Indopedia All Things Marijuana
As a freelance journalist based in Berlin, I regularly have to travel to internationally for my work. As a cannabis patient with a daily prescription of 300mg THC, taking my medicine inside the EU has always depended on the official in charge of border control. My Canadian or Dutch flowers from the local pharmacy were just as legal in the Netherlands, Italy or Czech Republic as in Germany, but cannabis was still an illegal substance mentioned in Appendix 1 of the Narcotic Drugs Act in my home until March 2017. Any substance mentioned in that Appendix is not trafficable, but some state health authorities were emphatic and gave out permissions to carry medical cannabis in the EU states. Patients could buy cannabis with a special authorisation, a so called federal exemption on medical cannabis, until one month ago.
Since the law amendment in early March, medical cannabis was rescheduled and added to Appendix 3, making medical flowers a “trafficable anesthetic” just like legal opioids or amphetamine-derivatives like Methylphenidate (Ritalin). Some local health authorities had provided cannabis patients a “certificate for the carrying of narcotics under medical…
