February 10, 2015
3:17 am

In 2012, David Bronner of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps locked himself in a steel cage with a dozen industrial hemp plants in front of the White House. (Courtesy of Dr. Bronner's)

Will marijuana legalization light up Jewish advocacy?

Ending marijuana prohibition belongs on the progressive Jewish agenda, alongside marriage equality and immigration reform, says group Le’Or

By Rebecca Spence

December 28, 2014
10:45 pm

Jewish Home candidate Yinon Magal (left) in an interview with Channel 2's Oded Ben-Ami (right), on December 28, 2014 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Jewish Home MK-to-be got high ‘recently’

Knesset hopeful Yinon Magal confesses to smoking marijuana, hints he may have tried psychedelics during a trip in India

By Justin Jalil

October 7, 2014
4:46 pm

Swaths of cannabis near the village of Ketama in the Village of Bni Hmed in the Ketama Abdelghaya valley, northern Morocco, on September 14, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

Breaking taboo, Morocco may okay pot in nod to struggling farmers

Country’s Rif valley is the world’s leading producer of hashish, but residents and growers live in poverty and fear of the law

By Paul Schemm and SMAIL BELLAOUALLI

December 8, 2013
3:29 pm

In this Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 photograph, Israeli women work at the Tikkun Olam medical cannabis farm near the northern Israeli city of Safed, Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Ministers postpone debate on medical marijuana bills

Legislation sponsored by Likud MK Moshe Feiglin, which would allow all family doctors to prescribe cannabis, to be discussed next week

By Lazar Berman

November 22, 2013
4:11 am

Likud Knesset member Moshe Feiglin (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Cool on Palestinians, hot for pot

How does the Likud’s Moshe Feiglin, who would strip Israeli Arabs of some rights and staunchly opposes a Palestinian state, explain his liberal approach to marijuana use?

By Ben Sales

October 2, 2013
5:51 pm

Jerusalem protesters call for the legalization of marijuana in Israel in 2010 ( photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

A legal high is a cheaper high

Study shows Israel could lower the cost of marijuana by 40% and swell its coffers by over NIS 1 billion if it legalizes the drug

By Spencer Ho

April 25, 2013
9:50 am

Medicinal marijuana in the pre-cookie stage (photo credit: Abir Sultan/ Flash 90)

A Jewish mom-and-pot business

A higher power The Jewish Week: Rabbi Jeffrey and Stephanie Kahn of Washington, DC, establish one of the East Coast’s first legal medical marijuana dispensaries

January 13, 2013
4:51 pm

A man dresses as a marijuana leaf during a gathering in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park to mark 'International Marijuana Day' on April 20. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Don’t forget your greens

Survey shows majority of Israelis cannot differentiate between the Green and the Green Leaf political parties

By Asher Zeiger

Topic: legalized marijuana