Washington The son of former vice president and 2000 Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore has been charged with marijuana possession. Albert A. Gore III, 21, was arrested Friday night after he was stopped for driving a vehicle without its headlights on.
Two passengers were also arrested and charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession. They were identified as Yann V. Kumin, 21, and Marc G. Hordon, 22, both of Cambridge, Mass.
A Montgomery County, Md., police officer stopped the car, a dark-colored Cadillac, in Bethesda, a Washington suburb, around 11:30 p.m. Friday.
The officer noticed the car's windows and sunroof were open, despite cold temperatures Friday night. There was also a smell of marijuana coming from the vehicle, according to a news release from the police department.
A search of the vehicle turned up a partial marijuana cigarette, a cigarette box containing suspected marijuana, and a soft drink can that also smelled of marijuana.
All three were released pending trial.
In September 2002, the younger Gore was ticketed for driving under the influence. He was pulled over and ticketed by military police just outside Fort Myer in suburban Virginia, but was not taken into custody.
In the summer of 2000, Gore was cited by the North Carolina Highway Patrol for driving 97 mph in a 55-mph zone. Under an agreement with prosecutors, a reckless driving charge was dropped in the North Carolina case, but he was fined $125 for speeding and his driving privileges in the state were suspended.
Al Gore's Son Arrested for Pot Possession
By The Associated Press December 20, 2003
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The Clinton-Gore administration spends millions to fight illegal drugs, but does nothing about one of the most damaging substances in American society: alcohol. Perhaps the fact that Big Booze is generous at campaign time explains the contradiction.
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The Week Online with DRCNet (stopthedrugwar.org) has learned that Newsweek Magazine decided late Friday to postpone publication of an excerpt of a Gore biography featuring eyewitness accounts of Al Gore's regular and continued drug use over a period of years. The drug use covers a period of Gore's life from his days at Harvard up until the very week he declared his candidacy for Congress in 1976, sources told The Week Online.
Continued...www.drcnet.org/wol/gore.html
"We smoked more than once, more than a few times, we smoked a lot. We smoked in his car, in his house, we smoked in his parents' house, in my house we smoked on weekends. We smoked a lot [T]he perpetuation of silence over time has allowed us to go on jailing kids who are much younger and less equipped to deal with life than Al Gore was when we were using drugs together."
--John C. Warnecke on his relationship with Al Gore and on U.S. drug policy
In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the US. Of those,
46.5 percent -- 734,497 arrests -- were for marijuana.
There were 646,042 arrests for simple possession of marijuana in 2000.
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Last week The New Yorker Magazine published a "Comment" piece that offered a nice summary of the state of drug policy in America. Using recent allegations that Vice-President Al Gore was a regular pot smoker as a launching pad, the piece is subtitled "Gore's Greatest Bong Hits." Author Henrik Hertzberg shifts quickly to a much broader commentary on the drug war itself, flatly calling it a twenty-year "failure."
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Source: Salon Magazine February 15, 2000
The leader of the classic hippie-haven the Farm is running for president
just like his old friend Al Gore -- whom he's not so happy with these days.
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U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana laws.
According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2001.
Keith Stroup, (NORML)
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Ashcroft Nephew Got Probation After Major Pot Bust
Indiana Congressman Dan Burton, the Republican heading up the House's investigation of campaign-finance improprieties, and a supporter of life sentences for some marijuana crimes, has a son who has gotten himself into a mess of trouble. Danny Burton II was busted for driving about eight pounds of pot from Louisiana to Indiana. Six months later, police raided his apartment and found 30 marijuana plants and a shotgun. The feds did not press charges. Indiana prosecutors got his charges dismissed. In Louisiana, he got off with community service, probation and house arrest. Under federal drug laws, just for the gun alone Burton could have faced a mandatory sentence of five years in prison. Suffice it to say that most offenders don't have this kind of luck with prosecutors.
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According to the government-funded National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 800,000 million youths between 12 and 17 tried marijuana for the first time in 1991. But in 2000, according to the same survey, 1.6 million youths between 12 and 17 tried marijuana for the first time. "If arresting more people is supposed to stop kids from trying marijuana, it seems not to be working," comments Bruce Mirken, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project in D.C.
What's life like in our prisons for those 77,000 marijuana convicts? Let's steel our nerves and go visit the Web site www.spr.org, where the Los Angeles outfit "Stop Prisoner Rape" has posted the little plain-talking handbill it has prepared for young men entering our prison system, titled "For Prisoners: Advice on Avoiding HIV/AIDS."
