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Gore: Smoking or Being Dope? 
Posted by FoM on January 27, 2000 at 10:21:03 PT
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Source: WorldNet Daily
In regards to the story that Vice President Al Gore smoked large quantities of marijuana for a number of years, I will shock those who know me by saying that I agree with Mr. Gore. The fact he smoked marijuana in the past is not relevant to his ability or qualification to become president. 
What I do believe is relevant, however, is the fact that he supports placing, and does place, over 685,000 people per year in jail for doing exactly what he did, and the only difference is that he didn't get caught until he was the vice president. This is hypocrisy at its worst. According to one congressman, the federal government alone spends in excess of $10 billion per year just prosecuting people who smoke marijuana, and that doesn't include what states, counties, and cities spend. Either Mr. Gore needs to turn himself in and take his punishment like a man like everyone else, or he should repudiate this insane law. Over half the adult population of the United States admits to having smoked marijuana. Nearly one third of the adult population admits to smoking it regularly at this time. When that many people ignore a law, it breeds disrespect for all law. When it is the president or vice president who has broken the law, no matter when in their life they did it, it makes it that much easier to ignore. And we wonder why kids don't take responsibility for their behavior. With an example like this, who can blame them.  Dr. Richard E. Pearl Sr.  Toking on Hypocrisy's Bong:   In a statement published by Reuters on Jan. 25, 2000, Al Gore addressed allegations that he was a regular marijuana user in his youth (early 20s). During this interview, Gore admitted to the alleged use of marijuana by saying, "When I came back from Vietnam, yes, but not to that extent." The extent to which he was referring was years of daily usage of marijuana, ending only a week before he announced his bid for the House of Representatives in 1976, as is alleged by his one-time friend and next-door neighbor John Warnecke. Gore then further attempted to minimize the importance of his admitted drug use, saying, "This is something I dealt with a long time ago. It is old news. When I was young I did things young people do. When I grew up, I put away childish things." I'm sure that many of Gore's supporters will accept his "boys will be boys" attempt to brush this issue aside, but in his particular case, there is a problem: During the time that Al Gore has held the office of vice president of the United States of America, he has had hands-on oversight of a national drug policy which has resulted in record numbers of Americans being incarcerated, a huge percentage of these being convicted of nothing more than non-violent drug offenses. What has Al Gore to say to the millions of Americans who have been subject to imprisonment, fines, and the loss of their rights to vote, hold jobs in public service, and own firearms while being guilty of little more than the same "childish things" to which Gore readily admits? Can such hypocrisy be justified? Can Gore and his accomplices in both the Bush and Clinton administrations deny that the "War on Drugs" is actually nothing more than a covert war on the freedoms, civil liberties and private property rights of the citizens of the United States? Or do we now add illegal drug use to the list of crimes such as perjury, obstruction of justice, abuse of office, treason, etc., to which the "New Ruling Elite Class" have declared themselves exempt? I am sure that the millions of Americans who currently sit in U.S. jails and prisons for the crimes of use, possession, cultivation, or distribution of Al Gore's "childish thing" are anxious to hear his answer.  P.T. ChiversWednesday, January 26, 2000Š 1999 WorldNetDaily.com Related Articles:A Note To Tennessean Readers About Gore Coverage - 1/25/2000http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4472.shtmlOne Other Journalist Recalls Gore's Drug Use - 1/25/2000http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4471.shtmlReports of Gore Pot Use Raise Complex Questions - 1/25/2000http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread4470.shtml
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Comment #6 posted by choclatey shatner on March 28, 2000 at 23:12:39 PT:
I order you to CHILL soldiers!!
   Man...people just need to chill about ganja. If our government took that $10 billion they spent on prosecuting users and growers and put it torwards solving some of our biggest problems such as homelessness or littering, by golly we might be alot closer to solving those problems. So what has the "war on drugs"s solved.......hmmm.............still........thinking...............anybody....nothing! They might think they are making progress but they're not! The "war",as they call it, is more like fighting a positive thing like friendship. Yeah, there are problems that arise in friendship, but nobody is advertising a "war on friendship" just because problems exsist. With everything comes some kind of problem, no matter how small. Kind of makes they're "war" seem pretty silly.    Has any pot-smoker actually started smoking LESS because they're government thinks it's wrong? Probably NOT. We've know what they think about it and obviously we don't care! Unless they put cameras in every nook and cranny of every city and every home, PEOPLE ARE STILL GOING TO GET HIGH ANY WAY THEY CAN EVEN IF IT MEANS MAKING OUR OWN PIPES AND BONGS AND GROWING OUR OWN WEED!!! They might as well give up. I don't know all that much about laws and legal rights but I know what the basic rights of every citizen should be. They should NOT be able to limit in ANY way what we put in our bodies. Our bodies are our own and no law should
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Comment #5 posted by kaptinemo on January 27, 2000 at 15:40:06 PT
It only changes when the big boys get pinched
Or when enough people get fed up with the lies and do something themselves.President Ford's son smoked pot in the White House. So did Prez Carter's boy. It should come as no accident that it was during this time frame in the Seventies that MJ came at its closest to becoming legal. Can't have the scions of Presidents winding up being sodomized in prison (like some poor kid who couldn't afford a good lawyer) for wacky-weed possession, now can we? (Not that they would actually have to suffer such ignominy; the rich always have enough good shysters on the payroll to preclude such things happening.)Gore knows that to be honest about cannabis is to be committing political hara-kiri. Hell, he is a big reason *why* he has to lie, now; because of all the political BS in support of the WoSD he has engaged in for *eight years*. He is not about to jeopardize his one big chance at being the Big Cheese by standing up like a man and admitting he was wrong. So I wouldn't get my hopes up about him. He is living proof of Shakespeare's saying that a man can smile and smile and still be a villain.
