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Docs Change Tune On Pot
Doctors are mellowing on marijuana.
The American Medical Association is asking the government to rethink it's classification of pot as a dangerous drug and says it supports more research to determine medical uses.
It's an about-face for the doctors' group, which previously supported keeping marijuana in a government grouping of drugs that include LSD and PCP. The nation's biggest physicians' group, meeting in Houston this week, stops short of endorsing medical-marijuana laws in states like California.
It's the latest sign that society's views of marijuana are softening. Last month, the Obama administration advised fed drug-enforcement cops to lay off the legal pot shops in states that allow medical-marijuana sales. And Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says California should have a robust debate over legalizing pot.
"This shift, coming from what has historically been America's most cautious and conservative major medical organization, is historic," Aaron Houston, director of government relations for the Marijuana Policy Project, says in a statement.
Brett Chase covers health care for Portfolio.com and writes the blog Heavy Doses.
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