The group's handout -- targeted primarily at heterosexual men who have no desire to ever be involved in homosexual activity -- advises:
"HIV/AIDS transmission during a sexual assault is a serious concern. The following are practical tips for reducing your risk. ...
"If you have a choice, try to avoid men who used needles for drugs in the past or are still doing so. ... The more often you are raped, the more exposed you will be, so especially try to avoid anal gang-bangs. The most dangerous situation of all is if your anus is bleeding, for that allows easy entry of the virus into your bloodstream. So try to use a lubricant or grease or cream if you can to minimize injury to your delicate internal body parts, avoid anal gang-bangs, and if you must endure forced anal penetration, try to relax your muscles as much as possible. These tactics are not 'cooperating' or consenting, they are just common-sense measures to try to save your life.
"In many situations you are better off agreeing to do something (masturbating, oral sex, sex with a condom) rather than just resisting until you are overwhelmed and forced to deal with unprotected anal sex from one or many guys. You may feel you should resist to the end, but that would put your life in danger. There is no shame in doing what you have to do to survive; nothing changes the fact that rape is involved and you are not morally or legally responsible for it; these compromises are just pathways to your survival. It may even be to your advantage to develop skills in oral sex so that guys you have to deal with will be satisfied with that alone. Don't feel guilty about it; you're just trying to save your life.... "
Feeling pretty comfortable now with what the legal system is doing to these 77,000 nonviolent pot-smokers in your name? (And those are just the ones who end up doing hard time, mind you. Remember, 646,000 were arrested in 2000. Do you suppose most of them had a nice, restful night in jail? Do you realize, if their families spent a few thousand dollars apiece on legal fees, that adds up to more than a billion dollars, and taxpayer costs for lost police time are several times that?)
Still going to tell me that treating them in this manner is just the way you show your "compassion" as you seek to "protect them from the health risks" of lighting up a joint, not to mention "sending the right message to the children"? Continued...www.cannabisnews...14571.shtml
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"The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are convicted of nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens the lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially devastating to the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem accompany the perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Farmer v. Brennan
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-- President John F. Kennedy
Two passengers were also arrested and charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession. They were identified as Yann V. Kumin, 21, and Marc G. Hordon, 22, both of Cambridge, Mass.
A Montgomery County, Md., police officer stopped the car, a dark-colored Cadillac, in Bethesda, a Washington suburb, around 11:30 p.m. Friday.
The officer noticed the car's windows and sunroof were open, despite cold temperatures Friday night. There was also a smell of marijuana coming from the vehicle, according to a news release from the police department.
A search of the vehicle turned up a partial marijuana cigarette, a cigarette box containing suspected marijuana, and a soft drink can that also smelled of marijuana.
All three were released pending trial.
In September 2002, the younger Gore was ticketed for driving under the influence. He was pulled over and ticketed by military police just outside Fort Myer in suburban Virginia, but was not taken into custody.
In the summer of 2000, Gore was cited by the North Carolina Highway Patrol for driving 97 mph in a 55-mph zone. Under an agreement with prosecutors, a reckless driving charge was dropped in the North Carolina case, but he was fined $125 for speeding and his driving privileges in the state were suspended.
Al Gore's Son Arrested for Pot Possession
By The Associated Press December 20, 2003
CannabisNews -- Cannabis Archives
Howard Dean Sqeaks to MMJ
Jail May Be In His Future
Possession or use of any amount of marijuana is punishable
by up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.
Atlanta paper and the Guardian in the UK carried the AP story
Al Gore on Drugs by Dennis Hans Aug. 15, 2000
The Clinton-Gore administration spends millions to fight illegal drugs, but does nothing about one of the most damaging substances in American society: alcohol. Perhaps the fact that Big Booze is generous at campaign time explains the contradiction.
US: Gore's Greatest Bong Hits
A DRCNet Exclusive By Adam J. Smith
The Week Online with DRCNet (stopthedrugwar.org) has learned that Newsweek Magazine decided late Friday to postpone publication of an excerpt of a Gore biography featuring eyewitness accounts of Al Gore's regular and continued drug use over a period of years. The drug use covers a period of Gore's life from his days at Harvard up until the very week he declared his candidacy for Congress in 1976, sources told The Week Online.
Continued...www.drcnet.org/wol/gore.html
"We smoked more than once, more than a few times, we smoked a lot. We smoked in his car, in his house, we smoked in his parents' house, in my house we smoked on weekends. We smoked a lot [T]he perpetuation of silence over time has allowed us to go on jailing kids who are much younger and less equipped to deal with life than Al Gore was when we were using drugs together."
