German Socialist made it a crime to grow your own and forced the People to buy from State stores, this is what California socialists are trying to do and if they win on the November ballot you'll soon be like the Germans, one brand fits all forget about all these new and wonderful creations that our wonderful growers keep concocting. Socialism sucks unless your one of the elites and don't have to follow the law even if they've taken an oath to do so, they are so much smarter than you they think and the law is just for the "little guy". So, one brand is all you get a choice of, forget the decadent OG Kush, Northern Lights and the hundreds of blends and mixtures; the STATE know best. This is what you get from Socialism, one size fits all and in Socialist/Communist Venezuela people kill for a roll of toliet paper or tampons. http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-09/catastrophe-is-the-new-normal-for-venezuelans Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the America's and the government [like ours] is so corrupt that they can't get it out of the ground, this is the face of Socialism. The lines for toliet paper and kotex tampons are miles long and worth gold if you can get them.
BERLIN — Europe is opening the floodgates to a new era of herbal therapy.
Earlier today Germany's health minister, Hermann Gröhe, introduced a proposal to establish a state cannabis agency to supervise domestic cannabis cultivation, distribution, and sales in pharmacies.
Gröhe was quick to note that this isn’t full legalization. But it does mark a new era in European drug policy. Germany, Europe’s most populous state and an affluent country, will allow much wider access to medical cannabis use. The country’s health insurers are likely to foot the bill, provided patients participate in data-collection studies.
Currently, Germany’s Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) must approve every patient who seeks treatment with herbal cannabis. Patients must first exhaust all other options before applying for access to cannabis in a complicated procedure that takes up to nine months. As a result, Germany has only 647 patients receiving herbal cannabis today, according to BfArM numbers from April, the latest available.
The German government’s proposal comes after a recent court ruling forced its hand. That ruling allowed patients to grow medical cannabis at home. The new proposal is seen as a way to prevent a tsunami of home cultivation, instead keeping cannabis production and sale within an institutionalized system.
That court decision came after a 12-year battle by multiple sclerosis patient Michael F., who fought for the right to cultivate at home to ease his painful condition with herbal cannabis. Courts ruled in April that BfArM must issue him a license to grow his own medical supply due to his inability to pay for medical cannabis from a pharmacy.
Germany's proposed law explicitly excludes patients from growing their personal supply or even the individual strain needed. Gröhe, of the conservative Christian Democratic Union Party (CDU), said that “Private cannabis cultivation by patients is out of the question.”
BERLIN — Europe is opening the floodgates to a new era of herbal therapy.
Earlier today Germany's health minister, Hermann Gröhe, introduced a proposal to establish a state cannabis agency to supervise domestic cannabis cultivation, distribution, and sales in pharmacies.
Gröhe was quick to note that this isn’t full legalization. But it does mark a new era in European drug policy. Germany, Europe’s most populous state and an affluent country, will allow much wider access to medical cannabis use. The country’s health insurers are likely to foot the bill, provided patients participate in data-collection studies.
Currently, Germany’s Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) must approve every patient who seeks treatment with herbal cannabis. Patients must first exhaust all other options before applying for access to cannabis in a complicated procedure that takes up to nine months. As a result, Germany has only 647 patients receiving herbal cannabis today, according to BfArM numbers from April, the latest available.
The German government’s proposal comes after a recent court ruling forced its hand. That ruling allowed patients to grow medical cannabis at home. The new proposal is seen as a way to prevent a tsunami of home cultivation, instead keeping cannabis production and sale within an institutionalized system.
That court decision came after a 12-year battle by multiple sclerosis patient Michael F., who fought for the right to cultivate at home to ease his painful condition with herbal cannabis. Courts ruled in April that BfArM must issue him a license to grow his own medical supply due to his inability to pay for medical cannabis from a pharmacy.
Germany's proposed law explicitly excludes patients from growing their personal supply or even the individual strain needed. Gröhe, of the conservative Christian Democratic Union Party (CDU), said that “Private cannabis cultivation by patients is out of the question.”
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