Israel Police Refusing to Ease Enforcement of Cannabis Laws
Police trying to promote more soft drug busts.
Twenty people a day are arrested in Israel for using soft drugs. In most cases they are ordinary citizens, young people starting their lives with a criminal record. Over 20,000 drug-related files are opened annually, more than half of them for personal use.
Following criticism by the public and media of police enforcement policies regarding consumption of soft drugs, former Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino declared in May 2015 that “it’s high time that the police and the state examine the traditional approach to cannabis.”
A A rally promoting Cannabis legalization in Tel Aviv. March 13, 2014 Tomer Appelbaum
Danino said that “increasing numbers of citizens want and demand an approval of personal use of cannabis. The police have traditionally opposed this. There were only a few hundred permits for using medicinal cannabis in the past....
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