Cannabis

Israeli citizen arrested in Thailand for operating illegal cannabis farm

Krabi Governor Angkul Silathevakul said the province would not tolerate foreign nationals conducting illegal business within its borders. 

WORKERS TAKE care of cannabis plants at a farm in central Israel,  late last year.
Israel Police seize 42.5kg. of cannabis in a Tel Aviv apartment, January 7, 2026.

WATCH: Israel Police raid cannabis dens in Tel Aviv apartment, find drug bags in Haifa vehicle

US REPRESENTATIVE Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and her husband Tim Mynett listen as Democratic presidential nominee US Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a speech during a rally on the National Mall, one week before the November 5 US presidential election, in Washington, US, October 29, 2024.

Fraud claims, wine money, Sharia: Ethical storms around Ilhan Omar’s husband

US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, December 11, 2025.

Trump weighs order to loosen federal marijuana restrictions


Over 60 Jamaican school kids hospitalized after eating cannabis rainbow candy

Jamaica decriminalized possession of up to 2 ounces (57 grams) of marijuana for religious, medicinal, and scientific purposes in 2015.

 Edibles are displayed at Shango Cannabis shop on first day of legal recreational marijuana sales beginning at midnight in Portland, Oregon October 1, 2015.

Sheep's high adventure: Flock devours 100 kg of cannabis in Greece

A shepherd initially puzzled by his flock's strange behavior later realized that hunger drove them to a medical cannabis greenhouse, where they devoured the plants.


Is smoking cannabis actually healthier than smoking tobacco? – study

Cannabis plants can absorb heavy metals from their environments and transfer them to the person smoking them.

 An employee checks cannabis plants at a medical marijuana plantation in northern Israel on March 21, 2017.

Israel police seizes 137,000 cannabis plants in largest op ever

Police raided 160 greenhouses containing 126,350 cannabis plants in the Negev firing range and additional nine greenhouses containing 11,200 plants were raided in the western Negev.

 An employee checks cannabis plants at a medical marijuana plantation in northern Israel on March 21, 2017.

Can police officers tell when you've smoked marijuana before driving? - study

In addition to their field sobriety tests, the participants took part in a driving simulation.

 A driver has been pulled over by a cop.

'Stoneos' cannabis cookies look too much like Oreos, says US FTC

The letters were sent by the FTC and FDA over concern that children may want to try them, including products that could easily be mistaken for Doritos chips and Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks.


Autistic Israeli arrested in Dubai for cannabis possession has been released - report

In Israel, he does have a license to use cannabis, but the same license is not valid in Dubai.

 A general view of Dubai Downtown showing world's tallest building Burj Al Khalifa, in Dubai United Arab Emirates, December 31, 2022.

Accessibility to medical cannabis in Israel to be made easier for some

Until now, to get medical cannabis legally, a patient had to obtain a license with the approval of the ministry or certain doctors who were trained for this.

 Employees of Plantis Agro Medical Cannabis company check the cannabis plants they grow for medical cannabis patients in Israel and abroad, in Moshav Keshet, Golan Heights, on May 16, 2023.

South African 'wooly umbrella' plant could be used to treat pain - Israeli study

The team revealed the series of biochemical steps the plant takes when it makes these compounds and also showed how these steps can be reproduced in the lab.

 Woolly umbrella, a relative of sunflowers and lettuce, blooms in a Weizmann Institute greenhouse

Prof. Raphael Mechoulam, father of Israeli cannabis research, dies at 92

The Bulgarian-born scientist will be remembered for his many contributions to the field of medicinal cannabis.

PROF. RAPHAEL MECHOULAM