Smoking

Barack Obama and His Pot-Smoking 'Choom Gang'

25 May 2012

Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama never tried to say he didn’t inhale. In his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father,� Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Zeus wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would...

Obama and His Pot-Smoking 'Choom Gang'

25 May 2012

Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama never tried to say he didn’t inhale. In his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father,� Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Zeus wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would...

Obama's high school pot-smoking detailed in Maraniss book

25 May 2012

Bill Clinton he was not. When it came to smoking pot, the teenage Barack Obama had rules. You had to embrace "total absorption" or face a penalty. When you smoked in the car, "the windows had to be rolled up." And he could horn his way in, calling out "Intercepted!" and grab the joint out of turn.Best-selling author David Maraniss' "Barack Obama: The Story" describes the future president's ...