{"id":2081,"date":"2013-08-16T03:36:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T03:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=21219"},"modified":"2013-08-16T03:36:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T03:36:20","slug":"celebrity-doctor-sanjay-gupta-reverses-position-on-medical-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/celebrity-doctor-sanjay-gupta-reverses-position-on-medical-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Physician Sanjay Gupta Reverses Position on Medicinal Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/celebrity-doctor-sanjay-gupta-reverses-position-on-medical-marijuana\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"226\" height=\"223\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sanjay-gupta1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"sanjay gupta\" title=\"sanjay gupta\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt mso-fareast-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot mso-bidi-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-21220\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/celebrity-doctor-sanjay-gupta-reverses-position-on-medical-marijuana\/attachment\/sanjay-gupta-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-21220\" title=\"sanjay gupta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sanjay-gupta1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>An advanced of medical and scientific understanding, clearly separate physicians\u00a0the from others, though character traits don&#8217;t. \u00a0Doctors could be persistent, and possibly even much more than an average joe at certain occasions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt mso-fareast-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot mso-bidi-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> <\/span>Dr. Sanjay Gupta is showing is simply how much personality can infiltrate an expert opinion. \u00a0I personally enjoy a lot of what Dr. Gupta needs to say in the posts and looks as CNN&#8217;s chief medical correspondent. \u00a0However, \u00a0it have been apparent he had skipped the boat on medicinal marijuana. \u00a0In 2009, he notoriously authored an item for Time entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1552034,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: blue\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"color: blue\"> <\/span>Why I&#8217;d Election No on Pot<span style=\"color: blue\">&#8220;<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0In in he signifies that marijuana lacks medical effectiveness regardless of the considerable amount of evidence provided by his peers within the health care industry.\u00a0 In another section he states \u201cI\u2019m constantly amazed that in the end these years\u2013and all of the wars on drugs and all sorts of public-service announcements\u2013nearly 15 million People in america still use marijuana at least one time per month.\u201d\u00a0 At that time, many were amazed he experienced no curiosity within an apparent culture change.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt mso-fareast-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot mso-bidi-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot\">Dr. \u00a0Gupta has become altering his mind. \u00a0He accepted not to researching enough around the problem and lately told <a href=\"http:\/\/piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: blue\">Piers Morgan<\/span><\/a> &#8220;I&#8217;ve apologized for a few of the earlier confirming since i think, you realize, we have been terribly and methodically fooled within this country for many , and that i did a part of that misleading.&#8221; \u00a0That is really a candid admission and that we at <a href=\"http:\/\/marijuana.net\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: blue\">marijuana.internet<\/span><\/a> applaud him.\u00a0 Also, he lately published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/08\/health\/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why I transformed my thoughts on weed&#8221;<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\" target=\"_blank\">CNN.com<\/a> However, \u00a0when one really wants to contain the layer of national television physician, \u00a0stubbornness and idleness( meaning of not doing the study) is unacceptable. \u00a0In a shorter period than he likely allocated to this year&#8217;s article, \u00a0Dr. Gupta might have found an abundance of information, research, and recommendations that highlight the medical advantages of marijuana.\u00a0 <br \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt mso-fareast-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot mso-bidi-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot\">Dr. Gupta&#8217;s admission may highlight a much deeper problem than simply one man&#8217;s misjudgment. \u00a0Medical doctors frequently appear to achieve the least understanding on medicinal marijuana. \u00a0How will a physician know they&#8217;re against cure with no significant understanding from the problem? \u00a0 It appears our training if doctors is missing and shuts out any remedies that aren&#8217;t considered conventional. \u00a0Administrators managing medical schools might have to consider training doctors to pay attention. \u00a0All from the levels on the planet don&#8217;t disqualify a lot of patient testimonies. \u00a0Did Dr. Gupta feel numerous patients was together in conspiracy all avenues of life to get hold of marijuana?\u00a0 Hopefully his recent admission may even further accelerate the marijuana reform discussion and influence policy makers.