CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta publicly apologized for his previous statement regarding the medicinal benefits of weed, according to the US News.
According to the report, Gupta retracted the views he expressed in his 2009 Time Magazine feature entitled, "Why I Would Vote No to Pot."
Gupta wrote an apology letter admitting that he did not look hard enough for the right facts about this form of treatment, US News reported.
CNN presented an accompanying documentary entitled "Weed" which Gupta spent a year investigating by visiting pot farms in Colorado and hospitals in Israel. A source told US News that Gupta studied the medical benefits of weed for cancer patients.
According to the US News, the documentary placed emphasis on the under researched healing effects of marijuana and featured a five-year old girl take the drug as treatment for her seizures.
The US News claims that marijuana is the only 'treatment' that has helped reduced the child's seizures from 300 a month to two or three.
The US News asked Gupta why he decided to change his opinion about medical marijuana and he responded by saying that the stories he heard from people whose lives were improved and changed by this miracle drug became his obvious turning point.
