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1Israel: Marijuana May Be A Miracle Treatment For Children With AutismTue, 25 Apr 2017
Source:USA Today (US) Author:Schwartz, Yardena Area:Israel Lines:Excerpt Added:04/25/2017

MODI'IN, ISRAEL - When Noa Shulman came home from school, her mother, Yael, sat her down to eat, then spoon-fed her mashed sweet potatoes - mixed with cannabis oil.

Noa, who has a severe form of autism, started to bite her own arm. "No sweetie," Yael gently told her 17-year-old daughter. "Here, have another bite of this."

Noa is part of the first clinical trial in the world to test the benefits of medicinal marijuana for young people with autism, a potential breakthrough that would offer relief for millions of afflicted children - and their anguished parents.

There is anecdotal evidence that marijuana's main non-psychoactive compound - cannabidiol or CBD - helps children in ways no other medication has. Now this first-of-its-kind scientific study is trying to determine if the link is real.

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2 Israel: Israel Moves To Decriminalize Marijuana UseMon, 06 Mar 2017
Source:New York Times (NY) Author:Fisher, Ian Area:Israel Lines:71 Added:03/09/2017

JERUSALEM - Israel, which has been at the forefront of research into medical marijuana and the drug's commercialization, took a major step on Sunday toward officially decriminalizing its recreational use.

At a time when many American states and European countries are loosening marijuana laws, the Israeli cabinet approved a plan that would impose fines rather than criminal penalties on those caught using the drug in public.

Growing and selling marijuana, which is widely used here recreationally and medicinally, would remain illegal.

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3 Israel: Israel, A Medical Marijuana Pioneer, Is Eager To CapitalizeSun, 18 Dec 2016
Source:New York Times (NY) Author:Kershner, Isabel Area:Israel Lines:155 Added:12/23/2016

JERUSALEM - Israeli scientists began their pioneering research to isolate the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana with a 10-pound stash seized by the Tel Aviv police. That effort, in the 1960s, helped propel Israel to the vanguard of research into the plant's medicinal properties and lay the foundations for a medical marijuana industry.

Now the nation's burgeoning pot business, backed by an unlikely coalition of farmers, lawyers, scientists, entrepreneurs and the country's ultra-Orthodox health minister, is going mainstream - and eyeing markets abroad.

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4 Israel: Most Medical Marijuana Users Benefit From TreatmentThu, 26 May 2016
Source:Jerusalem Post (Israel) Author:Siegel, Judy Area:Israel Lines:99 Added:05/26/2016

First Research into Legal Cannabis Usage Revealed at International Health Conference in Jerusalem

The first study on the characteristics of patients with Health Ministry permission for treatment with medical marijuana - until now an unknown field - was revealed on Wednesday at the Sixth International Jerusalem Conference on Health Policy.

The conference was organized by the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research.

The study was led by Prof. Pesach Shvartzman of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Health Sciences Faculty, who said even though medical cannabis has been legal for a decade and is licensed to more than 20,000 patients for relieving pain and other symptoms, "there has been no information about the users themselves."

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5 Israel: Cannabis Start-Ups Pave the Way for the Rise of aTue, 08 Mar 2016
Source:Jerusalem Post (Israel) Author:Elis, Niv Area:Israel Lines:108 Added:03/08/2016

In Israel, Where Pot Innovation Runs Deep, Companies Seek First-Mover Advantage

The way Prof. Raphael Mechoulam remembers it, the toughest part about experimenting with cannabis was taking it on the bus.

"We went to the police and they gave me 5 kilos of hashish and I went on the bus and everybody smelled something and said, ' What the hell is going on, what kind of smell is that?'"

Unlike hordes of college students who excuse their drug use as a passing phase, Mechoulam was quite literally experimenting with marijuana. As a researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, he was part of the team (alongside Yechiel Gaoni) responsible for the discovery of THC, the main psychoactive ingredient of cannabis, as well as much of the foundation research in the pharmacology of cannabinoids.

