Stuart Gitlow, MD, president of ASAM and a board-certified addiction medicine specialist, called the paper’s stance “irresponsible” and “ignorant of the facts” that clearly place marijuana on the continuum of psychoactive drugs that trigger addiction and lifelong chronic brain disease.
Links
[1] http://www.asam.org/magazine/read/article/2014/07/28/new-york-times-calls-for-legalization-of-marijuana-asam-strongly-objects
[2] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/doctors
[3] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/medical
[4] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/vote-no
[5] http://rethinkpot.org/tags/addiction