we have been listening to drug abuse centers saying how bad marijuana is for people and how addicting it is, and how it makes you want to get into more drugs, WELL YOU ARE FINALLY MADE WRONG BY CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT !!!!

 

It helps people that are seeing signs of dementia and altz, the memory loss, and such with writing and learning about things...I also have grand ma seizures from epilepsy that I have been on medication, the only thing that stops seizures for me, and medical marijuana helps brain function and activity enough for medication to work.  Doctors put me on less, was taking 400 mg in morning and 400 mg at night of, tegretol 200 mg tablets, because my level was so high dropped me down to 600 mg in the morning.  This was not good, that night time dose was almost a backup for the morning so i didn't have to worry about my morning dose, now that I just have the morning dose I am aware that I don't have that backup, but smoking marijuana makes me relax, I have even had a surgeon tell me when he discharged me out of the hospital, try your marijuana first if it doesn't work take the pain medication he gave me....I was really amazed...I thought I would get into trouble telling a doctor, but with the pain I have, 4 screws. 2 rods, 2 connection plates, rubber hoses for arteries, and now pain from a screwed up mesh operation, with no pain management because good ole Unison 'UNISCUM" as we called it, but they changed to United wouldn't allow my pain management to do nerve blocks on my spine that didn't need surgery to begin with and the back surgeon wasted 2 years screwing me up while the problem was really no blood flow to my legs, this after I saw "abnormal aorta for person of this age" on my chart before I had the first surgery and asked 2 different doctors could this be it? they both said no I was too young (25) for this....

the state said that the nerve blocks were experimental, well experiment on me, should have been paid for that if it was experimental not told that the companies that took over medicaid were not going to pay for  a pain management doctor do what relieved pain, they would rather prescribe me morphine up to 120 mg a day that really didn't work would be good enough....then they didn't pay for the service that I had 3 state hearings about to have, so the doctor told me I couldn't be his patient, and for the last 6 years I can't get pain relief at all....marijuana is a savior, the drug companies don't want it legalized cause they will loose a lot of money, because it is natural they don't have anything to make...oh also a great way to stop smoking, I have been smoke free (cig) for the last 6years....so don't say MARIJUANA DOESN'T DO ANYTHING MEDICALLY

"It doesn't have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications."

If the phase is familiar, it is directly from the Schedule I classification of the Controlled Substances Act and the reason that marijuana is strictly illegal: because bureaucrats and politicians say so as they say that further research on the matter is forbidden.  That's a page out of a medieval edict in the times of witches.

As Dr. Gupta says, "We have been terribly and systematically misled [about marijuana] for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that."

The glimmer of a new day on the horizon glows brighter for sufferers of drug prohibition thanks to such professionals.

Prohibition does nothing to prevent people from getting drugs for recreational purposes while only managing to keep those drugs from the people who really need them. When you consider that some banned substances really have medicinal properties, you have to acknowledge that denying medicine to those in great need is no different to beating someone with a stick and holding them under water. It is mass torture and mass murder of our loved ones at a time when they are most in need of help. And it happens as a result of wide spread persecution of the poor and minority groups. This persecution results in loss of liberty and psychological trauma to many and the breaking of family and community bonds.Prohibition is a "Crime Against Humanity". Legalize! Apologize! Compensate! Prosecute the perpetrators!

If this guy believed one thing out of the criminal corporate syndicate masquerading as a "federal government," he's an idiot, and nobody should give a damn what he has to say at this point. Period. And he's a CNN type? Jesus Tapdancing Christ.

I give the brother credit for waking up to reality . What gets me , is why was a " Doctor " looking to Law Enforcement for " Health " advice ? When you get sick , do you go to the Police Dept . or to the Doctor`s office ? Cannabis prohibition has been a satanic sham on the public since its inception . If you can`t see the forest for the tree`s , then maybe a good Sativa could open your eye`s .

while im glad he switched sides, i think he just wanted to stay relevant. people with status only change their minds when they feel pressured to.

Yes, Dr. Gupta's revelation about marijuana is both long overdue but still refreshing. It is now that much harder for the best politicians money can buy to lie for the profiteers of marijuana prohibition.

 

 

Mainstream media is getting on board in a huge way over the last couple of weeks.  But will it last?  If only this had happened in early 2013 we may have seen at least one other state join Colorado and Washington.  Oh well, good things are worth waiting for, I suppose.

this guy tells truth.Hes not intimidated about the bullshit the dea tries to shove down mot peoples throat.BRAVO FOR TRUTH 

This is supposed to be an educated man, who's completely taken by surprise that an herb, NOT A DRUG, (drugs are manufactured with hazardous waste, petroleum by-products, and toxic sludge) isn't harmful to humans? He sounds so confused in the program that what he's been TOLD by people he listens to, is complete and utter bull shit. Almost like he didn't want to believe his own research. Sad.  Herbs grow naturally, dumb ass. Glad to see he's getting a clue, though.

I am a registered nurse, a mother of 2 toddlers and a chronically ill patient. I have been recently diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, of which I suffer from tremendously, on a daily basis. I believe I should have the option of using marijuana if and when my doctor recommends it (which she does!)! That is MY FREEDOM... My freedom from the body that tortures me AND my poor family so much... Every single day. If medical marijuana can allow me to walk again... Cook a healthy meal for my babies... Contribute POSITIVELY to society and perhaps even be able to WORK again, then why can't I have a chance to use this THERAPY? With a doctors recommendation, at that!?! I feel America needs to come out of this prohibition-style thinking and realize that there are VALID medical uses for this drug. I would very much like your support on this issue.. My struggling family would too, as it would mean having their Mommy back and not zoned out constantly on all these narcotic pain medications. The AP just released a statement from the Obama administration saying that they would not sue or inhibit Washington state and Colorado from legalizing RECREATIONAL marijuana use. If that is the case, then WHY ARE APPROPRIATE AND VALID MEDICAL USERS OF MARIJUANA IN OUR COUNTRY CONTINUING TO BE CRIMINALIZED AND STIGMATIZED FOR SEEKING TO RELIEVE THEIR DAILY TORMENT FROM A BODY RAVAGED WITH REAL, GENUINE DISEASE!?! I do not understand how treating a medical condition in one state can land u in prison, while just a few miles across the state border u can simply GET HIGH... Just because u feel the need arise and are free from criminal prosecution and financial torture by the court system! I simply feel this is unfair, and not only that but it infringes HEAVILY upon my personal freedoms, and my rights to valid medical treatments, and it puts up a roadblock to a good quality if life for me as well as my entire family with my type of chronic diagnosis. We need to rally together... Throw all stigmas aside and allow doctors and patients to choose therapies for themselves, tailored to patients individual needs and lives. We have taken the CARE out of patient care... And have allowed beurocrats to legislate treatment! Let us put the care back into the mix... stop the Hippocracy across state lines in this divided country, and let us instead uplift humanity by giving patients and families CHOICES instead of tearing down the American family by forcing narcotic addiction on individuals (or else continue to suffer) ... All in the name of an archaic stereotype of marijuana users reminiscent of the "Reefer Madness" days of half a century ago...

what this idiot should be forced to do is to pay for 100s of billboards around the country for the total legalization of marijuana  but since that is a pipe dream i guess i have to do it myself.  i have never seen a billboard anywhere saying anything pro pot ever. why?