Thousands more doctors in the Czech Republic will soon be permitted to prescribe medical cannabis under a new decree published by the Ministry of Health.
From April 2025, the country’s 5,000 general practitioners will be permitted to prescribe medical cannabis to patients with chronic pain, following years of lobbying from patients and healthcare professionals.
Medical cannabis has been legal in Czechia since 2013 but currently only specialists are permitted to prescribe. As a result only 200 doctors are actively prescribing cannabis-based medicines— a figure which has remained the same for several years.