Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaking about marijuana with Piers Morgan on Wednesday. (Screenshot)CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta is making waves this week saying he was wrong about medical marijuana and that Americans have been “terribly and systematically misled” on therapeutic uses of the drug.

In an op-ed entitled “Why I changed my mind on weed,” Gupta writes that he is “here to apologize” because he failed to do adequate research on medical marijuana, and did not review scientific literature from abroad on “remarkable research” on it. He writes: 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.

Dr. Wendy Chapkis, author of several books including Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine and a University of Southern Maine professor, welcomed Gupta’s comments, telling Common Dreams, “It’s about time that the established medical profession” recognize the medical uses of cannabis.

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