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How Cannabis Became Illegal in Israel in the First Place

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Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 08:45

Cannabis has been illegal in the Holy Land longer than nearly any other place on the globe, and it is all because of a particular British gentlemen and an Egyptian doctor.

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) announced Thursday that he supports the decriminalization of cannabis in Israel. If Erdan's initiative is adopted by the government it will end a long history of criminal prohibition of the drug, especially in light of the fact that cannabis has been illegal here longer than nearly any other place on the globe.

The relatively early date of cannabis prohibition in the Holy Land is coincidental and is mostly due to the personal history of a particular British gentleman by the name of Ronald Storrs.  

When Storrs graduated from Cambridge he joined the British Colonial Office, and was subsequently sent to Egypt in 1904. His first assignment in Egypt was that of a...

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