Zenplanto in the media

From April, GPs can prescribe medicinal cannabis to their patients with intractable pain. According to the chairman of the Association of General Practitioners, Petr Šonka, this option makes sense because they can also prescribe strong opiates. However, he told ČTK that he does not expect much interest from doctors and patients right from the start. Medical cannabis has been used in the Czech Republic since 2015, with around 250 doctors prescribing it so far. Last year, 320 kilograms of it were prescribed to patients.

The Czech Republic is experiencing a boom in legal cultivation of medical cannabis with modern technology, with companies like Zenplanto producing high quality, high THC medical cannabis, while the government is considering partial legalisation which could significantly expand the market.

Zenplanto collaborates with St. Anne's University Hospital in Brno to grow medical cannabis in the laboratory, allowing the unique genetics of the plants to be preserved. The company plans to build a gene bank of medicinal cannabis in the Czech Republic.

The Cannabis and Science conference is held in Brno, where experts discuss medical cannabis, including the ICRC hospital cultivation facility producing 20-25 kg per year for chronic pain patients, and the plans of national drug coordinator Jindřich Voboril to regulate the cannabis market in the Czech Republic.

The number of cannabis cultivation facilities for medicinal purposes is increasing in the Czech Republic. The state is granting licences from 2022 and producers are responding both to rapidly growing domestic consumption and the possibility of
exported to neighbouring Germany with its large market.

Zenplanto Farms has opened a fully automated high-tech medical cannabis cultivation plant with a high THC content in Nelahozeves, which is to produce a thousand kilograms of quality dry matter for the Czech and foreign markets on an area of 400 m² under the expert guarantee of St. Anne's University Hospital in Brno.

The fully automated Zenplanto cultivation plant near Nelahozeves produces up to a tonne of medicinal cannabis per year in laboratory conditions using state-of-the-art technology, including HEPA filters and special LED lighting simulating diurnal cycles, which ensures high quality products with a THC content of over 30 percent, intended for both the Czech market and for export abroad.

The licensed cultivation facility in Nelahozeves produces up to a tonne of medical cannabis per year with a THC of almost 30%, but most of it goes abroad, while only 200 kg is released on the Czech market annually, compared to 16 tonnes in neighbouring Germany.

The Zenplanto cultivation plant in Nelahozeves is one of six certified cultivation plants in the Czech Republic that can legally supply medicinal cannabis, with a capacity of up to 1,000 kilograms of dry matter per year, which contributes to the growing trend of using cannabis in medicine, especially in the treatment of chronic pain, eczema and psychological diseases.