--John C. Warnecke on his relationship with Al Gore and on U.S. drug policy
In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the US. Of those,
46.5 percent -- 734,497 arrests -- were for marijuana.
There were 646,042 arrests for simple possession of marijuana in 2000.
www.drugwarfacts.org
Newsweek Runs Gore-Warnecke Excerpt
New Yorker Column Good on Policy but Unfair to Sources 2/11/00
DrugSense FOCUS Alert # 161 February 16, 2000
Last week The New Yorker Magazine published a "Comment" piece that offered a nice summary of the state of drug policy in America. Using recent allegations that Vice-President Al Gore was a regular pot smoker as a launching pad, the piece is subtitled "Gore's Greatest Bong Hits." Author Henrik Hertzberg shifts quickly to a much broader commentary on the drug war itself, flatly calling it a twenty-year "failure."
Gore's Hay Day By R.U. Sirius
Source: Salon Magazine February 15, 2000
The leader of the classic hippie-haven the Farm is running for president
just like his old friend Al Gore -- whom he's not so happy with these days.
Who's Who: Celebrity Tokers
NOTE: A group of 100 prominent celebrities are planning "out" themselves as pot smokers.
This event is being organized by Cannabis Consumers Campaign.
Gore And Drugs: He Should Remember His Sister
Gore Backs Medical Marijuana December 15, 1999
Comments Mark New Break With Clinton Administration
The Education of Al Gore - Newsweek
Propaganda for Dollars - Salon
Washington Script Doctors - Salon
Drug Money, How the White House Secretly Hooked TV - Salon
CannabisNews Articles On Vice President Gore:
Al Gore: A User's Manual
Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (Hardback Edition)
Common Dreams Archives
Drug War Advocates Are Immune To Facts by Sean Gonsalves
How Do You Spell Vietnam? 'Colombia' by Molly Ivins
Colombia War On Drugs A Sham by Andrew Reding
Ken Silverstein: Gore's Oil Money: What's Good For Occidental Is Bad For Colombia's U'was
Pandering Californian Pols Keep Fighting Losing War On Marijuana by Dan Hamburg
And Justice For All? Our Anti-Drug Sentencing Is Perverse by Eric Sterling
Stop Drugs by Dennis Hans
Kill Addicts! A Modest Proposal To Help Win The War On Drugs
Bush's Record? Look At Texas by Derrick Jackson
The Drug Czar Has Time For A Speech by James Gray
But No Time For Crucial Questions About The Nation's Failed War On Drugs
How Goes The "War On Drugs"? In Two Words, Not Well by William Raspberry
US Is In No Position To 'Certify' Other Nation's In the 'War On Drugs'
Bush's Cocaine Problem
This article, first published in the summer of 2000, is not about George Bush's drug use. It is about how he dodges, ducks, and hedges when confronted with his past drug use. American citizens deserve a leader who can be frank and honest. Bush must be asked whether he can summon the moral authority to send young people to prison, given the fact that he had avoided the DEA in his youth.
U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana laws.
According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2001.
Keith Stroup, (NORML)
The CIA, the CONTRAS and the Crack Cociane Epidemic
Ashcroft Nephew Got Probation After Major Pot Bust
Indiana Congressman Dan Burton, the Republican heading up the House's investigation of campaign-finance improprieties, and a supporter of life sentences for some marijuana crimes, has a son who has gotten himself into a mess of trouble. Danny Burton II was busted for driving about eight pounds of pot from Louisiana to Indiana. Six months later, police raided his apartment and found 30 marijuana plants and a shotgun. The feds did not press charges. Indiana prosecutors got his charges dismissed. In Louisiana, he got off with community service, probation and house arrest. Under federal drug laws, just for the gun alone Burton could have faced a mandatory sentence of five years in prison. Suffice it to say that most offenders don't have this kind of luck with prosecutors.
Busht Hypocrisy & Double Standards
PDFA - Slickly Packaged Lies
United States' Answer To Drug War Proves Harmful
U.S. prison population largest in world
Unrepentant Junkies
Sen.Joseph McCarthy
DJ Rush Limbaugh
Conservative Addiction Good, Liberal Addiction Bad!
A Tokin' Appearance By Bush Twins?
The Devil Inside Jenna and George
Free Tommy Chong!
