Pubdate: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 Source: Florida Times-Union (FL) Copyright: 2009 The Florida Times-Union Contact: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/opinion/letters_policy.shtml Website: http://www.jacksonville.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/155 Author: Alan Smithgall ALCOHOL VS. MARIJUANA Alcohol should not be used to promote dialogue and ease conflicts, as our president does. Alcohol is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, disease and violence each year. As our president drinks his alcohol at the White House and, in effect, promotes the use of this deadly substance, thousands of Americans are being denied the access to medical marijuana to ease their pain. Alan Smithgall Callahan - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake