A proposal from German Health Minister Hermann Gröhe to allow seriously ill individuals increased access to medical marijuana was approved by the German government on Wednesday.
The law stipulates that patients for whom other treatments for serious diseases are ineffective will be able to have access to medical marijuana paid for by their public health insurance. Such patients will need notification from a doctor that other treatments were ineffective.
"We want to give the best possible care to the seriously ill," said Gröhe, a Christian Democrat, in a press release from the health ministry on Wednesday.
Previously, patients seeking to use medical marijuana needed special permission to obtain it and had to pay for it themselves.
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