{"id":13,"date":"2008-10-29T01:35:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T06:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-10-29T01:35:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T06:35:26","slug":"drug-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/drug-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DW, GERMANY &#8211; A patient suffering from multiple sclerosis has been  legally allowed to buy cannabis at the pharmacy under strict conditions.  It&#8217;s the first time Germany has permitted the use of marijuana for  medicinal purposes. Germany&#8217; S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung reported that the  German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices for the first  time approved the application of a 51-year-old woman suffering from  multiple sclerosis to legally buy cannabis from a pharmacy to ease her  symptoms. . . So far, cannabis has been illegal in Germany &#8212; only  possession of small amounts of the drug are allowed &#8212; and its use for  medicinal purposes limited to scientific studies and aims that &#8220;are in  the public interest.&#8221;. . . In 2005, a court ruling threw into question  the complete ban on cannabis for medicinal purposes. The German Federal  Administrative Court ruled that the health of individual patients also  lay in &#8220;the public interest.&#8221; That means that the Bonn-based Federal  Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices now has to consider each  application for use of cannabis for medicinal purposes on a case-by-case  basis.  <a title=\"Drug Bust\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,2144,2746463,00.html \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,2144,2746463,00.html <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DW, GERMANY &#8211; A patient suffering from multiple sclerosis has been legally allowed to buy cannabis at the pharmacy under strict conditions. It&#8217;s the first time Germany has permitted the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Germany&#8217; S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung reported that the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices for the first time approved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}