THE TRUTH ABOUT GANGA COMING OUT.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a neu­ro­sur­geon and CNN’s chief med­ical correspondent.

Well know nuero­sur­geon, Sanjay Gupta made a star­tling rev­e­la­tion regard­ing Marijuana which is bound to rever­ber­ate through­out Government, Medical, Law-enforce­ment, and big busi­ness communities.

“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”.http://​www​.cnn​.com/​2​0​1​3​/​0​8​/​0​8​/​h​e​a​l​t​h​/​g​u​p​t​a​-​c​h​a​n​g​e​d​-​m​i​n​d​-​m​a​r​i​j​u​a​n​a​/​i​n​d​e​x​.​h​t​m​l​?​s​r​=​s​h​a​r​e​b​a​r​_​f​a​c​e​b​ook.

This is an eye-open­ing Article, all I can say is “WOW” I applaud Dr. Gupta for the hon­esty strength , and resolve he has shown in writ­ing this piece, even as the sci­en­tif­ic facts came to light. He could have cho­sen to remain silent, exact­ly because of the humon­gous back­lash and push-back that is sure to come from Government, law-enforce­ment, and those invest­ed in the prison Industrial com­plex. Speaking for myself even as a cop, I felt there was some­thing wrong in lock­ing away peo­ple for mar­i­jua­na a mere plant. I nev­er smoked it , but I have seen many peo­ple who have, they seem quite nor­mal, par­tic­u­lar­ly com­pared to peo­ple who use cocaine,and oth­er drugs, alco­hol or even tobac­co. It is rather refresh­ing that Dr Gupta has stepped for­ward to tell the truth. Look out Sanjay they will be com­ing at you, count­less lives have been destroyed and side­tracked because Police are allowed to arrest peo­ple alleg­ing mar­i­jua­na use and sales.

It is impor­tant for clar­i­ty, and fair­ness that I include in this Article a com­ment some­one made in anoth­er forum. Quote: I’m sure it’s com­plete­ly a coin­ci­dence that the good doc­tor recent­ly became a part own­er of a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar med­ical mar­i­jua­na dis­pen­sary in CA.(LessThanZero)  For the record we haven’t attempt­ed to find out whether Dr. Gupta has any fidu­cia­ry inter­est in the pro­duc­tion of cannabis. We also do not believe that even if he does, that that would in any way negate what he and many oth­ers have found to be sci­en­tif­ic fact.

Dr. Gupta wrote :

On August 14, 1970, the Assistant Secretary of Health, Dr. Roger O. Egeberg wrote a let­ter rec­om­mend­ing the plant, mar­i­jua­na, be clas­si­fied as a sched­ule 1 sub­stance, and it has remained that way for near­ly 45 years. My research start­ed with a care­ful read­ing of that decades old let­ter. What I found was unset­tling. Egeberg had care­ful­ly cho­sen his words: “Since there is still a con­sid­er­able void in our knowl­edge of the plant and effects of the active drug con­tained in it, our rec­om­men­da­tion is that mar­i­jua­na be retained with­in sched­ule 1 at least until the com­ple­tion of cer­tain stud­ies now under­way to resolve the issue.” Not because of sound sci­ence, but because of its absence. 

As a spec­ta­tor to this process, I am awe-struck at the amount of lives destroyed, the amount of peo­ple deport­ed from the United States, and the amount of peo­ple in pris­ons all over the world because of one rec­om­men­da­tion 45 years ago. A rec­om­men­da­tion which was made not because of sound sci­ence, but because of its absence.