Orin Penso

34 years old, Orin has recovered three times from cancers before. Starting with breast cancer which she has been cured from, but from the chemo-therapy she was diagnosed with blood cancer (leukemia) which caused her to go though bone-marrow transplant that went wrong and ever since her body attacks the implant in the syndrome called GvHD. Cannabis helps Orin to function regularly in her daily life. She owns her own perfume label where she is doing all of the brewing and marketing of her products.

Ron Tzafrir

Ron has a brain tumor that no conventional treatment could have cured. Since the day he got the news that all he has left to do is wait for his death, he started to use large doses of concentrated Cannabis oil on a daily basis. In a miraculous way, by doing so, and with no other treatment at hand the tumor in his brain started shrink, until it disappeared completely. The new reform reduced Ron's dosage of Cannabis by more than half, leaving him to face his brain tumor once more.

Neta Kovalsky

I know Neta for several years already. I have come to meet her with her work in the “Shades of Purple” organization she has formed with other Fibromialgia patients. For many, Neta has been the inspiration of using Cannabis to treat Fibromialgia. The chronic pain, sleepless nights and depression that usually accompanies this syndrome can be managed with the right dose of certain strains of Cannabis, and trust Neta she knows how to achieve this relief. Nowadays, she uses her knowledge to guide and support other Fibromialgia patients to reach a relief using Cannabis.

Michey Chen

Mickey is known for making RSO (Rick Simpson Oil) concentrates from Cannabis inflorescence that patients with government license for using it give him. Mickey, in his special-underground clinic, turns the Cannabis flowers to concentrated oil for them to treat their disease. Mickey himself uses Cannabis flowers to treat his PTSD condition that he developed during his military service in the IDF.

Yedidya and Chana Kohler

Yedidya is 7 years old child with severe epilepsy, almost constantly in a seizure state. His seizures started in the first year as a baby and no conventional medicine has succeeded to normalize his condition. Only after his mother, Chana, conducted a thorough research about Cannabis potential in treating Epilepsy she started to give him small cannabis oil doses and the affect was immediate. Yedidya stopped his seizures and in time returned to communicate with his surrounding. Yedidya is one of the many children that suffers from the lack in strains that the reform has brought.
Yedidya, Chana and her family has left Israel before 2019 ended in order to pursue a better treatment using Cannabis legally in the US.

Shalma Or

Shalma is struggling with breast cancer. The tumor has already started to send its nodes to other parts of the body and the pain is unbearable. That is, until Shalma receives her dose of concentrate Cannabis oil. Merely after few minutes the pain is gone, muscles relax as she closes her eyes and smile. Her bliss is present and shines to all others that surrounds her, as she gives strength to all others.
Shalma has died in March, 2020. May she rest in peace.

Irit Avisar

Irit is multi-talent. I know her as a nurse, but she is also a lawyer and a mediator. Irit is co-founder and chair-woman of the Isreali Medical Cannabis Nurses Association. Suffering from Fibromialgia and Multiple Sclerosis (MS), finding her cure in the Cannabis plant, she regularly hold courses for nurses in hospitals and clinics across the country in order to bring the message that Cannabis can be used to treat many different diseases. Her knowledge and passion in Medical Cannabis treatment, finding the right strain and dose for a patient, is unparalleled and has helped dozens of patients already.

Shlomo Shoshan

I met Shlomo in a hostel for cancer patients. Shlomo suffered from a tumor in his brain and no conventional treatment has been of any help to him. Shlomo used Cannabis to treat the side effects of the tumor in his brain and deal with the pain that accompanies the cancer.
Shlomo died from his cancer on November, 2019. May he rest in peace.

Hagit Yagoda

Hagit recovered from Lymphoma. Using Cannabis in many forms of consumption, ever since 1987 and considered by many one of the pioneers in the country with the use of Cannabis medically, as a form of cure. Many come to Hagit for aid, she explains and teach about the benefits of using Cannabis in cancer treatment and guide patients on how to make concentrated oil on their own.

Sylvia Sheinbaum

Pro-cannabis activist and patient. Holds a video-blog called in Hebrew "Hashish Lakashish" which translates to "Cannabis for the elderly".
In her blog Sylvia speaks with other activists and care-takers about the benefits of using Cannabis with the elderly and older age.

Oudi Israeli

Oudi is a chef, and also the mental-manager of a hostel dedicated to people who are looking for cure with Cannabis. Patients living with Oudi in his house use Cannabis mainly in its concentrated form (RSO cannabis oil), stay on a healthy vegan diet and go through special empowering workshops in order to increase their health and metal status to reach cure for their disease.

Shiri Sinai

I met Shiri in almost of all the protests I’ve attend against the Medical Cannabis reform. When it comes to patients rights, Shiri is there. Shiri has cured herself for breast cancer using Cannabis and concentrated Cannabis Oil, and she is proud of it. An activist, a lecturer and an inspiration for many cancer patients who fail conservative treatment or for those who take the road of using Cannabis for a cure as their first try to heal.

Dassi - Miri Pardo

Dassi has come to Israel from New-York in order to get the best treatment for her disease. Dassi has been diagnosed with SLL blood cancer several years ago. In New-York she was a respectful professor in college, but ever since she’s been diagnosed her life has been turned up-side-down. Now she is living in Pardes Hanna in central Israel, preparing Cannabis oil by herself in order to treat her condition, and it is working wonderfully.

Tomer Tal

Tomer, like many young Israelis, served in the IDF. During one of his reserve service, he was ordered to go to Jenin in the West Bank where had been caught in fire with his unit, leaving him scarred for life. But more than the physical injuries, his suffer is mainly from PTSD that he carries ever since that day in April of 2002 (known as the Battle of Jenin in the second Intifada). Tomer had tried several treatments to help his nightmares and anxiety, but with no ease. It was only when he, for the first time in his life, tried Cannabis, he could regain his mental health.