The Bureaucracy German Cannabis Patients Face Is as Annoying as the Pain
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On July 22nd, an administrative court in Cologne ruled that three patients, who are currently being prescribed medicinal marijuana could potentially grow their medicine themselves. A gram of legally-imported, medical marijuana from the Netherlands costs between 15 and 20 euros in Germany. It isn’t covered by health insurance and so for most patients, in spite of their special prescription, the price is exorbitant.
The judge ruled that a patient in dire need should fundamentally not be refused the opportunity to grow cannabis, as a last resort. One of the conditions of the ruling was that the patient's apartment had to be extra secure, to prevent access by third parties. Two out of five plaintiffs weren’t able to offer satisfactory proof of the stipulated security measures and so their suits were dismissed.
Günther Weiglein is one of the three victorious cannabis patients. Weiglein suffers from chronic pain after getting into a motorcycle accident that wasn’t his fault. He has been successfully treating his pain with cannabis for years.
I met Günther to chat about the circumstances of his case.
