May 6, 2017
8:05 am

Filmmaker and photographer Ezra Soiferman at Tweed's Smiths Falls, Ontario facility (Bilal Rizack, ©Perpetuum Productions)

As artist-in-residence at a cannabis company, a photographer’s creativity is sparked

At Tweed, Jewish Canadian Ezra Soiferman communes with plants for his ‘macrojuana’ shots

By Renee Ghert-Zand

April 26, 2017
7:26 pm

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan speaks during a conference, March 28, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Minister insists PTSD-struck veteran be jailed for cannabis use

Rejecting appeal by fellow Likud MK over 7-month prison sentence, Gilad Erdan says defendant has a long criminal history

By Stuart Winer

March 26, 2017
6:43 am

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (R) speaks with MK David Bitan at the Knesset, January 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Law and behold: The legislation that survived winter in the Knesset

As MKs go on break, here are the bills that passed – from legalizing outposts to lengthening maternity leave – and those that died before they hit the floor

By Marissa Newman

February 18, 2017
4:42 pm

Protesters wearing white sheets shout at Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as he arrives for his confirmation hearing to be the US attorney general on January 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Alt-right website tries to weed out Jews from drug reform

A neo-Nazi ‘news’ outlet — the US’s top hate site — claims that ‘kikes’ are behind attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his ardent anti-drug policies

By Madison Margolin

February 5, 2017
12:18 pm

Thousands attend a rally in support of legalizing marijuana, held in Rabin square, Tel Aviv, February 4, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Thousands call for full weed legalization at Tel Aviv rally

Knesset members join others urging public security minister to go beyond decriminalizing cannabis use

By Stuart Winer

January 28, 2017
12:37 pm

Israel Cannabis: Under the Hood

As Israel moves to decriminalize marijuana, Israeli industry will stay focused on the plant’s medical uses

By Clifton Flack

January 27, 2017
3:57 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu adresses the Knesset during a Q&A session, January 25, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Illegal cigars, legal weed

As pundits dissect probes against the PM, potheads rejoice over the expected decriminalization of marijuana

By Adiv Sterman

January 26, 2017
4:14 pm

Israel cannabis: under the hood

From our blogs As individual states across the US loosen their grip on decades of cannabis prohibition, the world has a front row seat to the birth, and the inevitable growing pains, of a new multi-billion dollar cannabis economy

By Clifton Flack

December 20, 2016
10:29 pm

Ship sails 450 kg of cannabis to Tel Aviv to fight drug ban

Protesters claim marijuana on board ‘Erdalena’ is intended for medicinal use and distribution among the sick

By Times of Israel staff

November 9, 2016
10:21 am

Different strains of marijuana are displayed during a rally in support of Prop 64 at Sparc Dispensary, San Francisco. California November 8, 2016. (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

3 states okay recreational pot; 2 toughen gun control

California, Massachusetts and Nevada vote to legalize marijuana use; Nebraska reinstates the death penalty

By David Crary

November 2, 2016
2:34 am

(Top left, clockwise, marijuana photo: Richard Lautens/Toronto Star via Getty Images; prison photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images; cigarettes photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images; guns photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

The Jewish vote: Pot, guns, justice and other ballot measures worth noting

Amid the cacophony of calls in the presidential campaign to build walls, end sexual assault, and ‘lock her up’ are a host of issues of compelling Jewish interest

By Ron Kampeas

September 12, 2016
11:28 am

A worker tends to cannabis plants at a growing facility for the Tikun Olam company near the northern Israeli city of Safed (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

In Israel, booming medical marijuana looks to conquer new highs

While research into health benefits of cannabis has zipped along thanks in part to the local culture of ‘protekzia,’ a pioneer in the field says hundreds of uses of the plant are waiting to be discovered, and a marketer wants to slip it into milk so everyone can have a daily dose

By Melanie Lidman and Shoshanna Solomon

August 28, 2016
11:49 pm

An Israeli agricultural engineer inspects marijuana plants at the BOL (Breath Of Life) Pharma greenhouse in the country's second-largest medical cannabis plantation, near Kfar Pines in northern Israel, on March 9, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israel to begin exporting marijuana soon — minister

Agriculture Ministry setting up facilities for research, development of growing cannabis for medical treatment