Cannabis Rx at the forefront of cannabis distribution in Germany

Here is the post-COVID-19 fantasy for North Americans. Imagine going to your average corporate pharmacy, submitting a prescription for medicinal cannabis (including flower) written for you by a licensed medical professional, and walking away with a monthly supply of it for about $ 12. Sounds like a great, albeit psychedelic, trip in your local geography? This process is now taking place in Germany as well, on an increasingly regular basis - but don't be fooled. In fact, it's still not for the faint of heart to see a doctor here and get a cannabis prescription. The process has evolved since 2017 when the laws here changed. The first cannabis grown in Germany just went online this year. But it is becoming increasingly normal. And that's a victory worth celebrating no matter where it happens. In Germany, even in this new reality, pharmacies are a critical part of the supply chain. German law prescribes a special relationship between patient and pharmacist, which makes them just as important in the medical hierarchy as doctors, well beyond their place on the "last mile" in the supply chain. This is the best way to understand the way we work today a little more vividly. If you imagine an "old-fashioned" small town pharmacy in an American Norman Rockwell past, then this is what, in a certain way, still defines German pharmacies today. It is against the law for a company to have more than four stationary pharmacies. For this reason, the pharmacies and the people who work in them are a kind of "front-line care", personal care. In other words, a form of health care that is almost completely forgotten, if not discarded, in the US and the UK. The difference is that pharmacists are not only at the forefront of patient care today, but also have to balance operations in a complex, highly bureaucratic environment. German pharmacies act at the crucial interface between doctor, patient, distributor, insurance company and all the other moving parts.