Like with Israel’s newly producing natural gas fields, licensing & taxing locally grown cannabis could be a boon for the gov’t coffers.
By NIV ELIS
While Israel is busy sorting out regulation for the natural gas reserves off its shores, a development considered a boon for Israel’s economy, could it be missing an even bigger opportunity in the field of medical cannabis?
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A worker carries sacks of newly harvested cannabis plants at a plantation near Nazareth. – Photo: REUTERS