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 - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom