Is pot no more dangerous than booze? President Obama's statement to that effect in an interview in The New Yorker, raised a few eyebrows among rehab professionals and drug experts who cite research that contradicts the president's words. Washington Times: The National Drug Control Policy's official stance, posted on the www.whitehouse.gov Website, says the opposite of Mr. Obama on all counts. For example, as documented in agency reports, marijuana smoke has significantly more carcinogens than tobacco smoke. And as reported by the government's National Institute on Drug Abuse, adolescent use of marijuana does something that alcohol does not; it causes permanent brain damage, including lowering of IQ. Taxpayers have spent billions of dollars warning about drugs, often about marijuana, but these efforts were dramatically undercut by the president's comments. Mr. Obama might as well have rolled that money into a joint and smoked it on national television. He told the ...(Read Full Post)