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[email protected] Alcohol is far more debilitating— EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT even with one drink you feel the The Devil’s Advocate strikes again Sharon Hurley effects. And people who abuse R. David Boles First of all, I must say [email protected] alcohol often go to work the next how much I’ve enjoyed previous day. They may not be intoxicated, editions of Atlantic Business Maga- EXECUTIVE EDITOR but they can still be very sick and zine. I was pleasantly surprised Dawn Chafe hungover. There are no lingering by the progressive nature of the [email protected] side effects from marijuana and it’s articles with its focus on entrepre- non-addictive. neurs and their positive impact on CONTRIBUTING EDITOR (N.S.) There are more positive medicinal their communities and the people Stephen Kimber effects from using marijuana than they employ. The articles were not [email protected] any other natural substance. 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