Ex-Surgeon General, SAMHSA Director Call for Federal Legalization

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Ex-Surgeon General, SAMHSA Director Call for Federal Legalization

Ryan Basen

October 20, 2017

 

A newly formed group of physicians that include former US Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders and former director of the US Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Westley Clark believe “organized medicine” should be open to federally legalizing and regulating cannabis.

Elders and Clark co-authored an editorial published online recently in the American Journal of Public Health on behalf of the new group, Doctors for Cannabis Regulation. David Nathan, the group’s board president and a New Jersey-based psychiatrist, also contributed to the editorial.....

 

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