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6 Israel: From HI-Tech to 'High' Tech, Israel Is Planting theSun, 21 Feb 2016
Source:Jerusalem Post (Israel) Author:Elis, Niv Area:Israel Lines:115 Added:02/21/2016

Spark-Up Nation has a pretty good ring to it, don't you think?

Saul Kaye, the CEO of iCAN, certainly does.

For Kaye, whose company is holding its second annual CannTech conference on cannabis in Israel next month, the Jewish state is fertile ground for growing a cannabis economy.

"Israel is leading the world in research and development, from the medical side to the medical devices to the agro side," he told The Jerusalem Post in the company's co-working space in Beit Shemesh.

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7 Israel: Medical Cannabis To Be Available At DrugstoresTue, 28 Jul 2015
Source:Jerusalem Post (Israel) Author:Siegel, Judy Area:Israel Lines:80 Added:07/29/2015

The Health Ministry will make it possible for patients licensed to receive medical cannabis to get it at a pharmacy, Deputy Health Minister MK Ya'acov Litzman announced on Monday at a session of the Knesset Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse.

The policy shift will make it easier for tens of thousands of people with pain and other chronic symptoms to get medical marijuana.

"I saw medical marijuana last week for the first time," said Litzman, an MK from the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism Party. I was required by a suit in the High Court of Justice to deal with the issue," he said, adding that during his first four-year tenure as deputy health ministry, he "tried to stay away from dealing with the issue myself, but to hand it to professionals in the ministry. I am aware of the need to create order in the matter and to change the ministry's policy to make it easier for patients," the UTJ MK said.

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8 Israel: Element in Marijuana Found to Help Heal Broken BonesTue, 21 Jul 2015
Source:Buffalo News (NY)          Area:Israel Lines:40 Added:07/22/2015

TEL AVIV - There's yet another use for marijuana: It may help to heal broken bones, according to a new study.

Researchers found that cannabidiol - an element of marijuana that does not get people high improved the healing process in rats with broken leg bones after eight weeks, according to a study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research by Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University.

Yankel Gabet of Tel Aviv's Bone Research Laboratory who led the study, said it found that the element "makes bones stronger during healing," which could prevent future fractures. This process occurs as cannabidiol, or CBD, enhances the maturation of collagen, the protein in connective tissue that "holds the body together."

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9 Israel: Prof Considered Father Of Medical Marijuana ResearchMon, 29 Jun 2015
Source:Kingston Whig-Standard (CN ON) Author:Rawhani, Anisa Area:Israel Lines:95 Added:07/03/2015

Raphael Mechoulam Has Spent the Last 50 Years Studying Cannabinoid Field

He's known as the father of medicinal marijuana research, but if you call Prof. Raphael Mechoulam that, he'll just laugh.

But the name sticks, as he's spent the past 50 years studying the cannabinoid field and is responsible for much of what we know today.

"From a medical point of view, here we have a treasure trove of material, which should be investigated."

Mechoulam was born in 1930 to a Jewish family, when "the wounds of the First Wold War were not too painful anymore and Hitler was still considered a demented curiosity," Mechoulam said in an interview with Addiction.

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10 Israel: Danino: It's Time to Reevaluate Cannabis ProhibitionThu, 14 May 2015
Source:Jerusalem Post (Israel) Author:Hartman, Ben Area:Israel Lines:122 Added:05/14/2015

The cause of marijuana legalization received a boost from an unlikely source on Wednesday, when Israel Police Insp.-Gen. Yohanan Danino said it is time for the government and police to reexamine their policies on the use of cannabis and study how other countries were dealing with the matter.

"I think the time has come for the Israel Police, together with the state, to reexamine their stance on cannabis. I think we must sit and study what's happening around the world," he said.

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11 Israel: Le'Or Aims to Put Marijuana Legalization on the JewishSun, 15 Feb 2015
Source:Jerusalem Post (Israel) Author:Spence, Rebecca Area:Israel Lines:198 Added:02/15/2015

"You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob, what is the matter with them?"

