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.
The Israeli Embassy in London places its flag at half-mast to commemorate the victims of the Meron stampede that took place on Lag Ba'omer 2021.

UK man charged for threatening messages to Israeli embassy, Muslim orgs, MP office

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


On a money roll: How did Israel go from hating cannabis to embracing it?

Israelis regularly inhale the most weed per capita anywhere on Earth. Why is everyone united on marijuana use? Follow the money.

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

US instructs surgeons to ask patients about cannabis use in new guidelines

regular cannabis use may worsen pain and nausea after surgery and increase the need for opioids, which often become addictive and can kill.

A man prepares a cigarette mixed with marijuana during Cannatech 2017, an annual global cannabis industry event, in Tel Aviv, Israel March 20, 2017.

Israel's cannabis industry is dismantling itself from within

Until recently, Israel's medical cannabis sector seemed so promising. But one mistake has has eroded this bright future and now the companies are panicking.

Seach medical cannabis farm

US children's marijuana edible consumption jumps by 1,375% in five years

97% of the 3,000+ children who accidentally ate marijuana edibles in the US found the edibles in their own homes.

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

Police bust network of doctors illegally selling medical cannabis licenses

Drug dealers exploited the criminal network in order to buy cannabis and sell it for a profit.

 MANY USE marijuana and other drugs to self-medicate (Illustrative).

Medical marijuana found effective in reducing chronic lower-back pain – Israeli study

Four out of five people have lower back pain at some point in their lives, making it one of the most common reasons people visit their doctors.

Seach medical cannabis farm

Is this the end of mass-text cannabis hawking?

Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel established a new regulation that aims to significantly reduce the proliferation of cannabis-touting spam texts.

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Cannabis seeds from Israeli start-up BetterSeeds touch down in Canada

The company hopes to ease the challenges faced by the rapidly expanding global cannabis market with its uniquely stable strains.

 BetterSeeds' cannabis plants.

Is cannabis dangerous for pregnant women? - study

A study finds that prenatal cannabis use can result in psychopathology in children — and doesn't get better as the children grow older.

A farmer is seen in a cannabis field in the Yammouneh area west of Baalbek, Lebanon, August 13, 2018.

Does smoking weed make you lazy? High-ly important study says no

The findings of this joint study further debunk the "lazy stoner" stereotype, blazing forward the body of research into the truth about cannabis use.

An employee inspects the leaf of a cannabis plant at a medical marijuana plantation in northern Israel.