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On a Crusade for Cannabis in Israel

posted by n1 on Sunday June 19 2016, @09:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-a-growing-industry dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

A serious professional, [Laura] Kam [Founder and CEO of Kam Global Strategies, a Jerusalem-based public relations firm] has embarked on a very serious mission to make the State of Israel – where medical cannabis is legal and used therapeutically every day – the world’s center for research and further development of the plant. One thing she knows from the outset is that, for the moment at least, we need not worry about competition in this area from America.

“In the US, cannabis is regulated as a ‘Schedule 1 drug,’ akin to heroin, so there is virtually no research going on with it,” Kam says.

“No institution with ties to the federal government, such as the National Institutes of Health, will do any kind of research on cannabis. Israel has much more liberal cannabis research policies than the US, so investment money has been pouring into Israel for research.

Source: http://www.jpost.com/Metro/On-a-crusade-for-cannabis-456932

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Monday June 20 2016, @12:45AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Monday June 20 2016, @12:45AM (#362602) Journal

    This is because years ago Dow Chemical saw cannabis as a threat to it's hemp rope business.

    Um, cannabis is hemp? You may have slightly mis-remembered the stoner mythology.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @02:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @02:10AM (#362633)

    Yep, he has it wrong. Hemp was a threat to Hearst's logging and paper mill operations.

    • (Score: 2) by Ellis D. Tripp on Monday June 20 2016, @02:25AM

      by Ellis D. Tripp (3416) on Monday June 20 2016, @02:25AM (#362641)

      And DuPont (not Dow), with their new synthetic fiber called Nylon. Their woodpulp chemicals business surely played a part as well....

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      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @05:21AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @05:21AM (#362706)

        cotton farmers and the textile industry, which was built around selling overpriced and labor intensive cotton over the much easier to produce (but coarse and lower quality) hemp. Hemp's one major shortfall (and the reason hemp rope is unpopular) is that it wicks moisture towards the center of the strands instead of away from them, like cotton does.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @04:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @04:14AM (#362688)

    > You may have slightly mis-remembered the stoner mythology.

    Comes with the territory.