Pubdate: Mon, 10 Nov 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: Ann Kahl Page: A17 IRONY OF MARIJUANA'S DEFEAT Let me get this straight: People are free to purchase and smoke cancer-causing, addictive nicotine. There is no ban on the use or abuse of alcoholic beverages. Doctors are permitted to dispense all kinds of drugs without restrictions. Yet, we are so worried about medical marijuana that the amendment to legalize its use was defeated. The giant pharmaceutical companies must be laughing all the way to their laboratories, where they will continue to manufacture their expensive drugs unopposed by the sale of legal marijuana horning in on their profits. Ann Kahl Apopka - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom