It should not come as a surprise that the Bible mentions weed. In fact, there are archeological records that support the medical use of cannabis even before the era of Jesus Christ. The term Christ means “Messiah” or the anointed one. To anoint a person, a type of holy anointing oil was used. In the […]
Category: Middle East
4 facts that you didn’t know about the weed in Israel and its recent decriminalization
Yesterday, like out of the blue, the good news appeared in the media around the world: Israel decriminalizes the use of cannabis. For the past four years, many states, especially in the West, are beginning to decriminalize cannabis use, or supporting the medicinal and therapeutic use of cannabis. Israel, although it has not legalized cannabis, […]
British DJ held in Dubai for cannabis possession
Just a few weeks ago we have spoken about Dubai, and now we have to do it again. And again, it’s not a good news. Raymond Bingham, AKA Dj Grooverider was expected to do a gig in a club in Dubai last november 23. Stopped by the douane at his arrival, the cops found a […]
Dubai: drugs laws are not the same for everybody
The Emirate of Dubai is recently at the center of discussions about its drug policy. In particular, news and governments of several western countries (French, USA, Italy etc) had to speak about Dubai because several co-citizens has been sentences to several years of prison for possessions of ridiculous amount of hashish or marijuana. So, a 27 […]
In Lebanon the hashish production has restarted.
Lebanon wasa well known hashsh producer till a few decades ago. Lebanon Red and Lebanon Gold were words associated to something really high quality. The production reached its top, in quantity and quality, in the period 1975-1990, during the civil war. Hashish production is illegal in Lebanon, and each year since the early 1990s police backed […]
