“I have everything you can try. I only have cannabis to help, “says Alexandra Scheiderer. The list of ir diagnoses is long, a selection: Four herniated discs, osteoarthritis on both hip joints and suspicion of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare connective tissue disease. From 2011 on she took morphine, it made her sleepy and robbed her of appetite. She had to give up her work as a social care worker, today 44-year-old retired and 80 degrees severely impeded. One day, Scheiderer tried cannabis and noted: Her body became calmer, pain became more bearable. “It’s not about Highsein,” she stresses, on contrary: “I want to be Lord of my senses.”
Since 10 March 2017, doctors in Germany may prescribe cannabis on prescription, previously only about a thousand patients with a derogation from Federal Opium office were allowed to use legal cannabis. But those who are listening to Munich say: Seven months after amendment of law, re is still great ignorance and uncertainty among patients, doctors and cashiers as to how to deal with new situation.
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Because Scheiderer did not want to consume illegally, she was looking for a doctor who prescribed her cannabis. A grueling search. She had to justify herself over and over again. “I wanted a lighter drug than morphine, which is extracted from same plant as heroin,” she says. When morphine, as she says, caused a tumor, she wanted an alternative. She made withdrawal, she’s been morphiumfrei for three months. She had a lot of pain, had no sleep for four hours and could only run with Rollator.
After amendment of law, she finally found a doctor who was willing to provide her with a prescription. On 18 July, application for acquisition of costs was submitted to AOK. Because he has not been approved to this day, a doctor wrote a private prescription. But she can’t afford it. Since Scheiderer is open to fact that she relies on cannabis as a medicine, she is experiencing exclusion herself in her own family, she tells. She was recently unloaded from a family wedding. Scheiderer emphasizes, “I’m no fun poad. I have to do this in order to be able to live reasonably normal. “
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Those who are interested in cannabis as a drug in Munich, whose first contact point is Hanfladen in Einsteinstraße. He is intended as a precursor to rapy Center for cannabis patients, who wants to open Wenzel Vaclav Cerveny at latest in spring 2018. The store owner is convinced of medicinal benefits of hemp, even if he has never tried it himself. In his shop he hired a “patient adviser”. Every day, three to five people would come to him to ask if cannabis could help m, says Thorsten Hetfeld. They are predominantly older people, y have cancer or suffer from chronic pain. “Most people have never had anything to do with cannabis before.”
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Although every doctor may prescribe cannabis since amendment of law, it is not easy for patients to find a doctor Who wants to get into new medicine. Many shy away from bureaucratic effort and are concerned about being discredited as a “drug doctor”. Also a Munich neurologist, who has previously prescribed three patients cannabis, wants to remain anonymous. Since amendment of law, he has to deal with a patient who asks him about cannabis every two weeks. There are two groups: one who read “miracle cure” and want to try it out. And ors who are already smoking weed.
The doctor says he believes his patients that y feel better after y have consumed cannabis-only: In law it is said that people with “serious diseases” are allowed to take cannabis. What this is is sometimes perceived subjectively very differently. The neurologist criticizes that cannabis has been approved as a medicine before enough serious study templates. He is refore sympatic to colleagues who do not prescribe cannabis. The fact that doctors have to submit an application for a cost transfer at POS is generally good. Only rampant bureaucracy that no one pays him is disturbing him.
Fadia El Jana, who is responsible for administration of narcotics recipes in a Munich house practice, finds: “The cashier is thus heavily involved in rapy freedom of Doctor.” It criticizes fact that cash registers only approve a certain variety. If this is not available or if doctor wants to prescribe anor variety, a new permit is required. And it lasts. Often as long as new variety is no longer available and a new approval procedure has to be started again.
