A New Challenge: Marijuana Legalization and the Jewish Community

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September 10 2017
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1h 38min 23s
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Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Collections: Rabbi Torczyner Medical Halacha

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Panel of: Public Health professor and physician Dr. Barry Pakes, veteran criminal defence lawyer Matthew Friedberg and Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner discuss Canada's pending legalization of recreational marijuana. Overview comments, followed by discussion of the policy of "harm reduction", followed by discussion of the impact on the Jewish community. Moderated by Rabbi Jonathan Ziring.

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