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- In an attempt to legalize cannabis, marijuana activists in Israel drop bags of marijuana from a drone over Tel Aviv.
- Hundreds of bags of weed were reportedly dropped on Thursday, prompting a mad rush by onlookers to stock up.
- The giveaway was reportedly orchestrated by a Telegram group called Green Drone.
Cannabis rained down from high above this week in Tel Aviv, Israel’s liberal center, when legalization activists used a drone to launch bags of the drug into the air, causing delight on the ground.
“Green Drone” had previously announced a launch of hundreds of bags, each containing two grams (just under a tenth of an ounce), in Tel Aviv’s central Rabin Square.
“It is time, dear friends. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is Green Drone distributing free cannabis from the sky,” he said on his Telegram channel, quoted in Israeli media.
He urged his followers to gather to obtain more drops of the drug each week in different places in Israel, although police arrested two suspected drone operators on Saturday.
Israeli smokers often use encrypted messaging apps to order marijuana deliveries, although the drug is illegal in the Jewish state.
The medical use of cannabis is allowed, but the Israeli police frequently boast of drug raids.
Researchers said in June that ancient Israelis were highly likely to have used cannabis in religious rituals, after researchers found traces of the drug at a religious site in Israel.
