The police set up a canine unit trained to track down hashish by smell; Israel was apparently the first country to use sniffer dogs to find drugs. For its first years the unit had one dog, Lassie, and a second was trained by 1960.[1]
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References
- Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and IsraelHaggai Ram · Stanford University Press · 2020 · Chapter 6, Mizrahim and the Perils of Hashish Smoking (section on drug enforcement) · ISBN 9781503613928
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