Dr. Sanjay Gupta Publicly Apologizes For Being SO WRONG About Medical Marijuana (video)

[angelatc]

TV fame is now a prerequisite to be the SG.........

Lord help us!



Hey............Marcus Welby for office!

He's also an accomplished neurosurgeon , a professor at a medical school and a high ranking staffer at Emory. He's not the typical shallow TV talking head.

If TV propaganda didn't work, they wouldn't do it. It's an incredibly effective tool for molding public opinion.

 

[Cleaner44]

+ rep for Dr Gupta for doing the right thing and admitting some truth.

 

[jct74]

this is a really big story on HuffPo for some reason, haha.

Sanjay Gupta Apologizes For 'Misleading' Public About Weed (VIDEO)

By Jack Mirkinson
Posted: 08/08/2013 9:19 am EDT

CNN's chief medical expert Sanjay Gupta announced Wednesday night that he has reversed his blanket opposition to marijuana use.

Speaking to Piers Morgan, Gupta, who has a documentary on weed airing on Sunday, said he had previously helped to "mislead" the American public about the effects of the drug.

"I have apologized for some of the earlier reporting because I think, you know, we've been terribly and systematically misled in this country for some time," he said. "And I did part of that misleading."

He also wrote an op-ed called "Why I Changed My Mind On Weed." In it, he said that, while he had formerly derided medical marijuana supporters, he had done research that had shown him how beneficial it could be:

I mistakenly believed the Drug Enforcement Agency listed marijuana as a schedule 1 substance because of sound scientific proof. Surely, they must have quality reasoning as to why marijuana is in the category of the most dangerous drugs that have "no accepted medicinal use and a high potential for abuse."

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.​

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/08/sanjay-gupta-weed-apology_n_3725380.html

 

[jct74]

here is a link to his CNN editorial mentioned in the HuffPo article

Why I changed my mind on weed

By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent
August 8, 2013 -- Updated 1603 GMT (0003 HKT)

(CNN) -- 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.

I apologize because I didn't look hard enough, until now. I didn't look far enough. I didn't review papers from smaller labs in other countries doing some remarkable research, and I was too dismissive of the loud chorus of legitimate patients whose symptoms improved on cannabis.

...

We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that.

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read more:
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana/index.html

 

[Occam's Banana]

No its not. Consensus is when all the data comes together (RCTs, Epidemiology, trials) and is compared and contrasted. Then they come up with a general opinion from all the common fact made. Thats how science is done [...]

Yes it is. What you are talking about is the engineering of a "consensus of scientists" in extending, refining and/or confirming what is already (believed to be) known or understood in general principle and within the context of contemporarily accepted theory. What I am talking about is the extension of what is already known and the discovery of what is not already known via the development of fundamentally new principles and theories. The invocation of "scientific consensus" in counter to such new principles and theories is inherently contradictory to the nature of science - which is why it is a contradiction in terms. (Nature is not democratic and the laws of reality are not "majority rules" ...)

IOW: I am not talking about scientific refinements (as important as those may be) - I am talking about genuine scientific advances, which, by their nature, are always consensus-breaking and paradigm-shifting. (See: Newton, Semmelweis, Mendel, Dalton, Planck, Einstein, Wegener, etc.)

 

[Root]

Readers should ask themselves, "if we're being misled about cannabis, what else are they misleading us about"?

 

[VoluntaryAmerican]

MSM is changing its tune on marijuana-- I don't believe for a second this asshole Dr. didn't know the benefits. He said what his masters wanted him to say.

 

[donnay]

Technically, cannabis is a fruit.

The forbidden fruit.

 

[dannno]

While a cancer study may first be evaluated by the National Cancer Institute, or a pain study may go through the National Institute for Neurological Disorders, there is one more approval required for marijuana: NIDA, the National Institute on Drug Abuse. It is an organization that has a core mission of studying drug abuse, as opposed to benefit.

Well that's interesting.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Cannabis isn't actually a drug. It's just a plant. I suppose if you eat too many tomatoes that also has long term and side effects, but it's ridiculously silly to worry about them.

Technically, cannabis is a fruit.

Very closely related to hops. Extra IPA is not a drug either...

 

[JK/SEA]

winning.

 

[MrTudo]

Gupta's dramatic intervention could prove influential in the ongoing debate about American drug policy; he is considered a prominent enough voice on medical issues that President Obama wanted to name him Surgeon General during his first term. (Gupta declined.)

