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Channel 10 Executive Producer Avi Barzilai on Wednesday repulsed the idea of broadcasting a tape of the Pulsa Denura ceremony against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, calling the rite "a despicable ceremony by despicable people bought and broadcast by individuals who pretend to be journalists and would do anything in order to raise their ratings." "As a senior journalist," he told Army Radio, "I don't regard them as members of the profession," Barzilai continued. Israel Segal - chief editor of Channel 2's current affairs program Mishal Ham that acquired the tape for $5,000 - claimed that the moment the tape became...

A significant increase in cannabis smoking is leading to serious mental health problems among the young, two leading drugs experts said yesterday. They warned that the effect of cannabis on the body was equal to cigarettes but was "far more dangerous" on the mind. Prof John Henry, a toxicologist at Imperial College, London, said: "Regular cannabis smokers develop mental illness. "There is a four-fold increase in schizophrenia and there is a four-fold increase in major depression and that is something very, very different to what cigarettes do to you." Dr Ian Oliver, independent consultant to the UN Drug Control Programme,...