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but the headline is so big it can't wait in a commentary you could rewrite now on
CNN dot com
sonji explains the in an article Ian titles
why I changed my mind ennui unity rights and i'm quoting
I apologize because I didn't look hard enough until now I didn't look far
enough
I was too dismissive the loud chorus have legitimate patients
whose symptoms improved on cannabis Sunday's back here in the Situation Room
to tell us why you referred to an article you wrote back in 2009 for time
magazine
sonji which was a title why I would vote no
on Pop Tarts so tell us briefly why did you change your mind
well you know i i think a lot of it was it was in that quote I i
when when you look at the literature a room surrounding marijuana if you do a
search for them through the medical journals
you know some 20,000 papers a pop up and I was keeping up steadily on the
scientific literature
but what I was realizing was that the vast majority of the studies
talked about the harm the perils that the problems with marijuana
a very small percentage less than 10 percent close to six percent
actually evaluated benefit so we looked at all the studies an aggregate wolf
you you would think that there was there was a distorted picture you would think
there's a lot more harm with marijuana
then potential benefit but it wasn't I started looking at laboratories outside
the United States
smaller laboratories that we're doing amazing work listening to the
course a legitimate patients for whom not only did marijuana work
it was the only thing that worked and that was quite stunning to me
I'll to look closely at the DEA scheduling policy
they classify marijuana as a schedule 1 substance saying it's it's in the
category the most dangerous substances out there
and when I look carefully at that I found there was really no scientific
evidence to say it was that dangerous
that I have high abuse potential and they had no medical applications
I believe it does have medical applications and thats I just thought
was important message to get out there
and you also concludes our jeanne i read your excellent article
you conclude that in certain cases medical marijuana is even more effective
in various pharmaceutical
drugs right absolutely and and this is
again I think very important for people to hear the medical community is
starting to
to to understand this better but this idea that for example neuropathic pain
that says terrible for burning lanson aiding pain
patients described to me oftentimes these patients are miserable
they get narcotics morphine oxycontin by lauded
these types of medications don't work may be at all but certain after a few
months
people can develop tolerance to them and come to find that marijuana in a
percentage of patients now it doesn't work better than these narcotics
it's much safer because in those narcotics wolf you have talked about
this
there's a death an accidental overdose deaths from prescription medications
every 90 minutes in this country
those are dangerous medications that you know that they have a role but they can
be dangerous
whereas with marijuana I could finally confirmed a single confirmed
overdose death see if something that works better
made me work when other things don't and probably
much safer I and again I think that's important for both patients and the
medical community here
are so medical marijuana serves a useful purpose you conclude what about a
recreational
marijuana whatever the pros and cons
what you know I do make a distinction between these things I think it's
important to me and I i really am approaching
the medical marijuana and all this in many ways because I've seen so many
legitimate patients with legitimate problems not be able to get the
treatment they needed
but but but as I do make a distinction but look if you want to talk about
you wanna raise the issue of moral equivalence with with recreational
marijuana and other substances that are out there
again marijuana is considered a drug hi abuse the highest abuse
dependence rates are around nine percent as compared to alcohol which is closer
to 15
*** 23 25 percent *** 20 percent
so it's probably not as problematic as those those are the types and
as other types of drugs I i'm concerned about it is as far as its use for young
people
people with the developing brain still at the age mid-twenties but you know
again from a moral equivalence standpoint you'd be hard-pressed to find
additional harm from this in adults as compared to some other things