I'll write more soon. meanwhile, I found an old archive of an American Oleh living in Nachlaot in the late eighties, growing grass and toasting it on the stove, and introducing the not-quite-legendary "Hatzbani Green" strain to the north
http://www.well.com/~ari/writing/bivas.html
Historical curiousities abound: we are not the first to walk these steps.
yeah it's cool that growing herb in Jerusalem is so easy, but it sucks when someone just comes and steals your plants right out of the earth.
ReplyDeletesometimes i'll just google words like "marijuana" and "jewish" is how I got this piece. The rest, i guess it's just from walking around Jerusalem with questions. for years.
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