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Rabbis split over cannabis under Jewish law

Rabbi Hagai Bar Giora of the Kashrut Department said in a Cannabis magazine interview that smoking cannabis was no problem whatsoever, while Orthodox rabbi Moshe Feinstein ruled it out under Jewish law for its harmful effects. Orthodox rabbi Efraim Zalmanovich allowed medical but not recreational cannabis.[1]

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References

  1. Wikipedia — Cannabis in Israel (citing Cannabis magazine; Jacobs 1993; Earleywine 2007; Rosner 2001)archived

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