Sanjay Gupta, Surgeon General?
January 8th, 2009 by Perry
In an article from Time Magazine, CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta, who is widely projected to be Obama’s pick for surgeon general, is against medical marijuana.
Maybe it’s because I was born a couple of months after Woodstock and wasn’t around when marijuana was as common as iPods are today, but I’m constantly amazed that after all these years–and all the wars on drugs and all the public-service announcements–nearly 15 million Americans still use marijuana at least once a month.
Gupta, a neurosurgeon at Emory University and famous television-doctor personality, has a stance and character which lends to him being more reasonable than most of the drug’s opponents. However, the pick has done little to ease concern that Obama’s bipartisan efforts could leave him making compromises in his first term which would disappoint a liberal support base hoping for change sooner, rather than later.
In a different interview though, Gupta also talks about MMJ’s effectiveness against Alzheimer’s disease and with glaucoma. Even though Dr. Gupta has shown the ability to be balanced, this whole article reeks of talking head factor and retention of the status quo.
