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Cannabis

Cannabis. Credit: Max Pixel/Creative Commons.

Israeli children hospitalized after eating cannabis cookies

Brothers, ages 2 and 6, are hospitalized in Ramat Gan’s Tel Hashomer hospital.

May 16, 2023

A team of Israeli researchers found that the woolly umbrella produces a number of active compounds in cannabis, including some that have medical uses. Photo by Dr. Sagit Meir via TPS.

Plant with cannabis qualities opens new avenues for medical use

Israeli researchers studying the wooly umbrella, or Helichrysum umbraculigerum, discovered that it produces a number of active compounds found in cannabis.

May 3, 2023

Marijuana, or cannabis. Credit: Pixabay.

Sa’ar moves ahead to try to decriminalize recreational cannabis in Israel

If the new regulation is approved, recreational cannabis would become an administrative offense for many, akin to a traffic violation.

February 10, 2022

The medical cannabis inhaler developed by Syqe Medical. Credit: Syqe Medical.

Israeli medical cannabis inhaler receives approval to sell in Canada

The technology used in the portable, handheld device went through 10 years of research and development.

May 3, 2021

Young Israelis gathered at the Rose Garden in front of the Knesset to mark the international '4:20' marijuana smoking day, in a demonstration to legalize the drug, in Jerusalem, on April 20, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Why is Israel going to pot?

One would think that with the COVID-19 outbreak now lurching out of control—not to mention never-ending security threats—a move to inflict upon itself the dire risks to public health and social order from normalizing cannabis use would be dismissed out of hand as crazy beyond belief.

Melanie Phillips

July 2, 2020

Cannabis, also known as marijuana, June 10 2011. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash 90.

Israel moves a step closer to decriminalizing cannabis

A pair of bills seeking to decriminalize and regulate personal use of the drug passes first reading in the Knesset.

June 25, 2020

Cannabis, also known as marijuana, June 10 2011. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash 90.

Say no to legalization

Israel has been blessed with human treasure, wonderful young people who reach international achievements in every field. We must not harm them by legitimizing cannabis.

June 14, 2020

Illustrative image of a person smoking marijuana. Feb. 11, 2020. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.

Likud, Blue and White to work towards decriminalizing cannabis

Legislation to be advanced “as soon as possible” to make it easier for patients to get access to medical marijuana and easier for growers to obtain licenses.

June 10, 2020

Tel Arad in the eastern Negev Desert, where there's a fortress constructed by the kingdom of Judah around the eighth century BCE. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Holy smokes! Ancient Israelites burned cannabis, according to researchers

They suggested that mind-altering substances could have been used in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.

June 1, 2020