Bridging the accessibility gap of cannabinoid medicine and Arabic culture

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D. Robinson, Ritter, S. , Zadik-Weiss, L. , Ounallah-Saad, H. , Abu-Ahmad, N. , Kashkoosh, R. , Yassin, M. , and Or, R. . 2020. “Bridging The Accessibility Gap Of Cannabinoid Medicine And Arabic Culture”. Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 11, 1. doi:10.5041/RMMJ.10392.

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Arabs are a large minority group in the Israeli society. With the increasing use of medical cannabis throughout Israel due to changing governmental policies, the interactions of the Arab society with medical cannabis becomes of scientific and medical relevance. Recreational cannabis use is considered haram (forbidden) in Islam. However, most religious scholars agree that medical cannabis usage might be justified as zarurat (emergency and life-saving, therefore allowed) use. Obstacles to medical cannabis use within the Arabic population may relate to language barrier and/or cultural barriers. There are few Arabic-speaking web-based medical-cannabis support groups, and little official information about it is available in the Arabic language. In order for the full benefits of medical cannabis to reach the entire Israeli population, a government-sponsored web-based educational program is necessary in Hebrew and Arabic, both of which are among the nation's official languages, thereby contributing to the equalization of health resource accessibility. © 2020 Robinson et al. This is an open-access article. All its content, except where otherwise noted, is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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