That was President Richard Nixon speaking to his top aide, H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, during a recorded White House meeting back in 1971.

Fast forward some four decades, a new nonprofit group based in Portland, Ore., is hoping to prove Nixon right. Le'Or, founded about a year ago with seed funding from Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap Company, wants to convince American Jews that ending marijuana prohibition belongs on the progressive Jewish communal agenda alongside marriage equality and immigration reform.

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12 Israel: Medical Marijuana Without The HighMon, 02 Feb 2015
Source:Washington Post (DC) Author:O'Connor, Anne- Marie Area:Israel Lines:158 Added:02/02/2015

Israel Is at Forefront of Research, but Export of Plant Doesn't Appear to Be on the Horizon

Safed, Israel - In a greenhouse in the mountains of the Galilee, a technician in a lab coat is coddling a marijuana seedling that is coveted for life-saving medical benefits for epileptic children, doctors say - without the high.

Named "Rafael," for a healing angel called upon by Moses, this varietal of cannabis is for people who don't want to be under the influence, and it is available in oral doses in Israel.

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13 Israel: High Hopes Spur Cash Harvest For Green LeafThu, 15 Jan 2015
Source:Jerusalem Post (Israel) Author:Hartman, Ben Area:Israel Lines:68 Added:01/16/2015

Pledge of Legal Marijuana Present Nets Party Nis 100,000 in Donations

A promise of marijuana in the future in exchange for campaign donations today helped the Aleh Yarok ("Green Leaf") party net more than NIS 100,000 in donations this week.

The campaign, launched in a YouTube video on Saturday, promises donors who front it campaign donations that they will receive marijuana if and when the day comes that the plant is legalized in Israel.

On Monday morning, the party opened a Headstart Web fund-raising campaign with a range of options for donors. The Web page includes a sliding scale of theoretical marijuana in exchange for contributions. At the lowest end, an NIS 50 donation entitles the donor to a savings bond redeemable for a single gram of marijuana once it's legalized. The bond, which features a marijuana flower on it, costs significantly less than the street value of a gram of marijuana in Israel (NIS 80-100), and by Wednesday the 56 spots available for that donation had all been purchased.

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14 Israel: Marijuana Prevents Physiological, Behavioral DamageTue, 09 Sep 2014
Source:Jerusalem Post (Israel) Author:Siegel, Judy Area:Israel Lines:95 Added:09/09/2014

Experiment on Rats May Lead to Ways to Prevent Development of Ptsd in Humans

Giving rats synthetic cannabinoids soon after a traumatic event can prevent post-traumatic stress disorder-like symptoms caused by the trauma and by reminders of it.

This was discovered by Nachshon Korem and Dr. Irit Akirav of the University of Haifa's psychology department, as just published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.

"The importance of this study is that it contributes to the understanding of the brain basis of the positive effect cannabis has on PTSD. This thus supports the necessity of performing human trials to examine potential ways to prevent the development of PTSD and anxiety disorders in response to a traumatic event," the researchers said.

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15 Israel: Court Rejects Challenge Over Supply of MedicalMon, 26 May 2014
Source:Jerusalem Post (Israel) Author:Bob, Yonah Jeremy Area:Israel Lines:61 Added:05/26/2014

Jerusalem District Court Judge Nava Ben-Or last week rejected a challenge to aspects of the government's current policy permitting the use of cannabis for medical purposes.

The decision, in favor of medical supplier Sarel Corporation as well as the Health Ministry, the Finance Ministry, and other related parties, was handed down Thursday, but was announced by the court on Sunday.

Ben-Or sat as an administrative judge on a petition by the Barak Corporation seeking that aspects of the cannabis policy be declared invalid. One was that the government failed to advertise properly the tender for which corporations would have a right to distribute cannabis and receive exemption from certain regulations.

