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Hebrew University Prof. Raphael Mechoulam, known as the "father" of the medical cannabis industry, will lead a team investigating the benefits of non-psychoactive cannabis components for treating asthma and other respiratory conditions. In 1964, Mechoulam, was the first scientist to...

If the United States stopped viewing CBD as an illegal substance, it would unlock the marijuana compound's immense potential as medicine, the "father of cannabis research" said Saturday. Raphael Mechoulam, a Hebrew University professor and organic chemist with six decades of research on...

As many Americans approach November 4 with a sense of dread, facing the fact that either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be the next president, much more hopeful things will be going on that day. Residents in at least nine states will be voting on ballot initiatives to legalize recreational...

As many Americans approach November 4 with a sense of dread, facing the fact that either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be the next president, much more hopeful things will be going on that day. Residents in at least nine states will be voting on ballot initiatives to legalize recreational...

In 1964, Raphael Mechoulam rode a public bus from Tel Aviv back to his lab at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot while holding 11 pounds of Lebanese hashish in a plastic bag. He received his giant stash–the first of many over the next 50 years–from a police officer who had...

In 1964, Raphael Mechoulam rode a public bus from Tel Aviv back to his lab at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot while holding 11 pounds of Lebanese hashish in a plastic bag. He received his giant stash–the first of many over the next 50 years–from a police officer who had...