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30. Medical Marijuana Industry Sprouts Up in Israel

Tue Sep 17, 2013, 11:08 PM

Sep 2013

Israel's medical-marijuana industry is thriving, and the Israeli government is funding breakthrough research on the healing potential of the cannabis plant.

Mimi Peleg’s job is to teach people how to use pot—how long to inhale smoke or vapor, how to administer sublingual drops, or how to ration out a pot cookie.

Peleg directs large-scale cannabis training for the Israeli government’s state-supported, discreet, successful and expanding medical cannabis distribution center, MECHKAR. MECHKAR began as a tiny program serving about 1,800 people from 2008-2009. Today, supplied by eight farms located all over the country, the program distributes cannabis to 12,000 patients.

MOORE:http://www.alternet.org/drugs/medical-marijuana-industry-sprouts-israel

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Is cannabis a "miracle" medicine? [View all] Bennyboy Sep 2013 OP

It can be for some people Warpy Sep 2013 #1

We still need lots of research on this. Even Sanjay Gupta cautiously said we are still very early in liberal_at_heart Sep 2013 #2

I guess we need research so the drug companies can figure out how to push their profits Jackpine Radical Sep 2013 #3

we need research so patients can be empowered with knowledge. We need to know what liberal_at_heart Sep 2013 #4

Oooooooo test it on me!!! NightWatcher Sep 2013 #8

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I can see much like the GMO argument there is not much room in this dicussion for any grey area. liberal_at_heart Sep 2013 #17

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