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Friday, 11/17/2017 1:44:02 AM

Friday, November 17, 2017 1:44:02 AM

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Here is another explanation of why Israel, as strange as it is, became the epicenter of research into Cannabis:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2017-04-11/israel-is-a-global-leader-in-marijuana-research

Although dated by Spring2017, still holds true.
I SUSPECT, it's because started by Dr. Raphael Mechoulam. In case you don't know who he was (and I didn't know until watching a show on PBS, back when I lived on Long Island NY in 2012), he was THAT scientist who first discovered key chemicals which make you feel the way that Marijuana does, even Wikipedia has it now:
P.S. There's some weird affinity between Jamaican & in general rastafarian reggae artists and this. It always amused me how 2 totally disparate groups could converge on one topic of Cannabis.

Anyways, here's a bit of info of who was Dr. Raphael:
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An organic chemist and professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Dr. Mechoulam is best known for his work (together with Y. Gaoni) in the isolation, structure elucidation and total synthesis of ?9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the main active principle of cannabis and for the isolation and the identification of the endogenous cannabinoids anandamide from the brain and 2-arachidonoyl glycerol (2-AG) from peripheral organs together with his students, postdocs and collaborators
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