Absorbtion vs. Consumption on Yom Kippur
Since it’s almost time for Yom Kippur (see the Canna-Jewish Holiday Guide), I’m sharing the results of my experiments...
By: Lior Yafe
In recent years, the cannabis industry has emerged as a focal point of global debate, challenging long-held stigmas and advocating for a...
I believe you can be in support of protecting Gazan civilians, support Israel, and stand against antisemitism all at the same time, but the key is to stand.
The cannabis industry has a special responsibility to support Israel and defend Jews against those who deny our right to exist, since our resilience and recovery paved the way for the medical cannabis industry and its moral compass.
The conjunction “White Jew” used to designate Ashkenazi Jews white-enough to be White is meant to signify both our racial and ethnic identities, but instead places them in a mutually exclusive relation such that I cannot identify as both White and Jewish at the same time.
Yoseph Needelman-Ruiz a.k.a. Yoseph Leib Ibn Mardachya is the author of Cannabis Chassidis: The Ancient and Emerging Torah of Drugs (Autonomedia press, 2012); an...
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.
