It started with a meeting at the police station followed by a smelly bus trip, as the late Dr. Raphael Mechoulam recalled years later. The future “father of cannabis research” had just scored some hashish – from Tel Aviv police, of all sources – when he boarded a bus to return to the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, where he’d been researching steroids. With the recommendation of his Institute overseer, Mechoulam had turned to the police for a supply of hash from cannabis seized in drug busts to use in his initial 1960s research. He packed up the hash for a return bus trip to the Institute.
Source: HempToday®