Culture | January 06, 2009 | 8 comments

Sanjay Gupta 2006 : "Why I Would Vote No On Pot"

source: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1552034,00.html

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Maybe it's because I was born a couple of months after Woodstock and wasn't around when marijuana was as common as iPods are today, but I'm constantly amazed that after all these years--and all the wars on drugs and all the public-service announcements--nearly 15 million Americans still use marijuana at least once a month. California and 10 other states have already decriminalized marijuana for medical use. Now two of those states--Colorado and Nevada--are considering ballot initiatives that would legalize up to an ounce of pot for personal use by people 21 and older, whether or not there is a medical need.

This article contains soooo much misinformation re: Cannabis that it is almost hard to believe that it was written by an actual Physician...and potential Surgeon General.
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8 comments // Sanjay Gupta 2006 : "Why I Would Vote No On Pot"

  • jaykey
  • unimatrix0
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      unimatrix0  

    • Gupta is very disappointing. I do not understand why he would favor the continuation of criminal sanctions in relation to marijuana.

      As a man of medicine he should argue for a medical, rather than a criminal, approach.

      His stance is intellectually hypocritical unless he favors criminalizing all forms of intoxication.

    • 3 years ago
  • unimatrix0
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      unimatrix0  

    • Any reputable authority must acknowledge that alcohol is far more dangerous than marijuana. And by that reasoning it only makes sense to legalize and even encourage THC intoxication over alcohol intoxication.

    • 3 years ago
  • RaceBannon
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      RaceBannon  

    • He's not myopic. if he goes to washington talking all this "legalize it" stuff, then who from the prison lobby (no seriously we have a f-ing prison lobby, its almost a joke) would support him? Dr Gupta has to eat, even if a bunch of kids go to jail.

    • 3 years ago
  • iloveravi
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      iloveravi  

    • Scary. He goes on to list a lot of benefit of medicinal pot but then says he's still against it because people just want to get stoned.

      What a fucking asshole.

      He is basically saying he would rather aids and cancer patients being forced to break the law in order to get their meds than allow them legal access because he's morally opposed to getting high.

      He talks about the dangers of driving stoned....well yeah, you fucking jerk, you shouldn't drive stoned, and you shouldn't drive drunk, and you shouldn't drive while on cold medication either.

      The article is a bunch of contradictions in logic.

      This guy is a shit head.

      There are hundreds of more dangerous drugs being openly marketed by pharmaceutical companies in the USA and he is doing op-eds on pot.

      Fuck Gupta. He's an asshole.

    • 3 years ago
  • chokolat3warmth
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      chokolat3warmth  

    • they dont live in a cave. It is us who are kept in a cave by them. Obviously they dont want to decriminalize marijuana everywhere, the governments profit way to much from illeagal drug traffiking to pay for secret wars and dictators around the world.

      If it became legal, less of the youth would be sedated, and would probably be way more active in the revolution.
      It would also put more money and free medicine in peoples hands because anyone can grow this plant, and the medical drug cartels for sure do not want this.

    • 3 years ago
  • iloveravi
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      iloveravi  
    • chokolat3warmth:

      I doubt that but they are profiting from a huge prison system that has a population that has about 60% there for drug related charges.

      The Prison industry has a huge workforce that is controlled by very powerful unions that lobby very successfully for stricter laws and longer sentences that allow them more work and more money.

      It's fucked up but it is the reason the USA has the world's largest prison population and the most people in jail per capita.

    • 3 years ago
  • Robroy1
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