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http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana/index.html
By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent
updated 2:39 PM EDT, Thu August 8, 2013
" CNN) -- Over the last year, I have been working on a new documentary called "Weed." The title 'Weed' may sound cavalier, but the content is not.
"I traveled around the world to interview medical leaders, experts, growers and patients. I spoke candidly to them, asking tough questions. What I found was stunning.
"Long before I began this project, I had steadily reviewed the scientific literature on medical marijuana from the United States and thought it was fairly unimpressive. Reading these papers five years ago, it was hard to make a case for medicinal marijuana. I even wrote about this in a TIME magazine article, back in 2009, titled 'Why I would Vote No on Pot.'
"Well, I am here to apologize...
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liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)This is why the federal government and the corporations will never be able to squash its use no matter how hard they try.
AmyStrange
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they are HUGE!!!
Religious people everywhere should be raising their voices in opposition to "SCREWING AROUND WITH GOD'S AWESOME GIFT TO HUMANS!!!"
Or some such nonsense, hehehe
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longship
(40,416 posts)If you cannot do that, you are not doing science. It is one of the most important aspects of that fuzzy demarcation between science and non-science.
Science actually wants to get things right and nature is a very harsh mistress.
AmyStrange
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Ivan T Sanderson (the acclaimed biologist and cryptozoologist) said it well too:
" ...The very basis of science is a healthy skepticism --one, moreover, that should question the skeptic who denies the possibility of anything just as readily as it should question the benighted traveler who dares affirm it."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_T._Sanderson
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