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Does this give new meaning to the Jewish High Holidays?

Asked by elbanditoroso (33550points) February 24th, 2015

Either this is a satirical article (but it’s in the NY Post, which purports to be a real newspaper), or this is another sign of American progressiveness moving forward.

Kosher marijuana. Great idea.

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gailcalled's avatar

Article is legit but under kosher laws, green growing things are immune, being neither meat nor milk. I don’t understand why even the most fanatical foks invested in kashrut would bother. Maybe there’s a profit motive?

Declaring marijuana kosher is much sexier than doing it to lettuce, I guess.

Darth_Algar's avatar

@gailcalled

Didn’t read the article did you?

gorillapaws's avatar

“Drink your gin and tonikah, and smoke your marijuanikah, have a happy, happy, happy, happy Hanukkah!!!”

But seriously, this makes sense to me. If you keep strict kosher, are prescribed medical marijuana and want to eat kosher edibles, you should be able to. I can’t see this being a ridiculously huge market or anything, but it’s important to some people and that’s good enough for me.

ucme's avatar

Peddler on the Roof…yerba derba derba doo

rojo's avatar

Alaska has just gone to pot.

JLeslie's avatar

Sounds ok to me. They can sell it to people who don’t keep kosher also. A large percentage of packaged foods are kosher and people don’t even realize it.

I doubt most medicine is kosher? Jews are supposed to do what is necessary for health reasons, so I would think Kosher isn’t necessary for medication. I’m no expert though, possibly it needs to be something life threatening and not pain relieving to break the Kosher laws? I’m sure observant Jews would prefer to know anything they ingest is Kosher.

ucme's avatar

See my answer above, that’s Fred Flinstone when he’s smacked outta his massive head.

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