Q. Re- your questions 1595-1598 on permitted liquid marijuana tincture drops for one that is medically recommended in its use. Can you be yoitze with shalach manos if you send a vial of the tincture since it will be very appreciated, or maybe it is only a small amount and less than a shiur. Also it may not be considered food, since as you mentioned when placed in the mouth, you don’t make a brocho?
Would you be yoitze if you send perfume or aromatic oil that you rub on, since sicha keshtia (anointing is like eating)
A. Mishna Berura (695: 20) rules that you only comply the mitzva of Shalach Monos with food you eat or drink. One also does not comply with tobacco products one smokes or smells (Nitei Gavriel 59: 3).
Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that even when permitted, you do not comply with drugs, medicines, perfumes or ointments and chewing tobacco, only with actual food or drink.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a
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