Jerusalem: The seventh annual 'International Marijuana Day' would be celebrated in Tel Aviv tomorrow, protesting the "criminalisation" of the drug and asserting the "rights" of its users.

The event at Hayarkon Park marked by a picnic and trance party, will feature nine top DJ's specialising in reggae, hiphop, trance, and ragamuffin music, organisers said.

Started by the New York based organisation 'Cures, Not Wars' in 1998, and picked up by Nimrod Kerrett, head of the local Legalise chapter, the same year, the Israeli version is now hosted by a coalition of drug reform organisations.

Legalisation of cannabis is not possible as Israel is a signatory to a UN convention in aid of the ongoing international war against drug trafficking.

The fight is to recognise the right of hundreds of thousands of Israeli cannabis users, the organisers were quoted as saying by the Jerusalem Post daily.

"The most important and pressing issue at the moment," Goldblatt said, "is that of medical marijuana. It is allowed, but due to heavy bureaucracy, people in terrible pain with nausea and vomiting often have a long wait before they are legally entitled to relief."

Police usually do not intervene in the event.