A shipment of cannabis seeds was exported from Israel for the first time ever. The shipment headed to the United States on Tuesday night was an "experimental and initial" shipment, Israel's Ministry of Agriculture said Wednesday in a statement.
This comes almost a year after the Israeli government changed the medical cannabis shipping laws to allow the export of cannabis seeds, beginning last August.
"Israel has the ability to leave its mark on the industry and be among the world leaders," Israel's Minister of Agriculture, Oded Forer, said in a statement.
"The export of cannabis seeds invites us to expand the diversity of Israeli agricultural exports and strengthens local agriculture," Forer said. It also "exploits Israel's relative advantage in an area that is still considered preliminary," he added.
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