First Cultivation Permit for Medicinal Cannabis in Germany
Final judgement On 6 April 2016, the Third Division of the Federal Administrative Court reached a landmark decision which is of crucial importance to cannabis patients: it issued a permit to a 52-year-old MS patient to grow cannabis at home. More on the legally binding decision and the background to the approval of cannabis cultivation here.
Landmark judgment in highest court
On 6 April 2016, the Third Division of the Federal Administrative Court reached a landmark decision which is of crucial importance to cannabis patients: Although the judgment is an individual decision, the judges have ordered the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) to issue a permit for a 52-year-old MS patient to grow cannabis at home. For the first time in Germany there will therefore be a permit for the cultivation of cannabis as part of, in the official wording, “medically assisted self-therapy with cannabis flowers.”
52 year-old Michael...
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