German patients challenging the recent controversial changes to medical cannabis reimbursement via statutory health insurance (GKV) are facing lengthy battles across the country’s courts.
Germany has today voted to ban medical cannabis flower from its statutory health insurance scheme, in a controversial move critics say will have an outsized impact on the ‘seriously ill’.
Since April 2024, Berlin has cemented its place as the spiritual centre of the European cannabis industry.
Ever since the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) became the largest party in Germany’s ruling coalition government in February 2025, the country’s booming cannabis industry has been bracing for a crackdown.
