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Israel: Marijuana and the Wasted Vote

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 03/23/2015 - 08:00

I voted Green Leaf. Aleh Yarok. I’m not ashamed to admit it.

Dude, where’s my vote?

47,000 other Israelis also voted for Green Leaf. This is the most votes the party has ever received since it’s inception in the late 1990’s, according to a recent Facebook post by Oren Leibovich the party’s chairman.

This outstanding, almost unbelievable accomplishment was achieved during one of Israel’s ugliest election, full of nationalistic fear-mongering, racism and deception. More importantly, it is on the heels of legislation raising the threshold for making it into the Knesset to 3.25%. With no threshold, for argument’s sake, Green Leaf would have had one representative make it into the Knesset.

Aleh Yarok ran a sleek, positive, out-of-the-box campaign that highlighted the need to address decriminalization and legalization for the sake of treating patients who are in pain. Their number 2 on the list was a viable candidate for the Ministry of Health,...

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http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/marijuana-and-the-wasted-vote-legalizations-darkest-hour-in-israel/

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