Published on January 10, 2025 at 9:10 p.m. / Modified on January 10, 2025 at 9:11 p.m.
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In the 1990s, open drug scenes, notably those at Platzspitz and Letten in Zurich, received worldwide media coverage. Thirty years later, the fear of reliving such a situation – and its share of Dantesque images – resurfaces. Last June, the Federal Commission for Addiction Issues (CFANT) launched an urgent call for measures to be taken to combat crack cocaine, a drug whose consumption is increasing exponentially. It is in this context that a collective work is published which retraces more than fifty years of federal policy in this area: Switzerland and drugs, in which Frank Zobel pleads for “a peace with drugs”.
In the 20th century, it was not only open scenes that were noticed. The response from the Swiss authorities is just as much. In 1993, Federal Councilor Ruth Dreifuss visited Letten before implementing the four-pillar policy (prevention, therapy, risk reduction and repression). In quick succession, in 1997 and 1998, the people swept aside two initiatives by more than 70%, one very repressive (“Drug-Free Youth”) and the other very open (“Droleg”). This reinforces the Federal Council’s idea of relying on an innovative middle path.
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