
Cannabis for cancer, epilepsy?
Hundreds of delegates from all over the world descend on Israel for the annual CannaTech conference, founded to identify and incubate world-class solutions for the cannabis industry.
Brian has been a journalist and high-tech entrepreneur for over 25 years. He combines this expertise for ISRAEL21c as he writes about hot new local startups, pharmaceutical advances, scientific discoveries, culture, the arts and daily life in Israel. He loves hiking the country with his family (and blogging about it). Originally from California, he lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children.

Hundreds of delegates from all over the world descend on Israel for the annual CannaTech conference, founded to identify and incubate world-class solutions for the cannabis industry.

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