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>>> FLORIDA IS INCHING CLOSER TO
LEGALIZING MEDICAL MARIJUANA.
IT WAS AN IDEA SPARKED BY OUR
DR. SANJAY GUPTA.
HE MADE NEWS LAST YEAR.
HE CHANGED HIS STANCE ON THE
DRUG AND HE'S NOT BACKING DOWN.
IN A NEW OP ED OUT TONIGHT ON
CNN.COM.
SANJAY, YOU ARE DOUBLING DOWN.
YOU CAME OUT AND SAID MY A CULL
PA, I CHANGED MY MIND.
I THINK WE NEED TO LEGALIZE
THIS.
NOW YOU'RE REALLY UPPING THE
ANTE.
>> I'M DOUBLING DOWN.
I THINK THAT I HAVE CONCLUDED
THAT IT'S IRRESPONSIBLE,
FRANKLY, FOR THE MEDICAL
COMMUNITY NOT TO BE LOOKING AT
THIS AS A MEDICAL OPTION.
WE PRESCRIBE SO MANY DIFFERENT
MEDICATIONS.
I GAVE THE EXAMPLE OF A CHILD
THAT WAS ON SEVEN DIFFERENT
MEDICATIONS THAT WAS NOT
TREATABLE FOR EPILEPSY.
THEY TRIED THIS NON-PSYCHOACTIVE
CBD OIL.
CANNABIS OIL.
NOT SOMETHING THAT GETS HER
HIGH, SOMETHING THAT SHE SMOKED,
BUT IT'S AN OIL THAT RELIEVED
HER OF HER SEIZURES.
I THINK THAT'S IRRESPONSIBLE.
THAT'S PART OF THE DOUBLING DOWN
THAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
>> WHAT'S AMAZING, YOU HAVE TO
MAKE THIS POINT TO PEOPLE AGAIN
AND AGAIN, YOU GO IN THE
HOSPITAL AND SOMETHING IS WRONG
WITH YOU.
THERE, ACCORDING TO THE FEDERAL
REGULAT
REGULATIONS, YOU CAN BE
PRESCRIBED ***, YOU CAN BE
PRESCRIBED ***.
THEY COULD USE THAT TO HELP YOU
BUT THEY CAN'T USE MARIJUANA.
>> *** AND *** AMPHETAMINES
ARE BOTH LESS RESTRICTED THAN
MARIJUANA AND, LOOK, YOU KNOW, I
TRIED HARD, ERIN, TO NOT INJECT
A MORAL EQUIVALENCY INTO THIS.
MARIJUANA AND ALCOHOL, MARIJUANA
AND NARCOTICS, MARIJUANA AND
***, DRAWING THOSE
COMPARISONS.
THOSE ARE FAIR COMPARISONS.
I'M HAPPY TO HAVE THE
CONVERSATION.
HERE'S THE TRUTH, ON ITS OWN
MERITS MARIJUANA AS A MEDICATION
STANDS ALONE.
AGAIN, YOU LOOK AT THE U.S.
RESEARCH, IT MAY NOT BE THAT
COMPELLING?
WHY, BECAUSE IT'S ILLEGAL HERE.
>> RIGHT.
>> IN ISRAEL AND AROUND THE
WORLD THERE'S COMPELLING
RESEARCH.
BIG HOSPITALS IN JERUSALEM
PEOPLE ARE TAKING THIS AS A