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Israeli sentenced to two years in French prison for khat smuggling

The Department of Israelis Abroad in the Foreign Office Consular Division is now handling more than 100 cases of Israeli detention in Europe over the past year for the smuggling of Khat.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Ali Abdi, 14, and his friend Abdulahi Yaroow, 13, chew khat in Mogadishu August 10, 2014. Grown on plantations in the highlands of Kenya and Ethiopia, tonnes of khat, or qat, dubbed "the flower of paradise" by its users, are flown daily into Mogadishu airport, to be distributed from there in convoys
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14 Israelis arrested for khat-smuggling across Europe in past few days

The Israelis were caught with tens of kilograms of the drug indigenous to the Yemeni region, with the largest smuggling attempts weighing in at 91 and 82 kilograms each.

|ByIDAN ZONSHINE
Cannabis

Israel's grass to grow greener, cabinet about to approve cannabis exports

Israel is already considered a world leader in cannabis production, and the legalization of exports will boost the sector even more.

|ByURI BOLLAG
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The debate over marijuana: Politics and polemics

|ByDAVID TURNER