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Israel: Bronfman calls on Ovadia Yossef to legalize dope
Jerusalem Post
Friday 19 Dec 2003 MK Roman Bronfman (Meretz) has called upon Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yossef to issue an edict permitting the use of marijuana and hashish, reports Ynet. The request comes following Bronfman's receipt of documentation showing that, historically, North African Jewry had a more liberal approach to the subject. The rabbi who prepared the document, and who preferred to remain unnamed, states that Cannabis was used as far back as in Mishnaic times, its stems used instead of linen until the modern era. Moroccan Jews were issued licenses to sell Hashish, and spiritual leaders there had never issued edicts against its use. Bronfman also said that the issuing of such an edict would enable the rabbis to formally differentiate between Cannabis and harder drugs, to say nothing of the more harmful tobacco and alcohol.
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