Dozens of pot packets rained down from the sky in Tel Aviv — sending folks running into the street to snag them and leading to two arrests.
Two men who allegedly operated the weed-wielding quadcopter were likely affiliated with a pro-legalization group that promised unleash the gift of ganja.
“The time has come,” the group, Green Drone, said on its web messaging channel. “Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s the Green Drone sending you free cannabis from the skies.”
What’s the legal status of weed in Israel? Wiki made it look like it’s unofficially-officially decriminalized, but the cops still bust people because they can.
It’s basically, “You can pee in the pool, just don’t do it off the diving board”. Nobody cares what people do in their own home, but if you light one up in public, you’ll get a fine (and if you get caught using in public again, you’ll get a bigger fine; from your fourth offence onward you run the risk of a short prison sentence). As far as I know, there isn’t any increased enforcement against minorities like in the U.S. - if anything, Arabs are prosecuted less than Jews, because it’s “part of their culture”. The cops still go after dealers, growers and smugglers, but I get the impression it’s not a top priority for them.
In short, we don’t really have a war on drugs. We make due with actual wars.
In general, there’s no reason for plant-based foods not to be kosher. You’d need an inspection from a rabbi to make it official, but he’d pretty much just be verifying that it is indeed plant-based.
I suppose you could make non-kosher edibles by making them with pork fat or something, but there’d be no reason to.
the one thing dad loved about the desert combat classes he took in the middle east was "hash "was legal oe tolerated
He had a few “lost weekends” when he’d start of friday off base and crawl back on monday and not being able to say what he did exactly after 9 pm friday
"(A) study commissioned by Israel’s Courts administration and Israel Bar Association finds that 48.3 percent of Arabs receive custodial sentences for certain crimes, compared to 33.6 percent of Jews.
Arab Israelis who have been charged with certain types of crime are more likely than their Jewish counterparts to be convicted, and once convicted they are more likely to be sent to prison, and for a longer time. These disparities were found in a recent statistical study commissioned by Israels Courts Administration and the Israel Bar Association.
The study found that 48.3 percent of Arabs who were convicted of violence, property crimes or drug or weapons offenses received custodial sentences, compared to 33.6 percent for Jews. The average prison sentence was nine and a half months for Jews and 14 months for Arabs.
In their summary the researchers wrote that the principal finding was that Israels justice system tends to deal more harshly with Arab defendants when it comes to conviction rates, sentencing rates and the length of the sentences."
While there certainly is institutional racism against Arabs in Israel, I was talking about marijuana, specifically, which isn’t mentioned in your quote.
“As far as I know, there isn’t any increased enforcement against minorities (for drug offenses in Israel) like in the U.S. - if anything, Arabs are prosecuted less than Jews, because it’s “part of their culture”.”
A study co-sponsored by an Israeli government agency found that:
“48.3 percent of Arabs who were convicted of violence, property crimes or drug or weapons offenses received custodial sentences, compared to 33.6 percent for Jews. The average prison sentence was nine and a half months for Jews and 14 months for Arabs.” (bolding added).
The U.S. may have a way to go in this regard (was that even relevant to this thread?), but it doesn’t look like Israelis have license to throw stones, given their own glass houses.