Cannabis on Lidl shelves in Switzerland

The product is offered as an alternative to rolling tobacco, The Guardian wrote on Thursday.

The sale of cannabis is legal in Switzerland since 2011, when a law was passed permmitting people of legal age to purchase and use cannabis as long as it contained less than 1 percent of THC, the main psychoactive constituent of the plant.

The product’s distributer is the Swiss-based company The Botanicals, which grows cannabis in semi-automatic greenhouses and indoors.

“The manufacturer relies on sustainable agriculture and refrains entirely from adding chemical, synthetic or genetically modified substances,” Lidl said.