9 May 2015

During its session on 9 May 2015 the Bundesrat, a legislative body that represents the sixteen Länder (federal states) of Germany at the national level, approved a measure, which reads: “The Bundesrat asks the Federal Government to initiate a legislative procedure to change the narcotics law (Betäubungsmittelgesetz) and the regulations on the prescription of narcotics with the aim to make cannabis extract and cannabis flowers available for standard medical care of pain and palliative patients.”

The Bundestag argued: „Patients, who have received all treatment options according to medical guidelines and whose suffering could be alleviated or improved by the use of cannabis extracts or cannabis flowers according to medical judgement should be allowed access to cannabis preparations by standard medical care. (…)” All currently available possibilities for the treatment with cannabis products “do not ensure an adequate supply, in the case a therapy is indicated according to medical diagnosis and treatment requirements.”

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