Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent, has acknowledged the fact widely ignored by the mainstream media – “that the use of marijuana that could impact tens of thousands of children and adults, including treatment for cancer, epilepsy and Alzheimer’s, to name a few. With regard to pain alone, marijuana could greatly reduce the demand for narcotics and simultaneously decrease the number of accidental painkiller overdoses, which are the greatest cause of preventable death in this country.” 
“Animal studies have shown some marijuana extracts may kill certain cancer cells. Other cell studies show it may stop cancer growth, and with mice, THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, improved the impact of radiation on cancer cells. Marijuana can also prevent the nausea that often accompanies chemotherapy treatment used to treat cancer,” he admitted.
The US federal government treats possession of marijuana as a criminal act. Cannabis is classified as a Schedule I drug along with LSD, heroin, ecstasy (MDMA), and peyote, which means the government considers it to have no acceptable medical usage or value. This designation has prevented researchers from conducting clinical trials of cannabis as a treatment for cancer in humans.
“We should legalize medical marijuana. We should do it nationally. And, we should do it now,” he concluded.
But what made Gupta, who in 2009 wrote in a TIME magazine article titled “Why I would Vote No on Pot“, change his mind?
“I mistakenly believed the Drug Enforcement Agency listed marijuana as a schedule 1 substance because of sound scientific proof. 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. Take the case of Charlotte Figi, who I met in Colorado. She started having seizures soon after birth. By age 3, she was having 300 a week, despite being on seven different medications. Medical marijuana has calmed her brain, limiting her seizures to 2 or 3 per month.
“Not because of sound science, but because of its absence, marijuana was classified as a schedule 1 substance. We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that,” he confessed.
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But wait, this will cut into the pharmaceutical bank accounts in the islands and and their profits will go down and and the medical pain killer use will drop, and and no more side effects to sell more pills for… gosh, if this were to catch on then where would we be!?!? Answer: better off!!!
I hope so!!