Israel: Knesset debates marijuana users driving

Currently, medical marijuana users are prohibited from driving at all and in some cases have had their licenses revoked.

Knesset Members debated on Tuesday whether to amend a law so as to permit those using cannabis for medical reasons to keep their drivers licenses.

Currently, medical marijuana users are prohibited from driving at all and in some cases have had their licenses revoked.

At the Special Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse chaired by Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg who has publicly admitted to occasionally smoking marijuana. gave its backing to the opinion of the Health Ministry’s Medical Institute for Road Safety last month that medical marijuana use is similar to other types of prescription medication.

Dr. Raz Dekel, who heads the Medical Institute for Road Safety, told the special committee on Tuesday that “having a medical prescription for cannabis should not automatically invalidate [a user’s] driver’s license.”

Still, he emphasized...

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