Israeli Army to Allow Off-duty Soldiers to Smoke Marijuana Up to Five Times
Israel's Military Prosecutor plans to revise its policy on marijuana use, and permit IDF soldiers to smoke weed up to five times, as long as they're off-duty when they do so, Haaretz has learned.
The new policy is expected to take effect in early 2017.
Current orders call to court martial any soldier caught possessing any narcotics, marijuana included, even in a civilian setting.
Any soldier convicted of such an offense is also tarred with a criminal notice in his or her records which hurt their chances of getting a job in Israel after their discharge from duty.
The revised policy would still permit a soldier to be charged for smoking marijuana or hashish even off duty, but provides an easy loophole to get the case closed or the charges dropped.
The accused soldier would have to provide urine samples once a month under a year's probationary period,...
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