[Avodah] Marijuana is kitniyos?

[Akiva Atwood]

> 
> No one eats hemp seeds.

But they DO use Hemp OIL -- it's sold in health food stores,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp_oil

http://www.ratical.org/renewables/TherapHoil.html

So it should be no different than cotton seed oil in Halacha.

> That a derivative is made from the oil extract is not kiniyot 
> but "mei kitniyot". And I doubt this is even "mei kitniyot" 
> since the THC (active ingredient in marijuana)  from hemp 
> must be extracted by complex chemical means

It's not exactly rocket science -- it was routinely being done by high
school students in my home town in the early 70s.

Akiva

 
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