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? Fibre, food, fuel, Marijuana, Medicine, Law
/ "Hempen Culture in Japan".
/ "Hempen Culture in Japan": Religion.
? Hemp in Japanese History and Culture.
Contents:
? Overview
? Ise Jingu in Mie prefecture
? "Religions of Japan" ~ _ ,
? "Liberation from Occupation!" - - _
? Hemp and Sumo
? Islam Hinduism, Christianity, Rastafarianism _Hem~~ aaae~ a„d fibre
1.Overview
Hemp has an important function in the mythology of
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Shinto, the "Way of the Gods", as the ancient
indigenous religion of Japan is known. Hemp was
used to purify, to drive out evil (exorcism). Hemp
seeds were used in Shinto marriage ceremonies. In
some ceremonies hemp leaves were burnt as an ~ ` k
"invitation to the spirits". Moore Even today there are
shinto ceremonies at mayor shnnes such as Ise Jin u
n K~Aie prefecture andothershrines thatinvolvethe
6"urning of tarma (marihuana).
The priests' clothes were made from hemp linen and
and bell ropes in shrines (see image to the right) were
made from hemp too. Hemp for bell ropes is still
grown in Nagano prefecture today. Several hemp
fields are cultivated on Shikoku (one of the four main
islands of Japan) to make ceremonial linen clothes for
the Imperial family and for Shinto priests. Hempen bell rope
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RELIGIOUS RIGHTS
The Church in each place must be free to define the mission it believes it has received
from God. Likewise. individual Christians and other believers must be free to practice their '
faith in what ever manner they believe necessary. commensurate with their not violating the
same freedom of others. In addition, we affirm the understanding of religious freedom
embodied in the Universal Declaration of human rights (1948) and other international
covenants. While some actions taken in the name of religious rights may be ambiguous and
will have to be addressed on a case-by-case basis, we believe that religious rights include at
least the following:
1. Every person has [he right to determine his/her own faith and creed according to
conscience.
2. Every person has the rights to his belief; to express his religious beliefs in worship,
teaching, and practice; and to proclaim the implications of his beliefs for relationship
in a social and productive community.
3. Every religious organization, formed or maintained, has the right to determine its
policies and practices for the accomplishment of its chosen purpose, which implies the
right: -
a) To assemble for unhindered private or public worship.
b) To formulate your own creed,
c) To give its religious instruction to its youth, including preparation for
ministry,
d) To preach its message publicly,
e) To receive into its membership those who desire tojoin it,
tl To carry on social services and to engage in missionary activity both at
home and abroad.
g) To organize local congregation,
h) To publish and circulate religious literature,
i) To control the means necessary to its mission and to secure support for
its work at home and abroad. -
j) To cooperate and to unite with other believers at home and abroad,
k) To determine freely the qualification for professional leadership of
religious communities, freely naming their religious leaders at all levels
and designating their work assignments.
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Parashat Hashavua This study guide is designed to initiate discussion following presentation of the video A Panel Discussion
Ask a Rabbi on Medical Mazijuana. Jewish commandments (mitzvot) help us make the world a more sensitive, just and
)ewish Books compassionate place. From what the speakers in the video said and what you know about the following
Jewish values, why do you think WRJ supports making the cannabis plant available as medicine to the sick?
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1. Saving alife - pikuach nefesh - is the most urgent mitzvah in Judaism "Nothing must take precedence
Chavurah over saving of life" (Talmud B., Yoma 82a). Do you think medical marijuana can save lives? How?
Yachad 2. Jewish mystics count these among the ten Sefirot, attributes or manifestations of God: Din, the power of
Beth Am women God, is manifest throughjudgment and the setting of limits; on the opposite side, Hesed represents the
Youth:
BATY mercy of a patient, forgiving God. Mediating between these two extremes is Rahamim, the love and
BA)Y compassion of God. What might be some compassionate solutions between the limits of current laws
BA75 against cannabis and the mercy we feel for those who are suffering?
young Adults 3. The mitzvah of bikkur cholim, visiting the sick, has as its object cheering the sick, to be of service to
Seniors
I(ulanu them, and to give them hope. And, while Judaism prescribes prayer for and by the sick, it is not seen as a
Israel Action substitute for competent medical treatment (Gates of Mitzvah, p. 49). How do you see medical marijuana
Committees as a source of hope for the sick and as valid medical treatment?
