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  Obama Pot-Smoking Details Revealed In Book

Posted by CN Staff on May 25, 2012 at 14:55:44 PT
By Luke Johnson, The Huffington Post 
Source: Huffington Post  

USA -- The meticulous biographer David Maraniss revealed President Barack Obama's early girlfriends in an excerpt of his forthcoming biography, and now the Internet is seizing upon new details of the president smoking marijuana with his buddies at the Punahou School in Hawaii.Politico's Playbook teased the following excerpt from "Barack Obama: The Story," which will be published in June but is already viewable on Google Books. "When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted 'Intercepted!' and took an extra hit," Maraniss writes. But Obama's buddies, who called themselves the "Choom Gang," didn't mind him messing up the rotation. (After all, this was Hawaii.)
That's not all. Maraniss writes that Obama was known for starting a trend called "TA," short for "total absorption.""When you were with Barry and his pals, if you exhaled precious pakalolo (Hawaiian slang for marijuana, meaning "numbing tobacco") instead of absorbing it fully into your lungs, you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around.Maraniss also describes Obama's technique of "roof hits" while hot-boxing cars. "When the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling," he writes.The fate of their dealer, Ray, was far more tragic than those of Obama and his largely privileged pals. In a scene that could've been in a Quentin Tarantino movie, a "scorned gay lover" later killed Ray with a ball-peen hammer.The Huffington Post can't independently verify the claims of Maraniss, who won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993.Obama has been less than shy about his drug use in the past, writing about the topic in "Dreams from My Father." "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it," he writes in the memoir.Obama's tone grows darker, and drugs are an escape for the young Obama, who is facing questions about his own identity:Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn't been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by them, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you'd met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl.As Obama moved to higher stage, he's also been forthcoming about drug use. On Bill Clinton's personal triangulation that he had tried marijuana but "didn't inhale," Obama said smiling in 2006, "That was the point, wasn't it?"Later in "Dreams from My Father," one of Obama's friends was arrested for drug possession and his mother, home from Indonesia, confronted him about it in his room, and he walked out.The fun continued for Obama at Occidental College in Los Angeles, but he became much more serious after transferring to Columbia University after his sophomore year, when he lived, in his words, "like a monk."Source: Huffington Post (NY)Author: Luke Johnson, The Huffington PostPublished: May 25, 2012Copyright: 2012 HuffingtonPost.com, LLC Contact: scoop huffingtonpost.comWebsite: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/URL: http://drugsense.org/url/BbEcZVldCannabisNews -- Cannabis Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml 

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Comment #15 posted by FoM on May 28, 2012 at 19:49:38 PT

afterburner
I missed your last 2 comments. They were great. The one about Obama is right. Using Cannabis to escape like Obama was doing isn't why to use Cannabis. Cannabis helped him become who he is today even if he doesn't remember it now. Hopefully he will remember before he is finished with his second term. I refuse to think we will be stuck with Romney. It would wreck my summer! LOL!
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Comment #14 posted by Oleg the Tumor on May 28, 2012 at 18:52:34 PT:

"Mr. President, the test reports are in . . . 
. . . and it turns out you flunked the "giggle test", as mandated by the DEA. Not to worry though, the fix is always in, as long as you play ball . . .I have but one word to say to you sir, "INTERCEPTION!"
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Comment #13 posted by afterburner on May 26, 2012 at 10:42:18 PT

My VW Bus
When my kids were young, we had a VW micro-bus, which I bought up north. It was school bus yellow. The weather was too cold to salt the roads there, and so the bus was not undercoated. (I did not know that until too late.) One winter in Toronto and the road salt ate the chassis. That VW bus was fun while it lasted: roomy and full of charisma. We never did get a chance to paint it psychedelic though, like Cat Steven's VW bus. 
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Comment #12 posted by afterburner on May 26, 2012 at 10:12:08 PT

No Wonder Pres. Obama Doesn't Take Us Seriously
"I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory." -ObamaHe got the technical side down pat, but he missed the spiritual guidance that Bob Marley talks about and that many here have experienced personally.Food fiber medicine spirituality: this multi-faceted 'gift from God' is just too good to waste, too important to ignore.Wake Up and Live, Mr. President. "There's work to be done, so let's do it little by little." -Bob Marley
Bob Marley - Wake up and live in Santa Barbara 1979 
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Comment #11 posted by FoM on May 26, 2012 at 05:41:02 PT

greenmed
Thank you. You have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend too. It is going to be very hot around here so trying to keep my very pregnant rottie comfortable will be one thing I will be doing. The poor thing. LOL! We are having friends over and will have a cookout over a bonfire and be watching the Amish family start work on the house and apartment we sold to them. Having Amish neighbors will be nice as crazy as the world is.I love the country!!!
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Comment #10 posted by greenmed on May 25, 2012 at 21:40:08 PT

FoM and Stick
FoM, I am glad it brought a smile for you! You and Stick. . . have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!Everyone else too -- you know who you are!
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Comment #9 posted by FoM on May 25, 2012 at 18:32:19 PT

greenmed
That is just too cool! I am having buffering problems but I am seeing enough to really make me smile. I didn't know that there were that many still on the road. 
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Comment #8 posted by greenmed on May 25, 2012 at 17:52:20 PT

FoM
In some countries the buses are called "kombis." Many show up for the Kombi Caravan to the annual cannabis festival at Nimbin, Australia.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmgRfbKu-Y8
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Comment #7 posted by FoM on May 25, 2012 at 17:34:43 PT

Greenmed
When a VW Bus was for sale at a Mecum Auction the men who talk about the cars were almost giddy. It was a vehicle that made people feel free. To this day the same emotion seems to surface when one is seen. A VW bus has it's own spirit. I never owned one but that is how they make me feel.
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Comment #6 posted by greenmed on May 25, 2012 at 17:23:22 PT

FoM
There seems to be quite a few lovingly taken-care-of VW buses still on the road. When I can flash a peace sign, it's always returned! Now, to check out the video...
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Comment #5 posted by FoM on May 25, 2012 at 17:13:55 PT

Video of Cat Stevens Restoring a VW Bus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck2xonpGOiY
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on May 25, 2012 at 17:04:28 PT

Greenmed
I think the Choomwagon was cool. The VW Bus was so symbolic of the hippie culture back then.
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Comment #3 posted by greenmed on May 25, 2012 at 16:52:56 PT

FoM
Gotta love the Choomwagon!
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on May 25, 2012 at 16:40:18 PT

greenmed
I love the pictures and the Choomwagon!
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Comment #1 posted by greenmed on May 25, 2012 at 15:39:36 PT

related article
https://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/a-users-guide-to-smoking-pot-with-barack-obama
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