[Avodah] kosher marijuana

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 12/31/2015 02:20 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:23:35PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
> : How is it achilah at all?  Reicha lav milsa.

> Well, not everyone says it's derech achilah, but I believe RSZA does
> (Minchas Shelomo vol II #10) when he permits smoking on YT a cigarette
> that has a text printed on it. He gies a few arguments, this is part
> of a few of them -- he reduces the issur and then says and since it's
> okel nefesh, it's mutar.


"Ochel nefesh", for yomtov purposes, doesn't mean "achilah", it means
"hana'as haguf", and includes rechitza and sicha.  "Lechol nefesh"
comes to include all needs of the body.  Smoking is clearly a hana'as
haguf, but it simply isn't achila, just as sicha is not achila even if
it's the derech of 100% of people.


-- 
Zev Sero               All around myself I will wave the green willow
zev at sero.name          The myrtle and the palm and the citron for a week
                And if anyone should ask me the reason why I'm doing that
                I'll say "It's a Jewish thing; if you have a few minutes
                I'll explain it to you".