Online pharmacies aggressively advertise cannabis prescriptions – even without medical advice. The CSU sees this as counteracting the traffic light plans and “further madness of this law” Since April 1st, cannabis is no longer considered a narcotic, but rather a prescription medication.
Two doctors who are currently very popular with consumers are a “Doctor of Medicine’ from Croatia, who sells cannabis via a platform from Lower Saxony, and a Hamburg doctor whose company is based in Malta. Due to the high number of requests, there has already been a freeze on inquiries on the relevant portals. The Association of German Cannabis Patients (BDCan) is watching this development with concern. “We are pissed off,” says Michael Kambeck, political spokesman for the association, to IPPEN.” There are a lot of pseudo-patients”, says Stephan Pilsinger, a Munich health politician who is allowed to prescribe cannabis. He has already dealt with patients with chronic pain or spasticity who were prescribed cannabis by a neurologist.