Poltava 4. "Justice, justice shall ye pursue" (Deuteronomy 16:20) is the Torah's abiding prescription. Is there justice
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when sick people are denied access to this God-given substance, are imprisoned for using it as medicine
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r;c~ 7oau„t_e; 5. Cannabis has only been illegal in this country since 1937 when the Marijuana Tax Act was passed by
Congress a law of the land passed by a government of men. With Tikkun plain, repairing the world, as
God's commandment to us, does the situation with regard to medical cannabis woman[ some repair? If so,
Resourcefi what kind of action might we take?
Sermon Archive 6. It is a mitzvah to study torah! What lessons can be learned from these two verses?
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and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food." (Plaut, p. 20)
In Exodus 30:23 we are told that the Lord said to Moses: 'Next take choice spices: five hundred weight of
sonic
i~i'ie~ myrrh, half as much -two hundred and fifty - of fragrant cinnamon, two hundred and fifty of
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aromatic cane Make of this a sacred anointing oil." (Plaut, p. 633) In the text, the Hebrew word for aromatic
c~an~e~is transliterated as 'kana-besem'. The modem Hebrew word transliterated as 'kanabos' is translated as
diem the English word for cannabis. (Ben-Yehuda's Pocket English-Hebrew/ Hebrew-English Dictionary,
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401 HEALTH ISSUES RESOLUTION, ADOPTED DECEMBER 1999
WRJ calls upon its North American Sisterhoods to:
1. Become informed about the medicinal use of marijuana and its constituent compounds,
2. Call for further medical research on marijuana and its constituent compounds with thegoal of developing
reliable and safe cannabinoid drags for management of debilitating conditions,
3. In the interim, strongly urge elected officials to support legislation to reclassify marijuana as a prescribed
controlled substance so that it can be used to conduct research and prescribed far critically ill patients
with intractable pain and other conditions.
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Books of Interest
Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts, Lynn Zimmer and John Morgan (The Lindesmith Center, 1997)
Marihuana Reconsidered, Lester Grinspoon (Hazvazd University Press, 1994 - 3rd edition)
Marihuana. The Forbidden Medicine, Lester Grinspoon, M.D., James B. Bakalar (Yale University Press, 1993)
References Cited
r.. Ben-Yehuda's Pocket English-Hebrew/Hebrew-English Dictionary, New York: Washington Square Press, Inc.,
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M
lin, Simon S., ed. Gates of Mitzvah: A Guide To The Jewish Life Cycle, New York: Central Conference of
American Rabbis, 1986.
Henzman, Rachel, "Sisterhood: A Covenant of the Soul" in Covenant of the Soul: New Prayers, Poems and
Meditations from the Women of Reform Judaism, New York: Women ofReform Judaism,1999.
Plaut, W. Gunther, ed. The Torah. A Modern Commentary, New York: Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, 1981.
Women of Reform Judaism, In Pursuit of Justice: Resolutions and Policy Statements, New York: Women of
Reform Judaism, 2000
Internet References
Medical Marijuana -Master Reference
hnp~//www dru hg brarv.ore/schaffer/medical mj.htm
Articles on Medicinal Marijuana (Drug Policy Alliance Online Library)
httu~//www druspolicv ore/marijuanahnedical
Avenues for Action
Marijuana Policy Project: Leam about the legal status of medical mazijuana in your state; find out what
activists are doing in other states
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Advocate for legislative change.
