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Is Your Kosher Marijuana Ethically Grown?
At 12:01 a.m. today, marijuana became legal (well, kinda-sorta) in Washington, D.C. It’s been decriminalized in Colorado, Washington state and Alaska; Oregon passed an initiative that takes effect in...
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Reads on Weed: Celebrate 4/20 With Tablet's Marijuana Coverage
Today is April 20, a day during which we celebrate pot—its culture; its industry; its fast-growing legal acceptance; its ability to make environments feel lighter and more like a video game; its...
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Despite her tragic circumstances, Dahlia Finger, the antiheroine of Elisa Albert’s first novel, makes sympathy a tough sell. Diagnosed with a brain tumor at the novel’s start, Dahlia, a classic...
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• The especially fearful and vigorous opponents of Park51 are actually playing into terrorists’ hands, argues one terrorism expert. [Laura Rozen] • Guess which country has legalized medicinal...
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Today in Tablet Magazine, Mideast columnist Lee Smith argues that a newly Republican House of Representatives could give President Obama political cover to continue his Mideast policy, emphasizing...
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Today, Tablet Magazine published Rebecca Spence’s dispatch from Berkeley, California, where a group of Orthodox Jews are inspired by their religion and spirituality to sell medicinal marijuana. And...
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Few other countries are watching today’s midterm elections more closely than Israel, which anticipates that Republican gains in the House and Senate will hem the Obama administration in somewhat when...
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Things went pretty much as expected: Sweeping Republican gains at the national and state levels—enough to win the House of Representatives (60-plus seats!), but not the Senate; enough to win the...
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A Jew, a WASP, and a Catholic Made the Velvet Underground a Balanced Rock...
Three things happened in the fall of 1990 that changed my life forever. The first—and by far the least significant—was the first Gulf War, which inspired Saddam Hussein to hurl his missiles at Israel....
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It's Easy to Get Marijuana If You Live in a West Bank Israeli Settlement
Dude! I, like, totally blew it. Back when I lived in Israel, all my bros were totally into weed and stuff, and we were always mad scared of the police busting us. There’s an easy solution! All you have...
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• The Adelsons have given $20 million to Gingrich’s Super PAC, for a return-on-investment of … hold on, let me calculate this … $0. [Politico] • Appearing at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with...
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Reform Rabbi: One of Washington’s First Marijuana Dispensaries Will Be Run By...
Jeffrey Kahn, a Reform rabbi living in Washington, D.C., remembers several congregants who approached him over the years with the same dilemma: They’d heard that marijuana could relieve their nausea...
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Action Bronson, Genius Jewish Rapper From Queens, Deserves a Grammy
Action Bronson is a 29-year-old chef-turned-rapper of Albanian and Jewish extraction from Queens, who is internationally known for his love of THC, epicurean feasts, and whip gymnastics. He reminds me...
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Medical Marijuana Soothes the Pain of Israeli Cancer Patients and Holocaust...
On a recent afternoon in Kibbutz Naan, near the city of Rehovot, Israel, Moshe Rute took a hefty puff from his pot pipe, with the blessing of the government. His hands stopped convulsing, and he...
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The New Face of Marijuana Legalization Movement Is In Colorado
To find perhaps the most influential marijuana activist in the country, you have to go to Denver. Your journey starts near the Colorado statehouse, which in May passed legislation establishing a...
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Thanks in Part to Jewish Activists, Colorado Will Ring in the New Year With...
While many of us will likely be sleeping in tomorrow, cannabis advocates will be up early (contrary to stereotype) to help inaugurate the newly legal marijuana market in Colorado. The first customer...
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With Egypt’s Border Closed, Israelis Are Farming Their Own Weed
For some Israelis, the government’s newly completed, $400 million border fence with Egypt looks like a way to stop terrorism. For others, it represents a visible effort to halt illegal immigration from...
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Israeli Scientists Believe a Chemical Compound Found in Marijuana Can Help...
A group of Israeli scientists have reason to believe that a chemical compound found in marijuana has the power to expedite the healing of broken bones. According to their study cannabinoid cannabidiol...
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Q&A: A.J. Weberman on Dylan, Lennon, Garbage, New York, and the JDL
Alan Weberman is a stone cold meshugganeh. He is by no means a reliable news source. Yet, by the same token, the legalese that these days must precede any printed record of the former Yippie, drug...
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This Week on Unorthodox, Author Eric Weiner and Oxford English Dictionary...
This week on Unorthodox: Israeli settlers and Palestinians work together … to grow marijuana. Our Jewish guest is Eric Weiner, former NPR Jerusalem bureau chief and author of the new book The Geography...
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Meet Raphael Mechoulam, the Israeli Godfather of THC
It’s not every day that you can waltz down to police headquarters and pick up a few kilos of weed—unless, that is, you’re Raphael Mechoulam, the man who discovered THC, the chemical that gets you high...
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This Week on Unorthodox: BuzzFeed Marijuana Reporter Amanda Chicago Lewis and...
This week on Unorthodox, the ’90s are back: The Intifada is all the rage at UC Irvine, 90210’s Andrea Zuckerman is on our minds, and, well, a Clinton is running for president. Our Jewish guest is...
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The Juice on Jewcy: Bette Midler as Dolly Levi, 'Dirty Dancing' Hits the...
Excuse me, I only have a minute. I’m obsessively watching my email in anticipation of the notification that Oh, Hello on Broadway is debuting on Netflix. It could happen any day. And so, a quick...
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Boreh Pri Ha'Ganja: What's the Proper Blessing to Say Over Weed?
This summer we’re bringing you daily posts from our sister site, Jewcy.com, edited by Gabriela Geselowitz. You can find more from Jewcy here. In Judaism, blessings are said during certain moments to...
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JZ’s 12 Commandments for Incoming College Freshmen
1) Go buck wild. Your guardians are nowhere to be seen, so party—and I mean party—like nobody is watching, not even God. But that hangover, or that person next to you this morning, or the fact that...
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In San Francisco, the Society Jane Women’s Collective Hosts Tupperware-style...
“There’s a bro mentality in much of cannabis culture,” Society Jane co-founder Andy Greenberg told me. “It’s just a very male focus and attitude: ‘More is better! Stronger is better! Let’s dab! Let’s...
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The Israeli Whose App Made Ordering Weed As Easy As Ordering Pizza
According to a recent study conducted by the Israeli Anti-Drug Authority, the Holy Land might as well be rebranded as a “Weedtopia.” More than a quarter of adults aged 18 to 40 reported having used...
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A New Leaf
To Jews in the cannabis space, it’s an inside joke just how many of us are involved in weed: as activists, professionals, medical marijuana patients, or simply as stoners. But funny as it is, it’s not...
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A Visit With Raphael Mechoulam, the Israeli Godfather of Cannabinoid Research
It smelled like weed as I walked past a grassy, tree-shaded area recently near a water fountain and benches at Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, an affiliate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
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Want to Keep Jews Safe? Criminalize Marijuana
Sarah Halimi’s case marks a new milestone for the already embattled French Jewish community. After a drawn out court case, on Wednesday, Nov. 27, a Paris judge dropped the murder charges against...
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