02-16-2017, 10:25 AM
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Talks Truth, Immorality, Opioids and Weed 4
By <span><a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://www.marijuana.com/blog/news/author/wmelevatenv/" title="Posts by Beth Schwartz of elevate Nevada">Beth Schwartz of elevate Nevada</a> </span> on <span> </span>
<span>February 16th, 2017 </span>
By <span><a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://www.marijuana.com/blog/news/author/wmelevatenv/" title="Posts by Beth Schwartz of elevate Nevada">Beth Schwartz of elevate Nevada</a> </span> on <span> </span>
<span>February 16th, 2017 </span>
Im here to tell you, as a doctor, that despite all the talk about the medical benefits of marijuana, smoking the stuff is not going to do your health any good.
Those are the words of Dr. Sanjay Gupta in a column he wrote for <a data-ipb="nomediaparse" href="http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1552034,00.html">Time </a>magazine eight years ago.
It seems hard to believe now as Dr. Gupta has become almost synonymous with cannabis as a result of his Weed documentary series on CNN (although he begs to differ about the synonymous part, but more on that later).
He was emphatic in the Time piece, surmising of those voting to legalize marijuana in 2009 in Nevada and Colorado that many of them just want to get stoned legally. Thats why I, like many other doctors, am unimpressed with the proposed legislation, which would legalize marijuana irrespective of any medical condition.
Three Weed documentaries later (2013, 2014 and 2015) and with a fourth on the way later this year, having clearly changed his stance, Dr. Gupta is, today, just as emphatic about the medicinal and healing value of cannabis....
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