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In Israel, the proceeds from the sale of medical cannabis could exceed postuplenieya from the sale of natural gas

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Natural gas reserves along the coast of Israel are considered to be one of the fundamentals of the economy. At the same time, Israeli experts believe that the profitability of the pharmacological use of psychoactive cannabis may exceed the hypothetical income from the export of natural gas from gas-bearing coastal shelf.

During the conference, initiated by the Association of Appraisers damages Israel always stressed that the country's farmers have to pay attention to the market psychoactive hemp. It is this branch of agriculture in the coming decades can bring significant profits to farmers in Israel.

According to the chairman of the Association of Doron Khavkin volume of only one market psychoactive hemp in the United States currently has about $ 35 billion a year, annually increasing by tens of percent. "Can we give up the revenue from this market?" Asks Mr. Hawking. He argues that the government should help farmers Arava region, declaring the land included in a closed area, specializing in the cultivation of export-oriented products - psychoactive hemp. According to the statement D.Havkina, about 6,000 acres of land in the region are waiting for just such a support from the state.

According to Dr. Tamir Gabota, director general of the association on cultivation of medical cannabis, cannabis is to become the biggest beneficiary of the Israeli economy if the public authorities will establish an appropriate framework for this. In accordance with the statement of Mr. Gabota, "The economic growth potential of medical cannabis exceeds the capacity of natural gas production in the coastal shelf of Israel." According to him, the government should recognize that psychoactive hemp is extremely popular raw material used in the pharmaceutical industry.

According one of the world's largest auditing and consulting company Ernst & Young Israel, the cost of gas reserves of about $ 52 billion, exports of agricultural products in 2012 was $ 2.4 billion. At the same time, the market value of Israeli exports of medical cannabis has far more than the financial income from the sale of orange and ornamental flowers, which brought the main export earnings into the country in 2014.

In accordance with the statement of Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg (Chairman of the Knesset Committee for the drugs and the abuse of alcohol), "psychoactive hemp is widely used as a medicine, so we have to look at it as a very cost-effective crops and foster the development konoplevodstva in Israel as well as the export sales of medical cannabis consumers around the world. "

If Israel in the very near future will not take steps towards regulatory supply-psychoactive hemp, the country "missed landing on the ship, set sail for the huge financial dividends, waiting for the market of pharmaceutical products," warns one of the leaders of the Association of Appraisers losses Israeli Amos Regev. "Psychoactive hemp, is the path to a better future. The cultivation of psychoactive cannabis would lead to the flourishing of agriculture, reduction of crime, as well as the possibility of providing patients with better quality of life. If Israel does not do it, someone else will do it for us."