If any figure of the marijuana movement deserves a huge portrait painted of them, it’s probably cannabis research pioneer Dr. Raphael Mechoulam.
Even more fitting? A portrait “painted” using only herbs.
Last month, at an international medical cannabis conference in Tel-Aviv, local artist Roy Znaty did just that. His masterpiece, which took over six hours to finish, was “drawn” using Wingman, a unique herbal blend developed in Israel specifically to smoke with cannabis.
With 85 percent of Israeli medical cannabis patients consuming their cannabis with tobacco, Wingman was created as an alternative, non-addictive, terpene-infused mixer, and Mechoulam’s studies—which first described a possible synergistic effect between cannabinoids, terpenes and other compounds—provided the basis for Wingman’s development.
Mechoulam—often referred to as the “Father of THC,” after being the first to isolate the THC molecule back in 1964—is a world-renowned scientist in the medical cannabis industry who has spent four decades studying and observing the positive effects of cannabis on many of the most pressing medical conditions of our time.
Znaty’s portrait of the scientist is intended to be sold at an auction, with all profits to be donated to medical cannabis clinical research.