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on January 27, 2000 at 14:30:44 PT
Thanks Dankhank!
Oh Dankhank that was just great! God Bless You! I really mean that too and happy 4:20 at 5:27 here!Peace, FoM!
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Comment #3 posted by Dankhank on January 27, 2000 at 14:26:07 PT:
My View
Here is the text of my email to the president, sent 3 minutes ago, It's now 4:23. yes, guess what I am doing ...Sir,I am a supporter of most of what you believe is best for this nation, but I cannot understand WHY you apparently believe, like GWB I must add, that "youthful" or not-so-youthful casual drug use has no bearing on how you spend your days working actively to help "LOCK UP THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS FOR DOING THE SAME THING THAT YOU DID?" I know something of the marijuana culture and have to surmise that on one or more occasions you must have transferred marijuana to another individual in some fashion. If you ever gave a friend a joint for any reason, or sold a small amount to a friend, or split the cost of a quantity with a friend ... in short ... it is EASY for the law to make a transfer charge stick ... if they desire ... Witness the plight of Mr. WILL FOSTER, late of Tulsa, sir.  He is incarcerated here in Oklahoma, originally for 93 ... yes ... 93 years in prison for the crime of growing some marijuana to ease his rheumatoid arthritis, in a locked basement his young kids didn't know existed.Foster volunteered that he had given some of his marijuana to a friend, proud of it, friend was 'dry', friend complimented his marijuana ... see how it works?If you even casually passed a burning joint to another person THAT can be considered transfer.I'm guessing that you already know this stuff so I will proceed.For that transfer, Foster was given 3 years of the original 93 years. Foster was given one year for every plant that was confiscated, 70; and twenty years more due to our legal system's penchant for loading charges on folks.Sir I want to know if you would come to Lawton, OK, home of Fort Sill, OK to speak to me and some friends about WHAT we can do to end this craziness called the drug war. I would like you to go to see Mr Will Foster, currently incarcerated in the local Private Prison, and tell him if you think that the twenty years that Foster got from an appeals judge is proper. Mr Foster will be in jail longer than rapists and robbers, don't believe me, have an aid check the statistics here in OK.I know that the drug czar has recently said there is NO "drug war", but the rest of his rhetoric and behavior speaks to the truth of the phrase, "drug war." Whoever thought that an Army general would be a good "drug warrior," I submit to you, was smoking some rope of their own.Sir, you need to talk to Governor Johnson in NM in an effort to gain some much-needed up-to-date information of the futility of the drug war. Firing the drug czar would be a good second step on the road to recovery in our nation.Sir, tell me when you are coming to Lawton/Fort Sill and I will clear my calendar so as to meet with you to assure you that Americans NEED the truth about marijuana and it's effects, and that YOU are in a unique position to educate the world about this most efficacious of plants.Thank You for you attention to this missive.Go to my links page and send him an e-mail, too.Peace ...
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on January 27, 2000 at 13:15:34 PT
Long Time Until November
Hi kaptinemo! I agree with you but I found it interesting that Gore mentioned the Salon Magazine article and I know if I was a political advisor I would be scouting for the heart of the people. I actually saw some life and a smile in Gore on the MTV show last night. Gore and his wife must have been cool people many years ago and then politics corrupted their thinking. You lose your identity in politics but I think he might find people don't care about pot smoking but they do care about the laws against it. It's a long time til elections this fall and I have high hopes!
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Comment #1 posted by kaptinemo on January 27, 2000 at 13:04:24 PT
But will the Media pick up the ball?
They let Georgie Junior off scott-free. Bradley, too. And they will do the same for Gore. You'll hear a relatively minor rumpus and then... silence.The point has been made over and over again: there are two sets of laws. One for the rich, and one for the rest of us. Take a guess which side of the fence Mr. I-could-have-done-something-about-cannabis-arrests-and-didn't Gore is on.
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