Cannabis

Border Police seize over 10,000 cannabis plants located in 18 greenhouses in southern Israel

The event took place as part of a wider operation to locate and destroy illegal drug greenhouses across southern Israel.

Border Police forces located 18 drug greenhouses containing more than 10,000 cannabis plants, May 11, 2026.
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Cannabis

Health Ministry changes medical cannabis guidelines, passes responsibility to insurance funds

The Indonesia national flag flutters in the wind above an entrance to the Kerobokan Prison on November 6, 2025.

Sick American basketball player jailed in Indonesia over cannabis gummies pleads for early release


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

Raphael Mechoulam, Israel’s ‘father of cannabis research,’ dies at 92

Mechoulam is remembered for his contributions to the medical field his foundational role in the International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines and the International Cannabinoid Research Society

 BetterSeeds' cannabis plants.

Canonic uses AI to breed new line of THC-heavy cannabis products

The company’s six new products all contain at least 23% THC, a feat made possible thanks to AI-enabled gene selection.

 A man inspects the leaf of a cannabis plant at a medical marijuana plantation in northern Israel.