<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b3905e01-456e-4db0-8b97-c0e4049296dd/ED3A07FF-BEA5-4053-9B1D-0CDC5CFA20A4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mason-tvert/obama-stop-driving-americ_b_246283.html" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mason-tvert/obama-stop-driving-americ_b_246283.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.huffingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mason-tvert/obama-stop-driving-americ_b_246283.html"><H1><A id="title_permalink" title="Permalink" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mason-tvert/obama-stop-driving-americ_b_246283.html">Obama: Stop Driving Americans - and White House Guests - To Drink</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mason-tvert/obama-stop-driving-americ_b_246283.html"><DIV class="blog_author_date"> <DIV class="float_left"> <A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mason-tvert"><IMG alt="Mason Tvert" src="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/contributors/mason-tvert/headshot.jpg" /></A> </DIV> <DIV class="float_left fixed_width_author"> <H2><A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mason-tvert">Mason Tvert</A></H2> <P class="teaser_permalink">Executive director and co-founder, SAFER</p> <DIV class="blog_posted_date"> Posted: July 28, 2009 03:29 PM </DIV> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mason-tvert/obama-stop-driving-americ_b_246283.html"><P>At <A href="http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1553061.html">a press conference in California last week</A>, President Barack Obama's new drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske declared:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mason-tvert/obama-stop-driving-americ_b_246283.html"><BLOCKQUOTE>"Marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit."</BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mason-tvert/obama-stop-driving-americ_b_246283.html"><P>Meanwhile, the President was at the White House trying to defuse the situation surrounding the controversial and highly publicized arrest of his friend, Harvard Professor Henry Lewis Gates, Jr., by <A href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/07/68495460/1">inviting him and the arresting officer, Sgt. Jim Crowley,</A> to the White House for a beer.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mason-tvert/obama-stop-driving-americ_b_246283.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA), alcohol use is associated with an elevated relative risk of injuries, whereas the Journal of Trauma reports that marijuana use is not associated with such risk.</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/ED3A07FF-BEA5-4053-9B1D-0CDC5CFA20A4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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