Sanjay Gupta er en højt respekteret læge og og ledende sunhedsjournalist hos CNN.
Han føler sig pinligt ramt på sin professionelle stolthed. Han havde troet Cannabis var skidt for folk og uden medicinsk værdi.
Det mener han ikke mere. Læs artiklen og nyd de to video link til programmet der blev sendt på CNN og et interview og en debat med en modstander.
USA har 20 stater medical marijuana, 2 af dem endda "recreational marijuana" og den føderale regering i Washington har tilladt at de legalisrer det indenfor visse grundrammer.
CNN's chief medical expert Sanjay Gupta announced Wednesday night that he has reversed his blanket opposition to marijuana use.
Speaking to Piers Morgan, Gupta, who has a documentary on weed airing on Sunday, said he had previously helped to "mislead" the American public about the effects of the drug.
"I have apologized for some of the earlier reporting because I think, you know, we've been terribly and systematically misled in this country for some time," he said. "And I did part of that misleading."
He also wrote an op-ed called "Why I Changed My Mind On Weed." In it, he said that, while he had formerly derided medical marijuana supporters, he had done research that had shown him how beneficial it could be:
I mistakenly believed the Drug Enforcement Agency listed marijuana as a schedule 1 substance because of sound scientific proof. Surely, they must have quality reasoning as to why marijuana is in the category of the most dangerous drugs that have "no accepted medicinal use and a high potential for abuse."They didn't have the science to support that claim, and I now know that when it comes to marijuana neither of those things are true. It doesn't have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes marijuana is the only thing that works.
Gupta's dramatic intervention could prove influential in the ongoing debate about American drug policy; he is considered a prominent enough voice on medical issues that President Obama wanted to name him Surgeon General during his first term. (Gupta declined.)
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