{"id":278,"date":"2015-07-16T00:08:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T05:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/?p=278"},"modified":"2015-07-21T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T03:08:00","slug":"research-summary-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/2015\/07\/16\/research-summary-1-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Summary 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gupta, Sanjay Dr. ” Why I changed my mind on weed”. CNN.com. <\/em>CNN, 08 Aug. 2013. Web. 15 Jul. 2015<\/p>\n

CNN.com http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/08\/health\/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana\/<\/p>\n

Dr. Sanjay Gupta is CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent and author of “Why I changed my mind on weed”, published by CNN. com August 2013.\u00a0 In his article Dr. Gupta expresses how a more in-depth look into pot, changed his perspective on the topic . Having went along with the narrative that marijuana deserves to be on the DEA’s schedule one substance list, Gupta was surprised and\u00a0 disappointed that pots’ benefits have been kept in the dark.<\/p>\n

According to Gupta, the way that marijuana is perceived in this country is\u00a0 unfairly skewed, partly because of the lack of studies proving its benefits. During his research into the topic, Gupta found that only 6% of marijuana studies conducted within the United States investigate its pros, making a “highly distorted picture” when looking at weed.\u00a0 Even if someone wants to study marijuana in a scholarly fashion, you need weed and approval from the government; which is extremely hard to come by, Gupta states. The National Institute on Drug Abuse is the reigning champ when it comes to drug studies, and more often than not they only focus on the negative effects. This blatant disregard for what\u00a0 marijuana can offer is what has shaped the anti-marijuana mind in America.<\/p>\n

Furthering his research, Gupta came across a young child, that since birth has been riddled with horrible seizures. Colorado native Charlotte Figi, was up to 300 seizures a week until marijuana came into the picture and reduced that to just a few a month.\u00a0 The automatic criminalization of marijuana makes it difficult for success stories like this to be heard. For the medical community to turn a deaf\u00a0 ear on the pros of pot is, “irresponsible”, in Gupta’s opinion. More over, Gupta writes, the potentiality of abuse is very limited, making marijuana what it is intended to be; harmless.<\/p>\n

Going deeper into the history of marijuana in the U.S., Dr. Gupta comes to the startling realization that marijuana was only to be a schedule one substance until more in depth research had been conducted. Dr. Roger Egeberg, the Assistant Health Secretary during the 70s, was the person who deemed marijuana addictive. As Gupta dug deeper he came to the conclusion that science had absolutely nothing to do with the decision, but the “absence of science”.\u00a0 Considering that its been 40+ years since that report, Gupta believes that it is past time for the reevaluation of marijuana.<\/p>\n

Because of Dr. Gupta’s own due diligence with the subject marijuana, this makes him the perfect candidate as a back bone for my own research into the topic. The fact that he reached out of his comfort zone and allowed himself to turn away from conventional thinking, is what drew me to him. I believe my classmates would find his outlook on pot useful, because he is an academic, a doctor, someone who knows their stuff, but isn’t too knowing to not learn any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gupta, Sanjay Dr. ” Why I changed my mind on weed”. CNN.com. CNN, 08 Aug. 2013. Web. 15 Jul. 2015 CNN.com http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/08\/health\/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana\/ Dr. Sanjay Gupta is CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent and author of “Why I changed my mind on weed”, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rs-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}