Drugs; Narcotics

Question: I am asking this question in all seriousness, as it troubles me to not know what the Jewish belief is regarding marijuana. A while back I was struggling with hard drugs and going downhill fast academically and socially. Since then I have ...

I've heard that certain tribes used various narcotic substances to help achieve a mystic state. Is there room for this in Jewish practice?

The murky world of addictive narcotics can be dangerous. Yet some spiritualists maintain that it is necessary for the release of one’s inner soul and spirit, and it is the only way to experience a transcendental sense of spiritual consciousness. Is that ...

Research shows that 80% of children enter first grade with a sense of self-worth, and twelve years later, 80% leave high school feeling defective and inferior. The Victory Technique is the only way to "immunize" our children...

Yakov Baruchman was on the verge of making the deal of a lifetime. Yakov trusted himself, an expert judge of character, a king of his own underworld that extended from an appliance store in Tel Aviv to the alleys of Amsterdam. The guys drove up in the ...

The late 1970s saw the rise of drugs in Israel’s school system. Dr. Eliezer Shmueli served as Director General of Israel’s Ministry of Education at that time.

Not all deaths make it to the news, and not all drug addicts die. But when they do, it become our responsibility to ensure that their death was not without a lesson for the living.

The fearless few who throw caution to the wind and heedlessly plunge into every offered challenge are indeed strange exceptions to our race. So where do all our heroes come from?

The public is enamored by videos of Ardi’s smoking because he is a baby acting like an adult. But in Ardi’s defense, he couldn’t be acting more like a baby! After all, what is a baby if not a little vulnerable sponge, soaking up our every mood, word, ...

There is a chain smoker who sits near me in the new office. According to Jewish law, am I allowed to ask him to stop smoking?