Why I changed my mind on weed

[AmyStrange]

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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

&quot 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]

1. it's farily obvious to anyone who knows someone whose suffering has been alleviated by it.

This is why the federal government and the corporations will never be able to squash its use no matter how hard they try.

[AmyStrange]

2. not to mention the commercial uses...

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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]

3. Science is all about having the willingness to say you were wrong.

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]

4. Well said...

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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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