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Cannabis is found growing in Israel's immigrant transit camps

Cannabis was discovered growing in gardens in transit camps across Israel, reportedly for home use by new immigrants from Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Morocco. The discovery fed the stereotype of immigrants from Muslim countries as hashish users.[1]

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References

  1. 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 cultivation in the transit camps) · ISBN 9781503613928

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