Medical marijuana israel

Israel's medicinal cannabis policies are about to change. Here's how

Israel's new reforms for medicinal cannabis will remove a lot of the heavy regulations in the sector, making it more accessible and boosting new research.

AUGUST 8, 2023|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

A man inspects the leaf of a cannabis plant at a medical marijuana plantation in northern Israel.

CANONIC PUTS its plants through rigorous testing, ensuring the best product for their patients

Medical marijuana licensing: Israeli patients aren't benefitting anymore

TECH AFFAIRS: Many of the 120,000 or so Israelis with licenses to use medical cannabis have been facing rising costs, more bureaucracy, and more difficulties in obtaining their supply.

JULY 22, 2023|ByTROY O. FRITZHAND

The National Insurance Institute building in Jerusalem

Who is entitled to funding for the new medical cannabis insurance benefit?

As part of improving the service for victims of hostilities, the National Insurance has signed a new exclusive agreement with the company Syqe that develops and markets a medical cannabis inhaler.

JUNE 29, 2023|ByMAARIV ONLINE

Employees of Plantis Agro Medical Cannabis company check the cannabis plants they grow for medical cannabis patients in Israel and abroad, in Moshav Keshet, Golan Heights, on May 16, 2023.

Accessibility to medical cannabis in Israel to be made easier for some

Until now, to get medical cannabis legally, a patient had to obtain a license with the approval of the ministry or certain doctors who were trained for this.

JUNE 13, 2023|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

High hopes: Israel set to become major exporter of medical cannabis

OCTOBER 2, 2017ByMARK WEISS

Israeli Agriculture Ministry accepts medical marijuana as farming sector

According to projections by the ministry’s experts, the medical cannabis market for Israeli exports will amount to roughly NIS 1-4 billion a year.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD

Israeli medical cannabis is flying high

Jerusalem’s Israel Medical Conference focused on how the increasingly acceptable green weed could benefit health.

AUGUST 20, 2017ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Beleaguered Israeli pop star Guttman dies at 41

The former lead singer of Israeli boy band HFive nearly drowned Saturday after saving his niece.

JULY 23, 2017ByLAHAV HARKOV

Hebrew University launches multidisciplinary center on medical marijuana

The center’s research will focus on cancer, pain, inflammation and stress management, immunity, metabolism and more.

APRIL 5, 2017ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

‘Medical-grade cannabis products to be available in less than a year’

Yuval Landschaft, the director of the Healthy Ministry's Medical Cannabis Unit, shared this estimate with the participants of CannaTech, Israel's Int'l Summit for Accelerating Cannabis Innovation.

MARCH 20, 2017BySHARON UDASIN

Growing weed in an Israeli-New Mexican lab

“It is history in the making for an Israeli company to bring the tidings to the citizens of New Mexico.”

MARCH 2, 2017BySHARON UDASIN

Israeli, New Mexican partners open first US pharmaceutical cannabis production site

Knesset moves forward bill to allow cannabis export

As for today, there are only eight companies that grow cannabis, and there are dozens of requests by business owners for licenses to join the market.

FEBRUARY 8, 2017ByUDI SHAHAM

Knesset bill would allow export of medical cannabis

Israeli growers work together with scientific institutions in clinical trials and development of strains that treat a variety of illnesses and disorders.

FEBRUARY 6, 2017ByUDI SHAHAM

Demonstrators hold signs at a 2010 rally in Tel Aviv for the legalization of marijuana.

A higher authority: The rabbinical answer to medical marijuana

As the medical marijuana industry expands in Israel and the US, rabbinic authorities are weighing in.

OCTOBER 24, 2016ByAMY SPIRO