The Do's and Don'ts of Kosher Marijuana
If you really need it, and nothing else is available, medical marijuana probably does not need kashrut certification, confirms Rabbi Moshe Elefant, chief operating officer of the Orthodox Union's Kashruth Department.
This January, the OU gained the distinction of becoming the first kashruth organization to certify medical marijuana, produced by the company Vireo Health, causing some eyebrows to rise, on a number of grounds.
One is that medicine shouldn't require kashrut certification, should it? Asking this question led to a moment of pilpul-lite on the definition of "medicine."
"First of all, if someone is seriously ill and needs to take medicine, he need not be concerned about its kashrus," Rabbi Elefant clarified to Haaretz by phone from New York. "But it's not as simple as it sounds, certainly if somebody has a chronic condition. If they have a chronic condition and need a medicine, they should take it and not...
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