Barak Obama's selection of CNN Health Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta for US surgeon general may have consequences for marijuana users. The neurosurgeon gave his opinion on legalization in this 2006 TIME Magazine article.
President-elect Barack Obama's website www.Change.gov has been asking Americans about the issues most important to them. The first "Open for Questions" segment found that the number one question, voted for by almost one million website visitors, was the following: "Will you consider legalizing marijuana so that the government can regulate it, tax it, put age limits on it, and create millions of new jobs and create a billion dollar industry right here in the U.S.?"
I was arrested at Dubai International Airport for possessing two seeds of cannabis in my bag. I really did not know they were there and it wasn't even my bag. I spent the next three months in jail awaiting trial. It must be told, all in the desert is not gold.