Investors are high on Israel’s role in the cannabis market

Second annual CannaTech conference brings hundreds of delegates from 15 countries to see what Israeli ‘cannapreneurs’ can offer them.

Marijuana conferences are popping up on a near weekly basis in the United States. Entrepreneurs, scientists and investors have to weed out the recreational gatherings from the more important industry confabs.

But there was no doubt that the CannaTech 2016 International Summit on Cannabis Innovation this week in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem was an essential event.

Dressed in business attire, taking notes and handing out business cards, hundreds of delegates from 15 countries – including Colombia, Brazil, the US, Canada, Uruguay, Czech Republic, UK and Australia – took part in the two-day, two-city event dedicated to the emerging cannabis industry.

“Israel is ground zero for credibility, integrity, the clients, the clinical trials,” cannabis activist Cheryl Shuman, founder of the Beverly Hills Cannabis Club, tells ISRAEL21c.

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