Germany Slashes Insurance Coverage for Medical Cannabis Patients

Germany’s Bundestag and Bundesrat passed a health-insurance cost-savings law on July 10, 2026 (the GKV-Beitragssatzstabilisierungsgesetz) that sharply cuts back coverage of medical cannabis under the country’s statutory health insurance system, known as the GKV, the public plan that covers roughly 90% of Germans. For the estimated 65,000 patients currently receiving cannabis flower or compounded cannabis […]