Al Gore's Son Arrested for Possession of Marijuana

Montgomery County, Md. Police Department ^ | Saturday, December 20, 2003 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Albert A. Gore III, the son of former Vice President Al Gore, was arrested last night in Bethesda, Md. for possession of marijuana.

According to Montgomery County police, Gore was driving a dark-colored Cadillac through downtown Bethesda around 11:30 p.m. with the car's headlights off.

Police officers who were conducting a campaign against impaired driving during the holiday season stopped the car and noticed that despite the freezing temperature, all the car's windows were open as well as the sunroof.

When the officer spoke with the driver, Mr. Gore, he smelled the odor of marijuana coming from inside the car.

When officers searched the car, they found what appeared to be a partial marijuana cigarette near the center console area. They also found a baggie of suspected marijuana inside a cigartette box and a crushed soda can with an odor of marijuana coming from the interior of the can.

Gore and the two passengers in the car were charged with one count of possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor. All three were released pending trial.

[spoonfork2000]

If this story is real, it's a good thing that Gore isn't running. It might have actualy forced a politician to publicaly admit that the drug-war is a waste of time. /sarcasm

[em2vn]

Wrong,he did however create the ground that it grows in and the rain that falls on it.

[oldironsides]

One son was found to have been using illegal subtances at his private school. Is it the same son that was so seriously injured when he was run over by a vehicle after a ballgame? He was walking with Al Gore and a car hit him.
He was very young at the time.

[Gumption]

No. Now he's a Dem that leans libertarian.

[mylife]

Is it the same son that was so seriously injured when he was run over by a vehicle after a ballgame? He was walking with Al Gore and a car hit him. He was very young at the time.

I have no idea.

[reed_inthe_wind]

other passengers included George Soros.

[BulletBobCo]

This tidbit found at Dittohead.org

News of 19-year-old Albert Gore III's Sept. 5 drunk driving arrest wasn't reported for a full eight days - until a political gossip column in the Washington Times broke the news blockade yesterday. The media cover-up of Gore Jr.'s latest brush with the law stands in marked contrast to alcohol-related offenses involving the Bush family, stories the press has repeatedly rushed into print over the last two years. As of Saturday morning, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated Press and most other big media outlets had declined to cover Gore Jr.'s alcohol-fueled antics, which came to an abrupt halt when he was pulled over by military police just outside the Pentagon. At the family's request, the press also declined to report young Gore's 1996 suspension from the tony Washington, D.C., prep school St. Albans after he was discovered smoking marijuana in the cafeteria. "[Vice President] Gore called leading news organizations around Washington and asked them not to run the story, and all complied," reported Newsweek's Bill Turque in his book "Inventing Al Gore." In stark contrast, alcohol-related incidents involving first daughters Jenna and Barbara Bush have been widely and immediately covered by the mainstream press, as were the recent drug-abuse troubles of first niece Noelle Bush, who was discovered last week with crack in a Florida drug rehab center. Though reporters acquiesced when Mr. Gore secretly asked them not to cover the 1996 drug incident involving his son, the press has ignored repeated public requests from first lady Laura Bush to show the same discretion with her daughters.

[visualops]

hide the reefer in a LOCK box.....

ROFL!!!

[ladyinred]

Gee, how come as big of a deal is being made of this as the Bush's twins arrests? Hmmm?

[Rainbow Rising]

Did he try to talk his way out of the bust by insisting that there was no controlling legal authority?

[PeteFromMontana]

Here's one from the past:


Gore's Son Busted in N.C.

NY Post
Monday, Aug. 21, 2000

Vice President Al Gore's teen-age son, whose near death in a car accident as a child devastated his family, was busted for speeding in North Carolina two days before the start of the Democratic National Convention.

Albert Gore III, 17, was charged with reckless driving Aug. 12 after North Carolina state cops clocked his Oldsmobile at 97 mph in a 55-mph zone, police said.

The teen-ager was driving on a long stretch of state highway in a rural area just south of Virginia, said Sgt. Robert Boyes of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.

"He said he was on his way back to Washington and he was in a hurry," Boyes said.

A trooper driving in the opposite direction clocked the car on the radar, and then turned around to pull Gore over.

Police said there were no drugs or alcohol involved in the incident, and the teen was completely cooperative. A magistrate released him on a $100 bond and set a mandatory court date for Sept. 13.

The arrest happened just before the Gore family gathered in Los Angeles, where the vice president was nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate at the convention. "The Gores are dealing with this as a family matter," said Camille Johnston, a spokeswoman for Tipper Gore.

The Gores are said to be very protective of their only son.

In 1986, the then-6-year-old youngster nearly died when he was struck by a speeding car.

"I watched in horror as he flew through the air, scraped along the pavement and then lay still," Mrs. Gore wrote in her book, "Picture This, A Visual Diary."

His father applied mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until the ambulance arrived, and the youngster had to endure several surgeries to heal internal injuries.

The vice president said the episode inspired him to write "Earth in the Balance" – but it threw Tipper Gore into a clinical depression. She has said she sought and received counseling and medication in the wake of her son's accident.

She recently took time out from campaigning for her husband to nurse her son after he injured his ankle while playing linebacker on the football team at Sidwell Friends High School.

The young man, who lives at home with his parents, is entering his senior year this fall.

Copyright 2000 NYP Holdings Inc. All rights reserved.

[BillF]

The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (VRWC) drove him to it, especially the continuing trauma of recalling the "get out of Cheney's house" protests.

Politically, this is not that important. However, it will provide another demonstration of media bias by comparison to the coverage of the Bush twins bar incident.

[Holly_P]

Gore was driving a dark-colored Cadillac through downtown Bethesda around 11:30 p.m. with the car's headlights off.

I am not familiar with Cadillacs but I can't turn my car lights off at night. If the engine is running, the lights stay on.

Maybe an old Cadillac?

[Cvengr]

...Gore and the two passengers in the car were charged with one count of possession of marijuana,...

I thought Al forbade his son to hang out with Bill and Hillary anymore.

[thoughtomator]

1. And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.

2. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, and upon all wherewith the ground teemeth, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.

3. Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.

- Genesis 9:1-3

[Liberty Valance]

Hey...isn't this grounds enough to sieze his medical records? Oh nevermind, it's not Palm Beach County. :o)

[Gumption]

A real gas guzzler no doubt.

[visualops]

Pretty obvious the spoiled kid just sees how far he can push Daddy to bail his ass out. Smoking pot in the cafeteria at St. Alban's? That's a pretty blatant 'screw you Dad'.

[U S Army EOD]

No he is DOPE.

[southernnorthcarolina]

How old is Junior now? 24?

He's 21; born October 12, 1982.

He's accumulating quite a rap sheet. Suspended from St. Alban's Prep School at age 13 for possession of a substance "not permitted by the honor code," but not expelled. Al Jr. and Tipper decided to yank him out anyway, and he transferred to Sidwell Friends School.

Ticketed for 97 in a 55 near the North Carolina Outer Banks in summer of 2000, during Dad's campaign, at age 17. Fined $125, driving privileges in NC suspended.

Ticketed for DUI in September 2002, just before his 20th birthday, by military polive near Ft. Myer, VA. I don't know the outcome of that case, nor what he was under the influence of. He was a Harvard student at the time. Is he still?

Whatta guy.