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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Israel: Medical marijuana lobby launched in the Knesset 🌿Israel: Medical marijuana lobby launched in the Knesset
A Knesset lobby for the use of medical cannabis has been established with Likud MK Sharren Haskel at its head, it was announced on Thursday. “It has become accepted that medical cannabis has significant health benefits and an important place in the development of the world of medicine,” Haskel said, “but there are many impediments to its use. The trend is to limit this development, even tough there are many seriously ill patients who need it.”
Israel is considered a leader in cannabis research for medical uses. “This harms the huge economic potential for the Israeli economy,” the lobby said. “Only recently, it was publicized that the medical cannabis market can add 3,000 workplaces and bring in more than NIS 200 million in taxes and, in fact, save the collapsing agricultural sector.”
There are some 23,000 patients who are treated legally with medical cannabis for ameliorating their pain and improving...
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