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samm1917
1 year ago

In Germany, the legislature has waived specific indications regarding the treatment with cannabis. Cannabis can therefore be prescribed for all complaints if this can be established medically. However, the hurdles are relatively high. Cannabis can only be prescribed if:

  1. Regarding a medically relevant disease, there is no suitable therapy method (either medically or otherwise).
  2. All existing suitable therapeutic methods (medicamentally and otherwise) were incompatible.
  3. Existing suitable therapy methods (medicamentally as otherwise) showed no effect (therapy resistance).

The decisive point is often the third. When exactly one patient is to be classified as "therapy-resistant", the legislator is not defined. It is therefore up to the attending physician to define this. Now there are doctors who are very open to treatment with cannabis and those who almost categorically reject treatment with cannabis… and of course there is everything in between.

But what does this mean in relation to ADHD. It means that cannabis can be prescribed purely theoretically for the treatment of ADHD. However, all other treatment experiments (medicines such as behavioral therapeutic measures) must have proven to be incompatible or ineffective.