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Bridging the Accessibility Gap of Cannabinoid Medicine and Arabic Culture

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 considere...

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Autores principales: Robinson, Dror, Ritter, Sivan, Zadik-Weiss, Lilach, Ounallah-Saad, Hadile, Abu-Ahmad, Nour, Kashkoosh, Rashid, Yassin, Mustafa, Or, Reuven
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Publicado: Rambam Health Care Campus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7000157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32017683
http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10392
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author Robinson, Dror
Ritter, Sivan
Zadik-Weiss, Lilach
Ounallah-Saad, Hadile
Abu-Ahmad, Nour
Kashkoosh, Rashid
Yassin, Mustafa
Or, Reuven
author_facet Robinson, Dror
Ritter, Sivan
Zadik-Weiss, Lilach
Ounallah-Saad, Hadile
Abu-Ahmad, Nour
Kashkoosh, Rashid
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-70001572020-02-24 Bridging the Accessibility Gap of Cannabinoid Medicine and Arabic Culture Robinson, Dror Ritter, Sivan Zadik-Weiss, Lilach Ounallah-Saad, Hadile Abu-Ahmad, Nour Kashkoosh, Rashid Yassin, Mustafa Or, Reuven Rambam Maimonides Med J Special Issue on Cannabis in Medicine 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. Rambam Health Care Campus 2020-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7000157/ /pubmed/32017683 http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10392 Text en Copyright: © 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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Abu-Ahmad, Nour
Kashkoosh, Rashid
Yassin, Mustafa
Or, Reuven
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