CNN's Sanjay Gupta: We've been misled about cannabis

[RainDog]

61. Yes, he said "systemically misrepresented" evidence

Which is a nice way of saying they have been doing a disservice to the American people by lying...they and the Drug Czar's office, as well.

As far as I'm concerned, the office of the Drug Czar could go away. Do you know that it's entire existence is based upon the govt's decision to engage in propaganda for the Drug War? Yeah. That was pretty astonishing to me when I learned this entire bureaucracy has existed to lie.

We now have years of data from other nations who have tried different approaches to the issue of abuse of substances (which is outside of the issue of medical benefit, but all angles are considerations regarding policy.)

The war on drugs is a failure.

There is a better way to deal with this - as a health issue, not a criminal one.