Another expert admits there is no scientific case against medical marijuana!

Another nail in the coffin of the Drug War!  CNN's Sanjay Gupta has changed his mind and now supports medical marijuana, admitting that there is no sound scientific proof against it and much in favor of it!  A quote:

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. - See more at: http://blog.norml.org/2013/08/08/cnns-sanjay-gupta-apologizes-for-past-opposition-delivers-full-throated-defense-of-medical-marijuana/#sthash.jzkPzCa5.dpuf

 They didn't have the science to support that claim, and now I 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. [my emphasis]

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. - See more at: http://blog.norml.org/2013/08/08/cnns-sanjay-gupta-apologizes-for-past-opposition-delivers-full-throated-defense-of-medical-marijuana/#sthash.jzkPzCa5.dpuf

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. - See more at: http://blog.norml.org/2013/08/08/cnns-sanjay-gupta-apologizes-for-past-opposition-delivers-full-throated-defense-of-medical-marijuana/#sthash.jzkPzCa5.dpuf

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. - See more at: http://blog.norml.org/2013/08/08/cnns-sanjay-gupta-apologizes-for-past-opposition-delivers-full-throated-defense-of-medical-marijuana/#sthash.jzkPzCa5.dpuf

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. - See more at: http://blog.norml.org/2013/08/08/cnns-sanjay-gupta-apologizes-for-past-opposition-delivers-full-throated-defense-of-medical-marijuana/#sthash.jzkPzCa5.dpuf

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. - See more at: http://blog.norml.org/2013/08/08/cnns-sanjay-gupta-apologizes-for-past-opposition-delivers-full-throated-defense-of-medical-marijuana/#sthash.jzkPzCa5.dpuf

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. - See more at: http://blog.norml.org/2013/08/08/cnns-sanjay-gupta-apologizes-for-past-opposition-delivers-full-throated-defense-of-medical-marijuana/#sthash.jzkPzCa5.dpuf

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.
- See more at: http://blog.norml.org/2013/08/08/cnns-sanjay-gupta-apologizes-for-past-opposition-delivers-full-throated-defense-of-medical-marijuana/#sthash.jzkPzCa5.dpuf

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.
- See more at: http://blog.norml.org/2013/08/08/cnns-sanjay-gupta-apologizes-for-past-opposition-delivers-full-throated-defense-of-medical-marijuana/#sthash.jzkPzCa5.dpuf

 Those bolded lines are particularly important, because they also apply to the practice of drug testing.  Drug testing has not only never been tested for efficacy but has never once passed peer review, and yet people assume that "they must have quality reasoning...and science to support".  Few have ever given the practice of drug testing the scrutiny it should have had, and once it was forced in based entirely on social spin playing on moral panic and ignorance about the drug problem people simply came to assume that it was a "good thing" and that there must be "something" to it if it's so commonly done.  They assume that it keeps drug users out of the workplace despite the fact that all unbiased studies show that it has no effect on workplace safety or the ability of drug users to find employment.  They assume that it is accurate when false positives happen up to 30% of the time, to the point where drug testing companies can make fraudulent claims of "100% accuracy" with impunity.

I look forward to the day when drug testing companies, like the rest of the Drug War profiteers, can be brought up on charges of fraud, as they should have been in the eighties.  Yes, you heard me, I said fraud.  What else do you call it when they tell employers that their service, which has never once passed peer review, is "considered 100% accurate", as my company's suspicion-less drug testing policy claims?  What do you call it when drug testing companies tell employers that drug testing their employees not only will improve workplace safety and productivity, knowing that such claims have been entirely debunked by all studies not conducted by or funded by your industry, but that there is absolutely zero chance that they will terminate any non-users based on a false positive, when they know perfectly well that independent non-industry studies have shown that false positives happen 10% and often as much as 30% of the time?  When you make a claim you know is false and is supported by no unbiased evidence, only your own personal insistence that it's "totes scientific", that is commonly known as fraud. In a just world, it would be considered false advertising at the very least, which is also actionable but in my opinion far too lenient a charge for an industry that has been deliberately lying about their product for at least thirty years to date, not only taking money for value they don't deliver but destroying the lives of innocent people who lost their jobs, livelihood, and reputations (and in some cases, their freedom) due to false positives.

Unfortunately, it isn't likely they'd ever be charged with fraud or false advertising or anything at all.  Rich criminals always get away with their crimes, no matter how many lives they ruin.  I don't know why they're so damned scared when all they stand to lose is their obscene unearned profit and will never be charged with the crimes they've committed, like any of us poor violated stiffs would be if we pulled a fraction of the crap they've pulled over thirty years.

I guess laws are for the little people like us, huh?  Except laws like the Fourth Amendment, of course.

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.
- See more at: http://blog.norml.org/2013/08/08/cnns-sanjay-gupta-apologizes-for-past-opposition-delivers-full-throated-defense-of-medical-marijuana/#sthash.jzkPzCa5.dpuf

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.
- See more at: http://blog.norml.org/2013/08/08/cnns-sanjay-gupta-apologizes-for-past-opposition-delivers-full-throated-defense-of-medical-marijuana/#sthash.jzkPzCa5.dpuf

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.
- See more at: http://blog.norml.org/2013/08/08/cnns-sanjay-gupta-apologizes-for-past-opposition-delivers-full-throated-defense-of-medical-marijuana/#sthash.jzkPzCa5.dpuf