Al Gore lll doesn’t have a drug problem. Huh?
"Al Gore lll may not have a drug problem...If Gore lll does not have a drug problem, he should not be forced into treatment."
So said Tony Newman, communications director at the Drug Policy Alliance, in a piece entitled "Lessons learned from Al Gore lll" in which he thanked California's Proposition 36 for allowing treatment rather than imposing jail time for the first two nonviolent drug offenses.
Sorry Mr. Newman, but the odds that Gore lll does not have the disease of addiction are remote. He was caught driving at about 100 mph at 2:15 a.m. without a prescription for drugs found in his possession. Marijuana possession, for which he was arrested in 2003, and Adderall, which is used for attention deficit ...
