Israel pushing ahead in medical marijuana industry [View all]

[Little Star]

USA Today
November 3. 2012

Moshe Rute survived the Holocaust by hiding in a barn full of chickens. He nearly lost the use of his hands after a stroke two years ago. He became debilitated by recurring nightmares of his childhood following his wife's death last year.

"But after I found this, everything has been better," said the 80-year-old, as he gingerly packed a pipe with marijuana.

Rute, who lives at the Hadarim nursing home outside of Tel Aviv, is one of more than 10,000 patients who have official government permission to consume marijuana in Israel, a number that has swelled dramatically, up from serving just a few hundred patients in 2005.

The medical cannabis industry is expanding as well, fueled by Israel's strong research sector in medicine and technology - and notably, by government encouragement. Unlike in the United States and much of Europe, the issue inspires almost no controversy among the government and the country's leadership. Even influential senior rabbis do not voice any opposition to its spread, and secular Israelis have a liberal attitude on marijuana.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2012/11/03/israel-medical-marijuana-drugs/1678641/


Israel is doing wonderful things regarding medical marijuana. They have been developing all kinds of strains for many different kinds of sicknesses. And they have been giving their people access to this medicine for 10 years or more. In the US we are so far behind. This country is to invested in drug companies to be bothered with any R&D in this area.

I had a stroke and somewhere (that I can't find again) on the internet I read about a man that had a stroke. He is using one of Israel's strains that is helping him. They seem to think that strain helps because it helps get oxygen into the brain. I don't know but damn it I hope it's true.