Sanjay Gupta: Only 6 Percent Of Marijuana Research Examines Medical Benefits
Sanjay Gupta Cubie King via Wikimedia Commons It's impressive researchers have managed to conduct even that many studies. Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgeon and CNN's chief medical correspondent, is officially down with weed. In an article for CNN, the well-known medical personality apologized for dismissing the scientific value of medical marijuana research. "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," he wrote. "We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that." Gupta, who changed his mind while in the process of making documentary on the subject, "WEED," found in a search of medical studies from the past year that only 6 percent investigated potential benefits of the drug, rather than its harms. What he failed to mention is that it's impressive that...