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TexasTowelie

(112,101 posts)
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 02:34 AM Feb 2018

Israeli pot agronomist working in Nevada ordered out of US

Esther Abta believes her husband’s green card denial was an honest mistake.

“I have to say that this is part of God’s plan and this has only been an opportunity to increase my emunah,” the 36-year-old orthodox Jewish woman said recently at a Las Vegas coffee shop, using the Hebrew word for “faith.”

Mistake or not, Abta’s Israeli husband, Shimon, is now living with family back in his homeland after being deemed a drug trafficker for his work as an agronomist observing Nevada’s medical marijuana industry. And her emunah is being further tested as she waits to see if U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will grant him re-entry to the U.S.

Shimon said he feels like a victim caught between federal law, which classifies marijuana as an illegal Schedule 1 drug, and Nevada law, which has legalized the drug for medicinal and recreational use.

Read more: https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/israeli-pot-agronomist-working-in-nevada-ordered-out-of-us/

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Israeli pot agronomist working in Nevada ordered out of US (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2018 OP
Too many ads on the LVRJ site.... cbreezen Feb 2018 #1
I use Ad-block software so I don't deal with that so much. TexasTowelie Feb 2018 #2
Having lived in Nevada back in the day... cbreezen Feb 2018 #3

TexasTowelie

(112,101 posts)
2. I use Ad-block software so I don't deal with that so much.
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 03:46 AM
Feb 2018

It's the sites that have video on auto-play that are the most irritating to me, particularly Gannett news sites since they eat up RAM quickly and I have to restart my browser.

Unfortunately there are only five sites in Nevada that have daily news coverage so the LVRJ is as good as it gets which isn't saying much.

cbreezen

(694 posts)
3. Having lived in Nevada back in the day...
Mon Feb 12, 2018, 04:39 AM
Feb 2018

I feel pretty confident in saying you are correct in a lack of good source material.

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