Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks about vaporization.

Stu

Maconheiro
Staff member
I posted this in the Herbie thread, but I think it deserves to be posted here as well. Dr. Gupta has received a lot of attention about his "about face" in his opinion about Marijuana. His recent piece on CNN called "Weed" has drawn a lot of attention to this important issue.

I think it's a great bonus that he has spoken out about the benefits of vaporization. I hope he continues.
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And to think, he was once considered for the Surgeon General. At least he did some research and admitted he was wrong.

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.

I apologize because I didn't look hard enough, until now. 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.

Instead, I lumped them with the high-visibility malingerers, just looking to get high. 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.
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MJ is a hot issue that isn't going away anytime soon. I'm optimistic it will be legal nationwide, it's just a matter of time.
 
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