzerland: In Basel and elsewhere, preparations for pilot tests on the legal sale of cannabis are in full swing. The canton of Solothurn is calling for a carefully crafted new regulation, i.e. legalization, […]

Thc Legalisierung und der Bundesrat

Federal Council approves cannabis pilot projects

17.05.2021 Timon Burckhardt

On March 31, 2021, it became clear that pilot cannabis dispensaries could be approved by the FOPH starting in mid-May. Following the National Council and the Council of States, the Federal Council also approved this amendment to the Narcotics Act, which is intended to provide new insights into health and consumption patterns in the context […]

Cannabis leal in der schweiz züchten

Legal cultivation and simplified dispensing of cannabis medicinal products

31.03.2021 Addrich Mauch

In the final vote of the spring session 2021, the National Council and the Council of States approved business 20.060 of an amendment to the Narcotics Act. This provides that the cultivation and medical prescription of medicinal hemp may be prescribed in the future without an exemption permit from the Federal Office of Public Health […]

CBD-Öl vor EU-Flagge und Richtersymbolik als visuelle Darstellung des EuGH-Urteils, das Cannabidiol nicht als Betäubungsmittel einstuft

All eyes on Brussels

05.11.2020 Addrich Mauch

While on the one hand a lot of educational work is happening around the topic of hemp and cannabinoids, new scientific findings on the benefits of hemp and hemp extracts are being obtained, the EU Commission is currently considering including hemp extracts in general in the narcotics law. Cannabiniol (CBD) as well as any other […]