{"id":1932,"date":"2013-07-10T23:08:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T23:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=21094"},"modified":"2013-07-10T23:08:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T23:08:53","slug":"prominent-israeli-rabbi-supports-medical-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/prominent-israeli-rabbi-supports-medical-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Israeli Rabbi Supports Medicinal Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/prominent-israeli-rabbi-supports-medical-marijuana\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"277\" height=\"182\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/tel-aviv.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"tel aviv\" title=\"tel aviv\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-21097\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/prominent-israeli-rabbi-supports-medical-marijuana\/attachment\/tel-aviv\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-21097\" title=\"tel aviv\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/tel-aviv-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Both marijuana activists and advocates of prohibition have certainly been discussing their opinions for a while.\u00a0 However, in almost any debate, a brand new perspective could be refreshing.\u00a0 Now it seems, we might have religious leaders join the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Efraim Zalmanovich, \u00a0a well-known religious leader in Israel, lately released an argument supporting using medicinal marijuana. \u00a0Rabbi Zalmanovich didn&#8217;t support excessive leisure use. \u00a0Specifically he stated &#8220;Taking drugs to flee our planet in almost any excessive strategy is certainly forbidden. \u00a0 \u00a0However, if the medication is given to alleviate discomfort, then your person passing on is carrying out a mitzvah.&#8221; \u00a0In Judaism a mitzvah is recognized as a great deed. \u00a0Jews are urged to carry out a mitzvah every single day.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s government has had another approach on medicinal marijuana. \u00a0While cannabis continues to be considered illegal more often than not, many patients have acquired legal medicinal marijuana permits.\u00a0 These permits are released from Israel&#8217;s Secretary of state for Health. \u00a0As of 2011, roughly 11,000 citizens have medical permits.\u00a0 There has been discussions of further restricting this program, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokeofthetown.com\/2013\/05\/hunger_strikes_and_protests_forcing_medical_marijuana_reform_in_israel.php\" target=\"_blank\">activists are keeping the problem alive<\/a> and might help expand this program.<\/p>\n<p>The claims by Rabbi \u00a0Zalmanovich might be surprising to a lot of as organized religion has frequently \u00a0taken a lukewarm approach, or perhaps in Christianity&#8217;s situation leaders really linked it to Satan. \u00a0Providing relief to God&#8217;s children should be valued by our spiritual leaders. \u00a0We hope this makes way for additional leaders in organized religion to aid patients in need of assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"277\" height=\"182\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/tel-aviv.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"tel aviv\" title=\"tel aviv\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-21097\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/prominent-israeli-rabbi-supports-medical-marijuana\/attachment\/tel-aviv\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-21097\" title=\"tel aviv\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/tel-aviv-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Both marijuana activists and advocates of prohibition have certainly been discussing their opinions for a while.\u00a0 However, in almost any debate, a brand new perspective could be refreshing.\u00a0 Now it seems, we might have religious leaders join the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Efraim Zalmanovich, \u00a0a well-known religious leader in Israel, lately released an argument supporting using medicinal marijuana. \u00a0Rabbi Zalmanovich didn&#8217;t support excessive leisure use. \u00a0Specifically he stated &#8220;Taking drugs to flee our planet in almost any excessive strategy is certainly forbidden. \u00a0 \u00a0However, if the medication is given to alleviate discomfort, then your person passing on is carrying out a mitzvah.&#8221; \u00a0In Judaism a mitzvah is recognized as a great deed. \u00a0Jews are urged to carry out a mitzvah every single day.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s government has had another approach on medicinal marijuana. \u00a0While cannabis continues to be considered illegal more often than not, many patients have acquired legal medicinal marijuana permits.\u00a0 These permits are released from Israel&#8217;s Secretary of state for Health. \u00a0As of 2011, roughly 11,000 citizens have medical permits.\u00a0 There has been discussions of further restricting this program, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokeofthetown.com\/2013\/05\/hunger_strikes_and_protests_forcing_medical_marijuana_reform_in_israel.php\" target=\"_blank\">activists are keeping the problem alive<\/a> and might help expand this program.<\/p>\n<p>The claims by Rabbi \u00a0Zalmanovich might be surprising to a lot of as organized religion has frequently \u00a0taken a lukewarm approach, or perhaps in Christianity&#8217;s situation leaders really linked it to Satan. \u00a0Providing relief to God&#8217;s children should be valued by our spiritual leaders. \u00a0We hope this makes way for additional leaders in organized religion to aid patients in need of assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,331,56,9,51,70,1942,1,3,61],"tags":[2632,2909,2636,2631,5,4510,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}