No Pot for Pesach, Ale Yarok says

**Conductor42** · April 29th 2007, 04:45 PM

News: JTA

The Green Leaf Party, a small Israeli political party that supports legalizing pot, announced Tuesday that marijuana may not be kosher for Passover. The reason, they say, is that marijuana seeds are kitniyot, which Ashkenazim traditionally don't consume on Passover. Sephardim do eat kitniyot.

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"We are considering announcing a ban on everything containing hemp just to be on the safe side," she said. "We are going with the rabbis on this. People should remove all cannabis and hemp from their homes.

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news...pesachpot.html

**mitzi** · April 30th 2007, 11:11 AM

Originally posted by Neo

News: JTA

The Green Leaf Party, a small Israeli political party that supports legalizing pot, announced Tuesday that marijuana may not be kosher for Passover. The reason, they say, is that marijuana seeds are kitniyot, which Ashkenazim traditionally don't consume on Passover. Sephardim do eat kitniyot.

[...]

"We are considering announcing a ban on everything containing hemp just to be on the safe side," she said. "We are going with the rabbis on this. People should remove all cannabis and hemp from their homes.

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news...pesachpot.html

Neo.