Europe: Germany Opens Door to Medical Marijuana
Beginning this week, a handful of patients in Germany have approval to start receiving medical marijuana from a Belgian firm that produces it for the Dutch government's medical marijuana program. Belgian medical wholesaler Arsus NV, whose subsidiary Fagron Netherlands supplies medical marijuana in Holland, announced in a Monday press release that its Fagron Germany subsidiary has been granted an exclusive license to import and distribute medical marijuana in Germany.
Germany's Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices, Bonn (courtesy Wikipedia)
Germany is now inching closer to full membership in the medical marijuana club, which is currently limited to a small number of countries, including Canada, Holland, and Israel. The US has its own federal medical marijuana program, but since access to it was cut off more than two decades ago, it will go extinct as soon as the last remaining patients receiving marijuana under it do.
On the other hand, the US is also home to the largest population on the planet living in jurisdictions where states have legalized medical marijuana. Roughly one-quarter of the US population lives in medical marijuana states. But they remain vulnerable to federal interference.
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reddithuman rights? what´s that?
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sat, 12/20/2008 - 12:37pmSinse when do good honest people have the right to decide whether or not they want to put something in their bodies! Well we all know that Mc Donalds causes obesity alongwith more serious health risks then smoking pot, but that´s legal because there´s greedy rich people behind it putting pressure on the government and claiming their rights! But who cares about what individuals want! In Britain they can kill soldiers in training that are only sixteen! who cares anyways their supposed to die in Iraq! All this to say to all the ignorant people out there is " You don´t have any rights only what we the government dictate! you can kill people in an illegal war and get away with it! As well as forcing strong healthy military men to recieve quote and quote medication without questioning with fear of being courtmartialled! so why should people obey the money worshiping capitallistic lie of the goverment when they say it´s for our good! feed that crap to monkeys not me. Go ask the malaysian goverment why they think it´s cool to hang an elderly man for smoking pot! makes me sick. see you all in concentration camps soon! maybe FEMA camps who knows.
if only
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 3:31pmif only state laws could override the federal laws the medical users could live without fear in the USA but then again with out fear the government does not have anything to control us with