Israeli MMJ Patient Sues Government Over ‘Tainted’ Cannabis
Alleges Israel’s medicinal pot is misrepresented and contaminated.
A medical marijuana patient whose license to grow his own cannabis was revoked in 2013, has filed a lawsuit against Israel’s health ministry for providing him with plants tainted by dangerous pesticides which are illegal for human consumption.
“Patient R” is one of only a dozen Israelis who have been issued permits to grow his own plants, and is the only patient involved in the lawsuit.
“He is suing the health ministry for providing him with dangerous substances and for not having clear rules for using pesticides in medical cannabis in Israel,” Oren Lebovich, chairman of the Green Leaf Organization and editor-in-chief of the Israeli Cannabis Magazine, told The Media Line.
Israel is known as one of the largest producers of medical marijuana in the world; at least 23,000 Israelis have prescriptions to purchase the drugs. Many of them suffer from cancer,...
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