33: Milk, Honey and Sweet Mary Jane
Israel Story
Israel Story
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Cannabis in the Holy Land is clearly a booming business. Through the unlikely story of Amos Silver, the Israeli 'Green Giant,' we take a deep dive into the world of Telegrass, the hot application that has made buying weed as easy as ordering a pizza.
According to a recent study conducted by the Israeli Anti-Drug Authority, the Holy Land might as well be rebranded as a ‘Weedtopia.’ More than a quarter of adults aged 18 to 40 reported having used marijuana within the last month. This stat, says the Authority’s chief scientist Prof. Yossi Harel-Fisch, places Israel among the countries with the highest rate of pot smokers in the world. In this episode, we chugged along the Hudson Valley and – in Poughkeepsie, New York, of all places – met up with the one man who is most committed to making that number even higher.
The original music in this episode was composed and performed by Ari Wenig, with help from Yochai Maital and Ruth Danon. Additional music by Boom Pam, Meir Ariel, Michael Swissa, Michael Greilsammer, and Kevin MacLeod. The episode was edited by Shai Satran with help from Julie Subrin.
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app. |
| 0:28.0 | Hey guys it's Mishi. It's been almost six weeks since you last heard from us, and the reason is that that entire time I've been in the ICU with my Abba, my dad David, who you guys have all met a few times here on our show. |
| 0:37.2 | He's been through a really rough time which is ongoing, so I've been sort of out of the podcast loop. |
| 0:44.0 | But if you can send some good energy my dad's way, |
| 0:47.0 | maybe say a prayer or just think a thought, |
| 0:50.0 | I hope I'll soon be able to get back into the swing of things and tell you that he's back home and that all is well. |
| 0:57.0 | Anyway, just because life is so crazy and vacillates between such extremes, here we go. |
| 1:03.7 | Testing, testing, ch ch ch chichich, I think that was good. |
| 1:07.0 | Can I just say like you said I would forget it that that I was being recorded and I wouldn't feel like I was being recorded and I'm not going to |
| 1:13.2 | forget this. It's a big microphone in my face and you've got headphones on. |
| 1:16.3 | A few months ago we heard there was a new Israeli app that makes buying |
| 1:20.8 | weed as easy as ordering a pizza. |
| 1:23.7 | So while we tried to figure out how this app was developed |
| 1:27.2 | and who was behind it, |
| 1:28.8 | we asked our producer Zev Levi to test it out. This is Zev Levi seeing if telegraph works. The app is called |
| 1:39.0 | Telegrass. T-E-L-E-O-K-K-E-O-K-E-O-K-E-S, and Zev enlisted his friend Hodaya, and together they recorded what was a very new experience for them. |
| 1:55.4 | We don't know what we're doing. |
| 1:56.8 | Cool. |
| 1:57.8 | His assignment was to evaluate the app's user-friendliness. |
| 2:01.6 | To test how easy it would be for a complete novice, a complete first-timer, |
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