 

[green73]

MSM is changing its tune on marijuana-- I don't believe for a second this asshole Dr. didn't know the benefits. He said what his masters wanted him to say.

yep.

 

[WhistlinDave]

Gupta has a ton of credibility and huge influence over public opinion. I don't care how or why he got to his current view, I'm just stoked as hell to hear him saying what he's saying now. Having this guy as an advocate for loosening laws on cannabis is HUGE in my opinion.

He was just on Wolf Blitzer a minute ago talking about how the government says with Schedule I there's "no accepted medical use" while the Federal government holds a patent on medical marijuana for use as a neuroprotectant. He said "This is hypocrisy." WOOOOOT!!!!

I can't wait to see his whole special this Sunday night. I think this is going to kick ass.

 

[jct74]

He was just on Wolf Blitzer a minute ago talking about how the government says with Schedule I there's "no accepted medical use" while the Federal government holds a patent on medical marijuana for use as a neuroprotectant. He said "This is hypocrisy." WOOOOOT!!!!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjr-t8HEKFc

 

[Zippyjuan]

He is a TV doctor like Dr. Oz. Many sheeple listen to these doctors. Dr. Oz tells you to go get your annual flu shot--but he forgets to fully disclose to his audience that he has lots of stock in SIGA Technologies a vaccine technology company.

Ron Paul owns gold stocks and promotes people buying gold. He would like to use gold to back the dollar. (SIGA Technologies doesn't make vaccines).

http://www.siga.com/about-siga/

About SIGA

In the US and around the globe, populations face a serious but unmet need for new drugs to protect against potentially catastrophic emerging viral pathogens and biological weapons of mass destruction. SIGA Technologies is a pharmaceutical company specializing in developing therapeutic solutions for some of the most lethal pathogens – variola (smallpox), Ebola, dengue, Lassa fever and other dangerous viruses. Our business is to discover and develop drugs to prevent and treat these high-priority threats. Our mission is to create robust, modern countermeasures to dreaded viral diseases.

The company has developed a discovery platform that has shown promise with many pathogens. The process relies on the use of high-throughput screening (HTS) and chemi-informatic systems to identify lead candidates.

With strong working relationships with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)), the Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal agencies, SIGA believes it is a leading biodefense drug development company today.

According to the SEC filing, he was AWARDED stock OPTIONS- which are the right to purchase stocks at a given price. There is no indication in that paper that he exercised those options to actually purchase stock (stock options are a common form of compensation for company directors). http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/own-disp?action=getowner&CIK=0001139299&sortid=period-of-report-ASC

Just one line of info:

A-Award --D 10000.0000 150000.0000 1 0001010086 Stock Option (Right to buy)

He does have until May 13th, 2019 to exercise the last of the options listed there. He could actually buy the shares up until that time. If he doesn't, the options expire. (the share price in stock option is usually below market price of the shares- the person gets to keep the difference between the option price and whateve the price is when he exercises the options- the higher the stock goes, the more money a person can make on it- supposed to encourage board members to try to increase share prices in a company).

According to this link, http://uk.passfail.com/siga/executive/mehmet-c-oz/mehmet-c-oz.htm#MD_About he does own 25,000 shares worth about $87,000. Given that he is worth about $14 million, that is not much money. http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celebrity-business/richest-doctors/dr-oz-net-worth/

 

[Anti Federalist]

Readers should ask themselves, "if we're being misled about cannabis, what else are they misleading us about"?

Thread winner.

I wait, with bated breath, similar stories from important figures in politics that have been ceaselessly boosting for the welfare/warfare/surveillance state.

 

[MrTudo]

He should atone by joining the fight to legalize. That would be the right thing to do. The least he can do actually. Will he do it or just disappear after sunday night?

 

[donnay]

He should atone by joining the fight to legalize. That would be the right thing to do. The least he can do actually. Will he do it or just disappear after sunday night?

I don't need a crystal ball to know just where this is heading. WhistlinDave (in post #34) already posted an important point to all this: "...the Federal government holds a patent on medical marijuana." The federal government is the enforcement arm of Big pHARMa.

Dr. Gupta is not advocating for legalization or decriminalizing marijuana he is advocating "medical marijuana" as a controlled substance.

Meanwhile there are people in jail who were caught with marijuana on them serving life sentences. To me this is all a distraction--Dr. Sonjay Gupta is out stumping for Big pHARMa.