ISRAEL’S right-wing government is adamantly opposed to the legalisation of cannabis for recreational use. But it is also rather lax when it comes to medical marijuana. The health ministry is currently licensing a new list of 100 or so doctors who will be allowed to prescribe the drug for a growing list of medical conditions, and is allowing regular pharmacists to stock it. In August the agriculture minister announced that local cannabis growers will soon be allowed to export medical marijuana.
Israel has a number of advantages. It has booming agricultural and medical technology sectors, a strong record in creating start-ups and a large venture-capital industry to fund them. In addition, marijuana research in Israel, which has been going on since the 1960s, has a head-start over America, where both the medical community and pharmaceutical companies are heavily restricted by laws which are only now being slowly reviewed. Although a growing list of American states are allowing legal marijuana use, both for medical and recreational purposes, there are very few clinical trials of the suitability of various strains and active ingredients for treating...Continue reading
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