Pubdate: Wed, 11 Jun 2014
Source: Orlando Sentinel (FL)
Copyright: 2014 Orlando Sentinel
Contact:  http://www.orlandosentinel.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/325
Note: Rarely prints out-of-state LTEs.
Author: Benjamin Pollara
Page: A10
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n507/a03.html

MEDICAL POT: YAY OR NAY?

The Front & Center opinion expressed by Orange and Seminole County 
Sheriffs Jerry Demings and Don Eslinger, "A back door to recreational 
pot," on Tuesday, brought to mind a quote by the successful football 
coach from Notre Dame, Lou Holtz.

Holtz wrote, "... Nothing can destroy individuals ... as quickly as 
drugs. ... I have never heard a successful man or woman get up and 
say, 'I owe my success to drugs and alcohol.' Yet I know thousands of 
people who have said publicly or in the press that they have ruined 
their lives because of drugs and alcohol."

John Morgan, heading up the campaign to support Amendment 2, which 
would broadly legalize medical marijuana, wants us to believe somehow 
that supporting this amendment will set us free. Drugs and alcohol 
have been used in different forms and for different reasons since the 
beginning of time. Always they have promised liberation. And always 
they have lied.

Jennifer Hawkins Ocoee
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