This Sunday, President Obama is expected to voice his support for allowing medical marijuana and moving away from jailing people for drug abuse.
The Daily Caller reports:
In a CNN special to be aired on Sunday, not only will President Barack Obama state his full support of medical marijuana, he’ll also advocate for alternative models of drug abuse treatment which don’t involve incarceration.
The television special, called “Weed 3,” features CNN’s chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon…
CNN reports today that it's not just the network's medical expert Dr. Sanjay Gupta who has come around on marijuana policy reform.
[caption id="attachment_6862" align="alignright" width="104"] Beau Kilmer[/caption]
The nation has moved from the abstract matter of "if" to the more tangible debate over "how," said Beau Kilmer, co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center and co-author of "Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know."
Changing attitudes about…
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CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has spent the last year creating an investigative report on marijuana, and the former critic of marijuana policy reform has changed his mind drastically on the subject.
On Wednesday night, Dr. Gupta told Piers Morgan that "We've been terribly and systematically misled in this country for some time and I did part of that misleading,” when it comes to marijuana…