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"We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that," said Gupta in his CNN article titled "Why I Changed My Mind on Weed." He adds, "I didn't look far enough. I didn't review papers from smaller labs in other countries doing some remarkable research, and I was too dismissive of the loud chorus of legitimate patients whose symptoms improved on cannabis."Sanjay Gupta, CNN.
Flere og flere læger får øjnene op for Cannabis uskadelighed, samtidig med de er blevet klar over de er blevet vildledt af regeringer og FN igennem årtier omkring Cannabis's. Især de meget mindre skadevirkninger det har end alle andre rusmidler.
En hel anden side af det, er erkendelsen hos ledende læger, internationalt, af Cannabis utallige medicinske værdier. Bekæmpelse af Cancer er et af de store områder hvor forskningen mangler.
Jeg vedlægger en artikel og en undskyldning fra en af de mest respketerede læger i verdenen. Rådgiver til Obama og Chef for den Medicinske redaktion af CNN.
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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Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent, has changed his mind and now supports medical marijuana. His shift from con to pro came with a lengthy apology.
"We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that," said Gupta in his CNN article titled "Why I Changed My Mind on Weed." He adds, "I didn't look far enough. I didn't review papers from smaller labs in other countries doing some remarkable research, and I was too dismissive of the loud chorus of legitimate patients whose symptoms improved on cannabis."
Gupta, an Emory University neurosurgeon who was considered for US Surgeon General in 2009, had written an op-ed in TIME magazine on Jan. 8, 2009 titled "Why I Would Vote No on Pot," in which he outlined his case against medical marijuana. In it, he claimed to have "steadily reviewed the scientific literature on medical marijuana" and found it lacking. Gupta now says marijuana "doesn't have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, marijuana is sometimes the only thing that works."
He added that marijuana has a lower potential for addiction compared to tobacco or cocaine, and reiterated his concerns about marijuana's effect on the brains of developing adolescents.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in a statement opposing medical marijuana, said: "There is currently sound evidence that smoked marijuana is harmful. A past evaluation by several Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration(SAMHSA) and National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA), concluded that no sound scientific studies supported medical use of marijuana for treatment in the United States, and no animal or human data supported the safety or efficacy of marijuana for general medical use."
Medical marijuana is currently legal in 20 states and the District of Columbia. As of Aug. 1, 2013, four states (Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania) have pending legislation to legalize medical marijuana.
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