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In reply to the discussion: CNN's Sanjay Gupta: We've been misled about cannabis [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)I totally agree.
Doctors have been propagandized by the DEA for decades. Most of them aren't going to bother to check if the DEA is lying to them because they operate within a credentialed system and they assume that anyone who has made it to the point of a major govt. bureaucracy is not going to out-and-out lie.
Well, on this issue, at the least, the DEA is out-and-out lying.
This is why I say the war on drugs undermines respect for the law, in the same way that racism does. The DEA has systematically worked to create an underclass of people who have found cannabis offers the best medical treatment for certain things by maintaining their lies.
They have killed innocent people to fight against a phantom of their own reefer-madness making.
One man choked to death on this own vomit after he was a "show" arrest for speaking out about this issue when he needed cannabis to keep down his HIV and cancer meds. His crime? Talking about how cannabis was keeping him alive. They showed him.