Federal Act
on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances
(Narcotics Act, NarcA)¹

¹ The fol­low­ing nar­cot­ics may not be cul­tiv­ated, im­por­ted, pro­duced or placed on the mar­ket:³⁷

a.

opi­um for smoking and the residues cre­ated in its pro­duc­tion or use;

b.

di­acetyl­morphine and its salts;

c.

hal­lu­cino­gens such as lys­er­gide (LSD 25);

d.³⁸

nar­cot­ics con­tain­ing an ef­fect­ive con­cen­tra­tion of can­nabin­oids, un­less they are used for med­ic­al pur­poses.³⁹

² ...⁴⁰

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may pro­hib­it the im­port, pro­duc­tion and pla­cing on the mar­ket of fur­ther nar­cot­ics if in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ments pro­hib­it their pro­duc­tion or the most im­port­ant pro­du­cer coun­tries cease their pro­duc­tion.⁴¹

⁴ Any stocks of pro­hib­ited nar­cot­ics must be trans­formed un­der the su­per­vi­sion of the rel­ev­ant can­ton­al au­thor­ity in to a leg­ally-per­mit­ted sub­stance or, if this is not pos­sible, des­troyed.

⁵ Un­less it is pro­hib­ited un­der an in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ment, the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Pub­lic Health (FOPH) may is­sue ex­cep­tion­al li­cences for cul­tiv­at­ing, im­port­ing, pro­du­cing and pla­cing on the mar­ket nar­cot­ics:

a.

in ac­cord­ance with para­graphs 1 and 3, where these nar­cot­ics are needed for sci­entif­ic re­search, the de­vel­op­ment of medi­cin­al products or for re­stric­ted med­ic­al use;

b.

in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 let­ter d, provided these nar­cot­ics are used in sci­entif­ic re­search.⁴²

⁶ For the cul­tiv­a­tion of a nar­cot­ic men­tioned in para­graphs 1 let­ters a–c and 3 that is an act­ive in­gredi­ent in an au­thor­ised medi­cin­al product, an ex­cep­tion­al li­cence is re­quired from the FOPH.⁴³

⁷ For the im­port, pro­duc­tion and pla­cing on the mar­ket of a nar­cot­ic men­tioned in para­graphs 1 let­ters a–c and 3 that is an act­ive in­gredi­ent in an au­thor­ised medi­cin­al product, a li­cence is re­quired from Swiss­med­ic in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 4.⁴⁴

⁸ The FOPH⁴⁵ may grant ex­cep­tion­al li­cences, provided the sub­stances men­tioned in the para­graphs 1 and 3 are used in con­trol meas­ures.⁴⁶