Spinal cord injuries can result in some of the most damaging and unbearable side effects possible. Injuries in this area of the body often result in a change, either temporary or permanent to normal motor or sensory function.

A fragile, spaghetti-like plethora of nerves surround the spinal cord, all of which are vital to the human body functioning regularly. When these nerves are compromised, pain, spasticity, depression and many other side effects often occur, leaving the victim in constant need for medical treatment.

Help and advice for cannabis users and their entourage

This site helps you in thinking about your cannabis use or that of those around you. You can also inform you about the risks and receive personalized recommendations. Forum, testimonials, test, Coach: so many aids to the point!

 
App Stop-cannabis-ch for Iphone / Android (Free)

This application helps you to quit smoking.
Developed by experts from the University of Geneva, it offers free personalized advice. After defining a profile, you will receive regular follow-up messages, as if a personal trainer accompanied you throughout your stop!

Help and advice for cannabis users and their entourage

This site helps you in thinking about your cannabis use or that of those around you. You can also inform you about the risks and receive personalized recommendations. Forum, testimonials, test, Coach: so many aids to the point!

 
App Stop-cannabis-ch for Iphone / Android (Free)

This application helps you to quit smoking.
Developed by experts from the University of Geneva, it offers free personalized advice. After defining a profile, you will receive regular follow-up messages, as if a personal trainer accompanied you throughout your stop!

The idea of developing an app dedicated to marijuana growing has been thought up by the creators of ilovegrowingmarijuana.com: through that website, many people asked how to get a collection of articles in the form of an eBook, in order to read or consult it when and where they want.

The outlaw botanists who designed the marijuana Americans smoke and the money they didn't make doing it

Since almost everyone interviewed for this story is, or has been, a criminal, almost everyone long ago adopted pseudonyms. Some are no longer criminals, so don’t mind their real names being used. Some are no longer criminals, but still prefer to use their pseudonyms.

From so-called drugs, there is usually only negative to report. The thoroughly existing medical potential of psychoactive substances is therefore often not perceived or further explored. Apart from cannabis currently but also substances such as LSD and Ketamine again get  more attention in medical research. How narrow is the line between drug and drug? Which medical potentials are currently being explored? And what are the risks?

Cannabis on prescription?

The country, always a pioneer in the field of drug policies, says stop the prohibition and send a delegation to Uruguay to study a plan of legalization. "It can be done by us," say experts. So in Geneva, in 2015, they will start testing.

The public prosecutor of St Gallen ordered the detention in custody of two suspects on Wednesday following a shooting at an industrial building in Altstätten earlier this week which led to the discovery of a large cannabis plantation.

Police found and dismantled the plantation after a shootout on Sunday night in which two Swiss men allegedly shot and injured two others, one of which remains in a critical condition.

The plantation, which contained several thousand cannabis plants, was believed to be a professional operation, reports news agency ATS, one of an increasing number in Switzerland.

Last year St Gallen police uncovered some 70 plantations in the canton, against just 17 in 2013.

Switzerland has always been a country which runs on its own accord. Even in the midst of the hype to join the European Union almost two decades ago, the Swiss opted out, proud and confident in making their own way. They’ve continued to do so in many ways, including pioneering drug policies such as the first national drug addiction shelters. Now,they are set to take on one of the new cannabis frontiers, that of the “social club.”