Is marijuana kosher for Pessah?
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- Is marijuana kosher for Pessah?
- Cannabis linked to lung cancer risk
- Urban Marijuana Farmers Spark Dutch Crackdown on Power Thefts
- Beach police discover city’s largest marijuana growing operation.
- Medical marijuana bill stirs debate: Supporters argue measure…
- Grand Terrace marijuana dispensary ban gets initial OK
Is marijuana kosher for Pessah?
Jerusalem Post – Mar 27, 2007
But not everyone agrees that hemp qualifies for the ban, and the debate has led many to question the definition of kitniyot. While hemp isn’t a kitchen staple for most people, hemp oil can be found in a number of hygiene products and in some alternative baked goods. But it’s hemp’s more notorious cousin, commonly known as marijuana, that has set the sparks flying. As debate over the kitniyot tradition has gathered steam among rabbinic circles, many are looking at hemp as a case in point of why the practice of abstention needs to be reexamined. The ban on kitniyot during Pessah began because rabbis were concerned that certain legumes would come into contact with the grains forbidden during the holiday. Farmers often grew wheat and rice in adjacent fields, and families frequently stored all of their grains and legumes in the same containers. The kitniyot tradition only applies to Jews of Ashkenazi descent, since Sephardic Jewry never adopted the practice… “We are considering announcing a ban on everything containing hemp just to be on the safe side. We are going with the rabbis on this. People should remove all cannabis and hemp from their homes. Levine said one of the party’s main arguments for cannabis legalization was biblical references to it. “We would like to ask people.
Cannabis linked to lung cancer risk
New Zealand Herald – Mar 27, 2007
css-trouble {display:block;font:bold 1. 6em Arial, sans-serif;line-height:2em;}. css-trouble a {text-decoration:none;color:#FF0000;}… Around 15 per cent of New Zealand adults under 46 use cannabis, drug-use surveys have found. Researcher Dr Sarah Aldington, of the Medical Research Institute in Wellington, presented the new case-control study to the Thoracic Society conference in Auckland yesterday. Cannabis users may have thought they were safe from lung cancer after a Californian study of more than 1600 people last year found no link between the disease and smoking the drug. Dr Aldington said the evidence on cannabis and the risk of lung cancer was limited and conflicting. Her study found the risk rose more than five-fold among the third of users smoking the most cannabis.
Urban Marijuana Farmers Spark Dutch Crackdown on Power Thefts
Bloomberg – Mar 27, 2007
“There is still a lot to do,'' said Van der Zeeuw, 51, as acolleague checked the power meter outside a suspected farm in thewestern part of the port city. “We are eliminating the smallergrowers and now we're getting to the professionals. '' Dutch officials are stepping up raids on an estimated 40,000indoor hemp plantations, which cause two fires a month inRotterdam by tapping into power lines for lights that feed theircrops. The crackdown is making it harder to supply marijuanashops with the Super Skunk and Purple haze their customers cravein a country that decriminalized use of the drug in 1976. TheDutch cannabis trade is worth $4 billion a year, police estimate. A crop of 100 plants, which can be grown in a living room,uses as much as 144 kilowatt hours of energy a day, compared with9 kilowatt hours for the average household. The thefts costenergy companies 200 million euros ($266… Energy companies want teamssimilar to Van der Zeeuw's to be created in all large cities. Rotterdam's effort to limit cannabis growing is part of alarger drive to curtail the marijuana trade. The so-called coffee shops that sell marijuana aren'tallowed to keep more than 500 grams of the product on thepremises at a time. Police recently stepped up enforcement ofthat rule by immediately revoking the licenses of stores foundviolating it. Goa, in Amsterdam's red light district, now employs“runners'' to periodically go to storerooms over the course ofthe day to keep the shop supplied. “It has become increasingly difficult to get theproducts,'' said Derrill Bagley, who works the counter at Goa.
Beach police discover city’s largest marijuana growing operation.
Free with registration – Virginian-Pilot – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 27, 2007
| Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) (March, 2007). 27–VIRGINIA BEACH — Two men were arrested last month in connection with what police are calling the largest and most elaborate marijuana growing operation in the city’s h.
Medical marijuana bill stirs debate: Supporters argue measure…
Free with registration – Spokesman-Review – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 27, 2007
27–OLYMPIA — In 1998, Washington voters approved an initiative allowing seriously ill patients to use marijuana. But nine years later, lawmakers are still working out the details. How much marijuana is allowed? Where are patients supposed to get it? And what is their doctors’ role in all this, given that the federal government still considers marijuana an illegal drug? A bill that attempts to address some of those questions attracted a demonstration and standing-room-only crowd Monday for a hearing before the House Health Care and Wellness Committee. Patients lined up on both sides of the measure, with supporters saying it’s important to.
Grand Terrace marijuana dispensary ban gets initial OK
Press-Enterprise – Press-Enterprise (subscription) – Mar 27, 2007
The Grand Terrace City Council voted 4-0 Tuesday evening to approve the first reading of an ordinance that will ban these dispensaries. Council member Dan Buchanan was absent. Other cities that have banned the clinics include Norco, San Jacinto, Palm Desert, Indio and Rancho Cucamonga. The ordinance will add a chapter to the city's municipal code banning the medical-marijuana dispensaries.