Israel Is High on Medical Marijuana
Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes Israeli entrepreneurs succeed because they challenge authority, question everything and don’t play by the rules.
“The impact of the Israelis on science and technology is immense, so that’s why I’m here and why I’m investing here,” he told a large crowd at Israel’s Weizman Institute in 2015.
Schmidt’s statements not only apply to Israel’s high tech businesses and start-up companies, but also to its budding medical marijuana industry. From organic chemists to entrepreneurs, nearly everyone in Israel’s field of medical marijuana attributes at least a part of their success to Israel’s culture of rule-bending and not taking “no” for an answer.
In 1964, Professor Raphael Mechoulam of the Weizmann Institute showed up at a nearby police station, asked for a bag of hashish for academic research. Mechoulam left that station with a five-kilo bag of marijuana stuffed in his sack and took a public bus back to...
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