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The desert soil in the midst of tank shelling, range firing and navigational tracking, is also home to thousands of marijuana plants belonging to Bedouin criminals in a large number of greenhouses.

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Knesset to Weigh Decriminalizing Weed as War on Drugs Authority Flips

By JNi.Media

The Drug Authority's Chief Scientist, Yossi Fisch, noted that the incidence of Marijuana serving as a "gateway drug" is "negligible, zero."

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Knesset Committee Quarrels with Anti-Drug Officials over Colorado Legalized Weed

By JNi.Media

"It's been four years into the legalization in Colorado and the sky did not fall," committee chairwoman Tamar Zandberg (Meretz) said.

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Field of Dreams

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A farmer in the (legal) Tikkun Olan Cannabis farm near Tzfat. This is one of their greenhouses. The company is licensed by Israel's Ministry of Health to grow, process and distribute the medicinal plant.

Religion / News Briefs / Israel

Israel Rabbi Says Marijuana ‘Kosher’ if Medicinal

By JTA

Marijuana is not milk or dairy; it is not an animal whose kashrus is questionable. Rabbis have ruled it’s not kosher to take drugs to escape the world, but one rules “grass” for medical purposes is kosher.