Cannabis proposal: documented committee decision, May 2026 release

16 votes for, 8 against and 1 abstention on continuing work. A committee decision, not a final vote on a cannabis law in force.

Key facts

  • For continuing work: 16
  • Against: 8
  • Abstention: 1

Key takeaways

  • The reported decision concerns continued work, not adoption of a final law.
  • The 25 recorded votes belong to a committee decision, not a vote by all chamber members.
  • Group shares remain unresolved: no party positions are calculated from the aggregate without a roll call.

Interpretation

A result needs an exact question and a named decision-making body. Otherwise the same numbers might wrongly be presented as approval of market opening. Here the release establishes a majority for continued work. It also describes the mandate to the subcommittee to examine criticism and revise the draft. This procedural step promises nothing to providers or members. The separately reported vote against suspension is a different decision and is not merged with 16 / 8 / 1. A defensible political time series would require original results, bodies, questions and roll-call data for each observation. We therefore describe this individual source finding without forecasting parliamentary groups, chamber majorities or commencement dates.

Limitations

  • One vote is documented here; no twelve-vote total or 2008–2026 average is established.
  • Source and review dates do not make this the latest or only cannabis decision.

Data

Source publishedQuestion voted onDecision-making bodyFor / against / abstention
2026-05-08Continue work on the draft associated with 20.473National Council social security and health committee16 / 8 / 1

Methodology

We retain one committee decision reported in the official release concerning parliamentary initiative 20.473. The 16 votes for, 8 against and 1 abstention concern continuation of work on the proposal. 8 May 2026 is the release publication date; it describes a meeting from 6 to 8 May without a separate date for this vote. The table therefore labels the date as source publication. Chart values are vote counts, not percentages or parliamentary-group shares. The source supplies no individual roll call for this decision. No party averages or multi-year series are inferred. Other votes in the document concern different questions and are not added to this result.

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