NEW YORK (AP) — CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta says he spoke too soon in opposing the medical use of marijuana in the past and that he now believes the drug can have very real benefits for people with specific health problems.
Gupta, the network's chief medical correspondent and a brain surgeon, detailed his change of heart in an interview Friday and in an article for CNN's website titled, "Why I changed my mind on weed." He will narrate a documentary on the topic that will air on the network Sunday.
He wrote in Time magazine in 2009 about his opposition to laws that would make the drug available for medical purposes. "Smoking the stuff is not going to do your health any good," he wrote then. But Gupta said Friday he too easily associated marijuana with "malingerers that just wanted to get high."
Now he wants to say he's sorry.
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4 comments:
Gee, do ya think?
Well damn, it must be so if San Jay says it is!
The next time you see Sanjay on TV,notice how his appearance has changed.His eyes are always bulging out,like he has lost a great deal of weight,and not a healthy look either.
He watched "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and thought that everyone who smoked pot was a slow talking, air-headed loser. Then, moving in the social circles he does, he likely came across some heart surgeons or brain surgeons, maybe a few lawyers or Senators, who smoked pot and he came to realize that the propaganda was just that. Started thinking for himself instead of hysterically repeating what he (and the rest of America) has been told (by people who hysterically repeated what THEY were told). Now, all you addicts, go have a cigarette. Or a martini.
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