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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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