Grass for health
How do you get cannabis with a prescription?
In the past, most doctors thought little of cannabis as a medicine
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The partial legalization of cannabis also has consequences for medical use. Now normal health insurance or private prescriptions are sufficient.
With partial legalization, this is a thing of the past. Now normal health insurance or private prescriptions are sufficient. The doctor and cannabis expert Franjo Grotenhermen, who has been advising chronically ill patients for decades, sees this as an opportunity. It’s easier to just try cannabis: “If it doesn’t work, then it doesn’t work. Just like with any other medication.” The risks are low. But will the doctors play along?
The cost of cannabis therapy
In the past, most people didn’t think much of joints as medicine. There are now telemedicine providers who work with doctors. Grotenhermen assumes that patients will continue to have to pay for their therapy out of their own pocket in the future, at costs between 15 and 3,000 euros, depending on the dosage form and the dose required. Health insurance companies will cover the costs upon application if standard therapies are either not available or would foreseeably cause serious side effects in individual cases – and there is a “not entirely remote prospect” of beneficial effects.