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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, was born Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman, in the Lithuanian village of
Luzhky on January 7, 1858. Like virtually all Jewish children of that tim a and place he
began learning Hebrew from a very tender age as part of a thoroughly religious
upbringing. He excelled in his studies and ultimately was sent to a tahnudicacademy
(yeshiva) in the hope that he would become a rabbi. However, like many promising
young Jews of the time in eastern Europe, he became interested in the seculaz world and
ultimatelyexchanged theyeshivafor aRussiangymnasium, completing his studies as an
external student in 1877. In the same year Russia proclaimed war on the Ottoman
Empire to aid their fellow Slavs, the Bulgarians, to regain their independence from the
Turks. Ben-Yehuda was captivated by the idea of restoring to the Bulgarianstheirrights
and reviving the Bulgarian nation on its national soil. In the 19th century, several
European nations had been so revived, perhaps the most celebrated being the Greeks,
the heirs of Classical Athens, in 1829, and the Italians, the heirs of Classical Rome, in
1849. Ben-Yehuda was deeply influencedby such revivals and came to the conclusion
that the European concept ofnational fizlfihnentshould alsobeapplied to his people, the
Jews. He felt deeply that if the Bulgarians, who were not an ancient, classical people,
could demand and obtain a state of their own, then the Jews, the People of the Book
and the heirs ofhistoric Jerusalem, deserved the same. True, Eretz-Israel, the land of the
Jews, contained few Jews in the 19th century, and the language of the Jews, Hebrew,
was virtually only awritten language and not a spoken tongue, but he felt these obstacles
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resource and developed modern words andterminology.Thankslargely to his efforts more than a
web )inks century ago, Hebrew is avibrant languageinIsrael --and now on the Internet.
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` I am going to devote the next weeks looking at Hebrew on the Internet: how to Team
Hebrew online, where to play the best Hebrew games and how to makeyour browser
Hebrew-friendly.
But first back toBen-Yehuda (1858-1922). In a marvelous essay, Jack Felhnan,a senior
[an error occurred lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, explainsthatBen-YehudabelievedJews "mustreturnto
their land and begin anew to speak their own language."You'll fmd it at w~~1~ zi_;
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According to Fellman,Ben-Yehuda and his wife, Deborah, promised to raise their son
Ittamarasthefirstall-Hebrewspeakingchildinmodernhistory. Ben-Yedudafelt so
passionately about protectinghis son from other languages that "when visitors came to the
house who did not know Hebrew, Ben-Yehudawould send [Ittamar] to bed so that he
would not heartheir foreignlanguages."
Thanks toBen-Yehuda's zeal and Ittamar's needs, Ben-Yehuda coined words for such
objects as dolls, ice cream, j elly, towel, bicycle and hundreds more to help Hebrew
become a vibrant language. "Before Ben-Yehuda,"Fellmanwrites, "Jews could speak
Hebrew; afterhim they did."
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public in dozens ofpublished dictionazies and lists. Additionalspecialized
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purposely not covered by the law orthe Constitution."
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by Pete Brady (01 Nov, 1998)
~~~~~ressure to have it oth~ noise, Dr. Dreher's research reveals that pot-
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Dr Dreher is Dean of the University of Iowa's .~r
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honours degrees in nursing, anthropology
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Although Dreher is amulti-faceted
researcher and teacher whose expertise
ranges from culture to child development to
public health, she began early on to Dr Meanie Dreher
specialize in medical anthropology. After
distinguishing herself as a field researcher in graduate school, Dreher was hand-picked by
her professors to conduct a major study of marijuana use in Jamaica. Her doctoral
dissertation was published as a book titled "Working Men and Ganja,"which stands as one
of the premier cross-cultural studies of chronic marijuana use.
Along with being awidely-published researcher, writer, and college administrator, Dreher is
a professor or lecturer at several institutions, including the University of the West Indies.
She recently served as president of the 120,000 member Sigma Theta Tau International
Nursing Honour Society, has been an expert witness in a religious freedom case involving
ganja use by the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, and is one of the most well-respected
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