Court: Let them eat cannabis

The High Court of Justice has ruled that a prisoner can receive his prescribed medicinal marijuana in cookie form while he’s serving his sentence, rejecting his petition to be allowed to smoke joints instead.

Dror Ozeri was found guilty of illegally manufacturing dangerous drugs and sentenced to seven months in prison. However, the prison service was faced with a dilemma: Ozeri holds a permit allowing him to use cannabis for medicinal purposes.

The case reached the court after Ozeri said he must smoke and inhale the drug in order for it to help him, while prison doctors said that it would be effective even when baked and eaten, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday. Ozeri petitioned the High Court to compel the prison to allow him to smoke.

Three judges addressed the case with all seriousness, but rejected his request based on the prison doctors’ recommendation. If it turns out ingesting the marijuana does not help him, prison services will have to find an alternate way of administrating the drug, the judges wrote in their ruling on Wednesday.

“We hope the cookies provide the right effect,” they stated.