New biography alleges gore usd marijuana
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New biography alleges gore usd marijuana
Not until his presidential run in 1988 did the matter force significant public comment from Gore.
At a 1988 press conference, Gore admitted to experimenting with marijuana a few times during his Vietnam years and immediately afterward.
But this, he argued, needed to be understood in the context of a great "period of change" in the nation, as well as in himself. "Like many others in my generation," he said, "my life reflects the times." The matter seemed to be over before it started.
No sooner did Gore answer one question, however, when he was confronted with another: Had he truthfully characterized the extent of his marijuana use?
Gore did not answer this question directly. A reporting team from the Tennessean investigated, interviewing forty people, mostly Gore's former colleagues from the