Hardly any strain other than OG Kush in recent years has enthused marijuana fans all around the globe. The hype around this devastatingly potent strain naturally started where it was bred – in the USA – but from there set out to conquer the whole world.
Over the past few months, the medical cannabis industry in Isreal has been going through a difficult period: the reform that the ministry of health has tried to implement in an effort of bringing order has only contributed to general chaos, and many patients from all over the country are complaining of a shortage.
Following a number of high-profile cases featuring critically ill children, the British Government recently announced that it would finally change its stance on medical cannabis.
a soldier who has been found guilty of smoking cannabis outside the army on a few occasions will be indicted, but if he undertakes to give clean urine samples and successfully ends a certain test period (or his military service) with no further offenses, he will not be prosecuted.”
12% of Israelis consume cannabis
“We are dealing with one of the most severe violations ever discovered in our region,”
“Even if the police find only a few grams they can imprison you for more than two months without seeing a lawyer.”
The primaries in the Israeli Labor Party—which leads the opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party—recently forced
the top candidates to make statements in favor of cannabis.
There is considerable public and political interest in the use of cannabis products for medical purposes. The task force of the European Pain Federation (EFIC) conducted a survey with its national chapters representatives on the status of approval of all types of cannabis-based medicines, the covering of costs and the availability of a position paper of a national medical association on the use of medical cannabis for chronic pain and for symptom control in palliative/supportive care.