I'm Aiton Weinstein.

And I'm Naor Menninger.

And you're listening to Two Nice Jewish Boys.

Close to 60 years ago in the early 1960s, marijuana, aka cannabis, wasn't exactly the friendly

substance it is today.

In pretty much every developed country, recreational use of the drug was totally illegal and medical

research was limited. So as a junior faculty member of the Whiteman Institute of

Science in Rehovot Israel, Dr. Rafael Mashulam had to jump through a few hoops to get

his hands on a sample for his research. Luckily for Dr. Mashulam had to jump through a few hoops to get his hands on a sample for his research.

Luckily for Dr. Mishulam, the director of the Weizmann Institute had an old army buddy in an opportune place,

the head of the investigative branch of the National Police.

Dr. Mishulam reached out to him and was given five kilos of seized Lebanese hashish.

This sample allowed Dr. Mishulam and his research partners to discover Kenebidiyal in 1963 and THC the following year.

In 2000, Dr. Mishulam was awarded the Israel Prize, the country's most prestigious award for scientific achievement, and today

he continues his research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. We are super thrilled to be talking

to Professor Rafael Mushulam today about cannabis, about his life, and about his career.

Today's episode is sponsored by our friends over at the Hamburg University of Technology who are organizing the first international robotics camp in Germany for girls.

Now, there are a few experiences in life that you can really point at and say, this changed my life.

But that's what you're going to get if you sign up for the International Robotics Camp in Germany.

For the first week of July, they're hosting high school girls from around the world in Hamburg to take part in a program that will get them started on building their dreams.

For real, guys, the program is modeled on Google Israel's mentor IT program,

so the girls get the chance to build and program robots and listen to talks by leading

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