Ed Rosenthal's Trial Pictures & Articles
'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'
According to the government-funded National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 800,000 million youths between 12 and 17 tried marijuana for the first time in 1991. But in 2000, according to the same survey, 1.6 million youths between 12 and 17 tried marijuana for the first time. "If arresting more people is supposed to stop kids from trying marijuana, it seems not to be working," comments Bruce Mirken, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project in D.C.
What's life like in our prisons for those 77,000 marijuana convicts? Let's steel our nerves and go visit the Web site www.spr.org, where the Los Angeles outfit "Stop Prisoner Rape" has posted the little plain-talking handbill it has prepared for young men entering our prison system, titled "For Prisoners: Advice on Avoiding HIV/AIDS."
The group's handout -- targeted primarily at heterosexual men who have no desire to ever be involved in homosexual activity -- advises:
"HIV/AIDS transmission during a sexual assault is a serious concern. The following are practical tips for reducing your risk. ...
"If you have a choice, try to avoid men who used needles for drugs in the past or are still doing so. ... The more often you are raped, the more exposed you will be, so especially try to avoid anal gang-bangs. The most dangerous situation of all is if your anus is bleeding, for that allows easy entry of the virus into your bloodstream. So try to use a lubricant or grease or cream if you can to minimize injury to your delicate internal body parts, avoid anal gang-bangs, and if you must endure forced anal penetration, try to relax your muscles as much as possible. These tactics are not 'cooperating' or consenting, they are just common-sense measures to try to save your life.
"In many situations you are better off agreeing to do something (masturbating, oral sex, sex with a condom) rather than just resisting until you are overwhelmed and forced to deal with unprotected anal sex from one or many guys. You may feel you should resist to the end, but that would put your life in danger. There is no shame in doing what you have to do to survive; nothing changes the fact that rape is involved and you are not morally or legally responsible for it; these compromises are just pathways to your survival. It may even be to your advantage to develop skills in oral sex so that guys you have to deal with will be satisfied with that alone. Don't feel guilty about it; you're just trying to save your life.... "
Feeling pretty comfortable now with what the legal system is doing to these 77,000 nonviolent pot-smokers in your name? (And those are just the ones who end up doing hard time, mind you. Remember, 646,000 were arrested in 2000. Do you suppose most of them had a nice, restful night in jail? Do you realize, if their families spent a few thousand dollars apiece on legal fees, that adds up to more than a billion dollars, and taxpayer costs for lost police time are several times that?)
Still going to tell me that treating them in this manner is just the way you show your "compassion" as you seek to "protect them from the health risks" of lighting up a joint, not to mention "sending the right message to the children"? Continued...www.cannabisnews...14571.shtml
What Do You Do with a Problem Like Noelle
Judge Shuts Down Investigation of Noelle Bush
Judge Upholds Privacy for Jeb Bush's Daughter
Cunningham's Vote to Support the Death Penalty for Drugs
Cunningham son held on marijuana charge (thread)
aqualung rush
WARNING: Pursuant to the Patriot Act I, passed by the U.S. Congress in 2001, in effect until 2007, and Patriot Act II, which was passed in the middle of the night by Congress in 2003 while the nation was captivated by the capture of Saddam Hussein, all electronic transmissions are monitored by federal and state law enforcement agencies.
NOTICE: Patriot Acts I & II are Anti-Free Speech/Anti-Civil Liberty
Harsh Souder Drug Bill Coming Soon To Congress
"The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are convicted of nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens the lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially devastating to the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem accompany the perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Farmer v. Brennan
Rainbow Farm Massacre
The Murder of Peter McWilliams
Oklahoma:The Will Foster Story: 93 years
Oklahoma:Free James Geddes 90 years for 5 plants
Release Petition
Oklahoma Istook the Constitution and set it on fire
CANCER VICTIM TODD McCORMICK PUNISHED WITH SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
The Medical Marijuana Magazine
How To Grow Medicine
Statewide billboard campaign against federal war on medical
marijuana featuring 8-year-old daughter of MMJ prisoner Bryan Epis.
DEA Raids MMJ Garden of L.A. Patient Sister Somayah
RENEE BOJE * Mike's Militia Mission * News items about Renee
Uphold The Law By Steve Kubby November 05, 1999
Cannabisnews search: Steve Kubby
Pot Grower, 75, Given Year in Jail
US Prosecutes Cancer Patient Over Marijuana
TWO SUSPECTS KILLED IN SHASTA COUNTY MARIJUANA RAID
November Coalition
Human Rights and the WoD
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
-- President John F. Kennedy
