exploration of anti-Gore mudslinging

Something about this trips my 'persecution complex by proxy' sensor, but I suspect that in the main, it may be a reasonably accurate, if long-winded, debunking of things that Gore is reputed to have said.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/6275

news flash: alcohol more damaging than cannabis

http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2007/5367.html

I'm not sure how much is novel here, and I haven't looked at the article itself. However, the idea that drugs should be judged by relatively objective criteria--the amount of damage that they do to the user, the extent to which they induce dependence, and the concomitant effects on society--is so straightforward and rational as to be positively revolutionary. *sardonic smile*