The Switzerland is riding the crest of legalization in Europe, with trials already started in several cities, such as Basel, Geneva and Lausanne. But it's a Zurich, where cannabis sales will start from next May 2nd, which will involve the greatest number of people, 7,500.
Legalization in Zurich: the 7500-person project
Approx 1.4 million of Swiss francs. This is the cost of the Zurich experiment. This is confirmed Paul-Lukas Good, President of Swiss Cannabis Research: the association that will have to analyze the impact of legalization on citizens.
Compared to pilot program launched last year However, which involved a total of just over 2 thousand participants, the new project involves the creation of three groups of 2500 people.
Three groups of which only two they will be able to obtain cannabis legally, while the third party will have to obtain supplies through the black market. So as to have useful data for the final comparison.
There are already more than 3 thousand people on the waiting list to take part in the project, which, how reported by newspapers, will guarantee three types of cannabis with a THC content of 6, 9 and 15%.
Products that will initially only be purchasable in specialized shops and pharmacies of Zurich, Winterthur, Schlieren and Horgen. To then also expand the sale to Adliswil, Wädenswil and Uster.
Meanwhile, as the project in the largest city in the country prepares to start, the first ones arrive positive data from Lausanne, which sold 4.5kg of cannabis in the first month and caused the black market to drop by 5%.
| For further information: "Lausanne one month after legalization, the black market declines"
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