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt mso-fareast-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot mso-bidi-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot\">If our doctors would be the last to become up-to-date on modern remedies then just what performs this say about modern American medicine? \u00a0Doctors, typically, are highly intelligent people. Using the information age under way they are able to longer hide behind levels along with a fraternity of individuals knowledgable. \u00a0All people have access to to scientific information. \u00a0This does not necessarily mean we ought to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: blue\">WebMD<\/span><\/a> and self identify,\u00a0but it will mean doctors might have to leave their safe place and explain their rationale a little more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"226\" height=\"223\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sanjay-gupta1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"sanjay gupta\" title=\"sanjay gupta\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt mso-fareast-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot mso-bidi-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-21220\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/celebrity-doctor-sanjay-gupta-reverses-position-on-medical-marijuana\/attachment\/sanjay-gupta-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-21220\" title=\"sanjay gupta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sanjay-gupta1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>An advanced of medical and scientific understanding, clearly separate physicians\u00a0the from others, though character traits don&#8217;t. \u00a0Doctors could be persistent, and possibly even much more than an average joe at certain occasions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt mso-fareast-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot mso-bidi-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"> <\/span>Dr. Sanjay Gupta is showing is simply how much personality can infiltrate an expert opinion. \u00a0I personally enjoy a lot of what Dr. Gupta needs to say in the posts and looks as CNN&#8217;s chief medical correspondent. \u00a0However, \u00a0it have been apparent he had skipped the boat on medicinal marijuana. \u00a0In 2009, he notoriously authored an item for Time entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1552034,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: blue\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"color: blue\"> <\/span>Why I&#8217;d Election No on Pot<span style=\"color: blue\">&#8220;<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0In in he signifies that marijuana lacks medical effectiveness regardless of the considerable amount of evidence provided by his peers within the health care industry.\u00a0 In another section he states \u201cI\u2019m constantly amazed that in the end these years\u2013and all of the wars on drugs and all sorts of public-service announcements\u2013nearly 15 million People in america still use marijuana at least one time per month.\u201d\u00a0 At that time, many were amazed he experienced no curiosity within an apparent culture change.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt mso-fareast-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot mso-bidi-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot\">Dr. \u00a0Gupta has become altering his mind. \u00a0He accepted not to researching enough around the problem and lately told <a href=\"http:\/\/piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: blue\">Piers Morgan<\/span><\/a> &#8220;I&#8217;ve apologized for a few of the earlier confirming since i think, you realize, we have been terribly and methodically fooled within this country for many , and that i did a part of that misleading.&#8221; \u00a0That is really a candid admission and that we at <a href=\"http:\/\/marijuana.net\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: blue\">marijuana.internet<\/span><\/a> applaud him.\u00a0 Also, he lately published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/08\/health\/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why I transformed my thoughts on weed&#8221;<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\" target=\"_blank\">CNN.com<\/a> However, \u00a0when one really wants to contain the layer of national television physician, \u00a0stubbornness and idleness( meaning of not doing the study) is unacceptable. \u00a0In a shorter period than he likely allocated to this year&#8217;s article, \u00a0Dr. Gupta might have found an abundance of information, research, and recommendations that highlight the medical advantages of marijuana.\u00a0 <br \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt mso-fareast-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot mso-bidi-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot\">Dr. Gupta&#8217;s admission may highlight a much deeper problem than simply one man&#8217;s misjudgment. \u00a0Medical doctors frequently appear to achieve the least understanding on medicinal marijuana. \u00a0How will a physician know they&#8217;re against cure with no significant understanding from the problem? \u00a0 It appears our training if doctors is missing and shuts out any remedies that aren&#8217;t considered conventional. \u00a0Administrators managing medical schools might have to consider training doctors to pay attention. \u00a0All from the levels on the planet don&#8217;t disqualify a lot of patient testimonies. \u00a0Did Dr. Gupta feel numerous patients was together in conspiracy all avenues of life to get hold of marijuana?\u00a0 Hopefully his recent admission may even further accelerate the marijuana reform discussion and influence policy makers.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt mso-fareast-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot mso-bidi-font-family: &#038;quotTimes New Roman&#038;quot\">If our doctors would be the last to become up-to-date on modern remedies then just what performs this say about modern American medicine? \u00a0Doctors, typically, are highly intelligent people. Using the information age under way they are able to longer hide behind levels along with a fraternity of individuals knowledgable. \u00a0All people have access to to scientific information. \u00a0This does not necessarily mean we ought to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: blue\">WebMD<\/span><\/a> and self identify,\u00a0but it will mean doctors might have to leave their safe place and explain their rationale a little more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,596,2048,56,9,51,1863,70,1,3,61,2049,2050],"tags":[2632,3169,4616,2636,2631,4431,5,6,4617,4618],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}