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Showing Original Post only (View all)CNN's Sanjay Gupta: We've been misled about cannabis [View all]
Gupta apologized on CNN for his former opposition to ending the prohibition of marijuana, stating the DEA has "no scientific basis" for the claim that marijuana has no medical value.
Thank you, Mr. Gupta, for using your position to bring sanity to this issue in the U.S.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/07/cnns-sanjay-gupta-americans-terribly-and-systematically-misled-about-marijuana/
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He admits his mistake now, when it is relatively safe to do so from a public relations standpoint...
markpkessinger
Aug 2013
#102
... big pharma must be getting closer to genetic replication & Copyrighting ....
Myrina
Aug 2013
#29
how many lives have been ruined by this bullshit? how much money has been made on drug war?
spanone
Aug 2013
#32
Good for Gupta, he stopped lying! I think the seizure patients make it hard for
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2013
#35
I was having serious emotional side effects from the chronic back/neck/arm pain from
kestrel91316
Aug 2013
#52
Too much is at stake for big brother to fully decriminalize cannabis, for all that funding
indepat
Aug 2013
#54
It's helpful if you can trust him and I dont. He wanted so badly to be Surgeon General
rhett o rick
Aug 2013
#127
But think about it. "he didnt do his homework"? This man is supposed to be brilliant, and
rhett o rick
Aug 2013
#79
More like, "I realize my credibility is suffering because I'm lumped in with this other idiot."
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2013
#93
Their new argument- you can tell the rationale is failing- is "its very unlikely that a pot smoker
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2013
#122