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16 Israel: The World Is Going To PotSat, 17 May 2014
Source:Jerusalem Post (Israel) Author:Siegel-Itzkovich, Judy Area:Israel Lines:230 Added:05/18/2014

Research into cannabis and its wide variety of components by Prof. Raphael Mechoulam was ignored for decades.

Half a century ago, the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot and the National Institutes of Health in the US said they "weren't interested" in Prof. Raphael Mechoulam's research on the active ingredients in cannabis. Unwilling to further pursue organic chemistry research, they were rather shortsighted.

"There wasn't a single lab in the USA that worked on cannabis. When I asked the NIH for a grant, they said: 'Sorry, we can't give it to you. This isn't an American problem," he recalled. Later, the NIH reconsidered and provided him with research money for 45 years. There is currently huge pressure throughout the US for medical cannabis to be made available to relevant patients. Even recreational use of the drug has been approved in the states of Colorado and Washington, and campaigns to legalize marijuana for non-medical use are being proposed in other states.

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17 Israel: Egypt Border Fence Chokes Israeli Weed SmokersSun, 02 Feb 2014
Source:Post, The (Zambia)          Area:Israel Lines:93 Added:02/02/2014

Israel's newly fortified Egyptian border has delivered a severe blow to drug smugglers, forcing its hashish and marijuana smokers to deal with a new kind of high - soaring prices. The ravines that snake past rocky red mountains once provided a popular, low-risk route for traffickers to run drugs, women and African migrants into Israel over the southern frontier along Egypt's Sinai desert.

But with a rise in Islamist militant violence in Sinai, Israel in 2011 accelerated the fortification of the border with a five-metre (16-foot)-high fence, state-of-the art surveillance and special military forces - with a crippling side effect for smugglers.

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18 Israel: German Determined to Make Supply of Medical CannabisSun, 08 Dec 2013
Source:Jerusalem Post (Israel) Author:Siegel, Judy Area:Israel Lines:90 Added:12/08/2013

Health Minister Yael German (Yesh Atid) is due to present a proposal to the government to create order in the production, supply and authorization of medical cannabis to patients with serious diseases, on Sunday.

Marijuana, grown for medical purposes in Israel and abroad, is provided by eight suppliers, and is known to relieve pain and other severe symptoms from certain diseases.

However, its efficacy has not yet been scientifically proven, and it carries with it several risks.

The law enforcement authorities are concerned about transfer of the legal medical cannabis to criminal elements and recreational users, whereas the Israel Medical Association is concerned about patients trying to take advantage of doctors for access to the drug.

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19 Israel Taking To Cannabis Grown At Home As Wall Curbs Arab HashMon, 11 Nov 2013
Source:Business Week (US) Author:Wainer, David Area:Israel Lines:130 Added:11/14/2013

A worker trims cannabis at a growing facility near the northern city of Safed, Israel. (Photographer: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

A few years back Israeli cannabis smokers grappled with the notion that their drug money often enriched the country's foes. These days, they're more likely to light up marijuana produced in Tel Aviv basements or villas outside Jerusalem than hashish smuggled in from abroad.

"Marijuana has quietly become the main product here," said Daniel Nahum, a former paratrooper who first noticed the change when he began smelling pot in bohemian neighborhoods of Jaffa, an ancient port city south of Tel Aviv.

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20 Israel: Israel Switches To Homegrown PotWed, 13 Nov 2013
Source:Seattle Times (WA) Author:Wainer, David Area:Israel Lines:113 Added:11/14/2013

Previously Relied on Arab Countries

Tighter Border Security Thwarts Shipments

TEL AVIV - A few years back Israeli cannabis smokers grappled with the notion that their drug money often enriched the country's foes. These days, they're more likely to light up marijuana produced in Tel Aviv basements or villas outside Jerusalem than hashish smuggled in from abroad.

"Marijuana has quietly become the main product here," said Daniel Nahum, a former paratrooper who first noticed the change when he began smelling pot in bohemian neighborhoods of Jaffa, an ancient port city south of Tel Aviv.

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