“Anti-Jewish bias? But there are so many Jews in cannabis.” I never know if someone says this as a complaint or as an observation, but it always makes me uncomfortable because the observation is a potent source of implicit, anti-Jewish bias.
The promise of ElionMED to normalize the use of medical cannabis by creating a platform that offers a different model for the patient-doctor interface is a stunning example of how women founders and all-women companies are quietly revolutionizing the medical establishment to carve a path for the future of medical cannabis.
Abi Roach is an innovative pioneer and visionary in the cannabis industry who has been making headlines and building Jewish community in the cannabis space for over 20 years.
One of the greatest strengths of American Pot Story is how it recovers the queer, disabled, and Jewish voices that played a pivotal role in the grassroots effort to normalize the use of cannabis.
I get called by rabbis who have arthritis or just had a surgery, and they are looking for Kosher [cannabis] and I have to help them. When they take it, they'll swear by it, but they can't openly publicize it; you hear what I'm saying? There is still a shtickle stigma.
Part of the reason why it’s hard to take seriously this notion of a “restored self” as a medical benefit of cannabinoid therapy is because we tend to think about PTSD as a pathology of memory or repression that can be cured with the right therapist or strain of weed.
It has given me no small amount of pleasure to learn that Israeli researchers are finding that with regard to understanding the medical benefits of cannabis, the biomedical model—based on mind-body dualism—just doesn't work.
As I was reading about this system that perpetually collects and analyzes environmental data in the grow room to correct for any problems before they occur, I kept thinking about a grower I know who spends most of his time collecting that data himself, and rarely leaves work.
In the tradition of Dr. Franz Fanon and his classic work Black Skin, White Masks (1952), we can think about being-Ashkenazi in terms of the psychic scars suffered from being racialized and living in the world as a remnant.
