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“Judaism prohibits the use of recreational marijuana.”
Judaism does not impose a universally accepted prohibition on recreational marijuana. Prominent Orthodox authorities prohibit it, but the Conservative movement conditionally permits recreational cannabis when lawful and medically considered safe, while prohibiting smoking it. The blanket wording therefore overstates a position that applies within important Jewish traditions but not across Judaism as a whole.
“Islam prohibits the use of recreational marijuana.”
Recreational marijuana is forbidden under the prevailing Islamic legal view because its intoxicating effects place it within the general prohibition on intoxicants. Academic analysis and contemporary legal councils support that conclusion. The qualification is that cannabis is not expressly named in the Quran or authenticated early hadith, and historical interpretation was not fully unanimous; medical necessity, non-intoxicating products and industrial hemp are separate questions.