Kosher Cannabis

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Cannabis cookies are kosher for Passover

A licensed medicinal marijuana provider now offers therapeutic treats for the festival that are reportedly delicious

By MITCH GINSBURG (http://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/mitch-ginsburg/)

Times of Israel

April 5, 2012

In a location he will describe only as being “in the center of the country,” Moshe Ichiya, a graduate of the Estella school’s master class in pastry making, bakes cannabis cookies for some 350 patients who are sick or in chronic pain and, as of this week, they are kosher for Passover.

Ichiya’s company, Cannabliss, is one of several registered with the Health Ministry and the sole supplier of medicinal marijuana products to the Sharett Institute of Oncology at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center.

“You see their flyers around the ward,” said a recent patient.

But access is not immediately granted. First a patient’s attending physician must be convinced that medicinal marijuana is warranted. Then the doctor sends a letter to the Health Ministry, which reviews the case and sends the patient a license with their name and ID number, granting them permission by law to possess an individually prescribed amount of cannabis.

In Israel there are some 9,000 licensed users of therapeutic marijuana, the highest per capita rate in the world, according to the Knesset Drug Abuse Committee.

Patients treated at Hadassah then call Ichiya.

He is somewhat hazy about the full spectrum of his personal knowledge of cannabis, noting that his early experiences came after a severe sprain of his ankle while on duty in the army in south Lebanon. Some 11 years later, when he opened Cannabliss in 2010, he was well versed. “They saw that the percentages per unit were precise and that the product was excellent,” he said of the lab at Hadassah and Professor Reuven Or, who oversees the operation from a medical perspective.

He also had a philosophy: do no harm when trying to heal. He said he has seen cancer patients with only one lung smoking joint after joint of marijuana and that after that he vowed to produce only smoke-free products. Currently he offers patients an array of creams, drops and cookies.

As a supplier to Orthodox communities in Jerusalem, the cookies and topical ointments made sense as they allowed patients to use the medical marijuana over Shabbat.

From there the next step — koshering for Passover — was a given. “I boiled the pots and everything,” he said of his pre-Passover preparations.

On offer this year are cookies made from matzoh meal and, “for the most strict,” from potato flour.

According to a patient, they are also delicious, which is no easy feat when baking with an inherently bitter plant substance.

Since the marijuana is given as a medicine, it requires no rabbinic supervision. Nonetheless, a recent visit from a delivery person — his mother — came with a wide range of explanations. “She lays all the supplies out on the table and explains everything to you,” the patient said.

She explains that the cookies are strong and unlike inhaled marijuana they only begin to alleviate pain an hour and a half to two hours after ingestion. Their effect, however, lasts for up to 10 hours. She expounds on the creams and the drops that can be placed under the tongue and the vaporizer and the sugar-free options, and the regular strength and the extra-strength doses and finally, on a recent pre-Passover visit, she confirms that “a rabbi from Mea Shearim” has given them his blessing.

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מזל טוב

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Mazel tov

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Yum!

What about BROWNIES?

moi, do you have a recipe?

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Yum!

What about BROWNIES?

moi, do you have a recipe?

How about Alice B Toklas' recipe for:

Haschigh Fudge

This is the food of Paradise – of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises: It might provide entertaining refreshment for a Ladies Bridge Club or a chapter meeting of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution). In Morocco it is thought to be good for warding off the common cold in damp winter weather and is, indeed, more effective if taken with large quantities of hot mint tea. Euphoria and brilliant storms of laughter; ecstatic reveries and extensions of one’s personality on several simultaneous planes are to be complacently expected. Almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better if you can bear to be ravished by an ‘un évanouissment reveillé’.

Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverized in a mortar. About a handful each of de-stoned dates, dried figs, shelled almonds and peanuts: chop these and mix them together. A bunch of cannabis sativa can be pulverized. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit and nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake and cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. Two pieces are quite sufficient.

Obtaining the cannabis may present certain difficulties, but the variety known as cannabis sativa grows as a common weed, often unrecognized, everyone in Europe, Asia and parts of Africa; besides being cultivated as a crop for the manufacture of rope. In the Americas, while often discouraged, its cousin, called cannabis indica, has been observed even in city window boxes. It should be picked and dried as soon as it has gone to seed and while the plant is still green.

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