Surgeons General And Medical Marijuana

A former Surgeon General of the United States of America says he wants to sell medical marijuana.

Among the list of applicants for Hawaii’s new medical marijuana dispensary system is a team of business professional including former Surgeon General, Kenneth Moritsugu. He’s not the only former top doc of the nation to support the medicinal use of one of mankind’s oldest cultivated plant species.

Former Surgeon General under President Bill Clinton, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, gave a keynote speech at the recent International Cannabis Business Conference in San Francisco on February 15. Dr. Elders was dismissed by Clinton in 1994 after disclosing her opinion that marijuana has medicinal uses.

In advance of the Conference, Dr. Elders told the San Francisco Chronicle that, “With legalization, we would stop using our poor to subsidize private prison industries.”

Even the current Surgeon General supports change in marijuana laws. ”We have some...

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