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 Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book 
#16283267 - 05/25/12 02:39 PM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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The meticulous biographer David Maraniss revealed Barack Obama's early girlfriends in an excerpt published in Vanity Fair 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.
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."
Original article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/25/obama-pot-smoking-details_n_1545904.html
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: Azurescens89] 1
#16283383 - 05/25/12 03:08 PM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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People will quite likely make comments after me talking about how cool Obama is, but in reality all this does is show how fucking sick it is that people go to jail just for smoking some pot. And he has done nothing to try to stop it, nay he has made it worse. If anyone thinks that he would have gone to become a president if he even had a single possession charge they are naive
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: bloodsheen]
#16283412 - 05/25/12 03:16 PM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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While he has not stopped all persecution of drug users, he has done more than any other president to my knowledge. For example, look at the new mandatory minimums for crack vs coke convictions.
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: myco99]
#16283445 - 05/25/12 03:23 PM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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Presidents don't make the laws, that happens in Congress.
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: Doc_T]
#16283598 - 05/25/12 03:56 PM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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Presidents don't make the laws, that happens in Congress.
Yeah but what about the DOJ?
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: Doc_T]
#16283723 - 05/25/12 04:23 PM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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Presidents don't make the laws, that happens in Congress.
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: Mr. Bojangles]
#16283755 - 05/25/12 04:28 PM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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Am I the only one who thinks his tactics are hilarious?
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: Azurescens89]
#16283943 - 05/25/12 05:08 PM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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Senortrippington said:
Am I the only one who thinks his tactics are hilarious?
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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.
My favorite was "Intercepted!" 
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Azurescens89 said:
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.
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perfect example of why we have our current drug laws. IMO: the government is afraid of letting these cultural boundaries go. pot is not so harmless to them as it is to the rest of society. media and politics revolve around conflict.
im spouting mckenna and various others here but its time we recognize the pharmacological solution to our biggest social problems. and thats why i love you shroomery 
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: ganjhor]
#16284034 - 05/25/12 05:38 PM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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Is Obama roasting a bong in the white house right now?
Anyone who smokes weed regularly understands it and usually smokes their whole life. 9/10 ime
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: Doc_T]
#16284096 - 05/25/12 06:02 PM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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Doc_T said:
Presidents don't make the laws, that happens in Congress.
No but he has an incredible influence on congress, especially with his ability to veto bills that may not get the majority vote a second go around. Congress will start making deals if he vetos left and right, and he certainly wouldn't be the first president to make use of his veto power.
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: LloydChristmas]
#16284984 - 05/25/12 09:48 PM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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Penn Jillette wasn't too happy about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O6VWUXnl7r8
No embed.
Penn is awesome.
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: LSDylan]
#16285033 - 05/25/12 09:59 PM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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I saw that vid. The guy makes a point. Obama is a hypocrite.
I also read on DP about a Supreme court justice from New York begging the state to approve medicinal marijuana in the state.
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: 46 and 2]
#16285179 - 05/25/12 10:31 PM (11 months, 20 days ago) |
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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.
Damn, Obama sounds like just another one of the guys.
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: Fruitshishkabob]
#16287008 - 05/26/12 11:29 AM (11 months, 19 days ago) |
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I read that on yahoo not too long ago, and was smiling and laughing the whole time. Sounds like he woulda been a great person to smoke with. Especially in that environment. Chilling among the mountains/beaches, smoking, chilling.
Then I remembered all the stunts he has pulled with the medical program and I put on ma rage face 
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: 46 and 2]
#16287718 - 05/26/12 02:46 PM (11 months, 19 days ago) |
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In all of his alleged adventures, he is portrayed as an alpha male and front runner, in spite of a management style, in which he leads from behind the scenes, bowing before sovereigns, both literally and in the figurative sense.
I realize that politically incorrect circumstances are being claimed, here, but they are described in a way which glorifies him, and I find it pedantic.
It's like hearing that past dictators were 'cool' gang leaders. So fcking what, and were they really.
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: durian_2008]
#16289321 - 05/26/12 09:30 PM (11 months, 19 days ago) |
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Politics are a shitty game in the US. I think Obama is personally on the correct side of some of these debates, but he can't be upfront about it until it is politically safe to do so. It may seem like he is a hypocrite, but he is just playing the game, change happens very slowly.
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Re: Obama Pot Smoking Details in a New Book [Re: Smitington]
#16289806 - 05/26/12 11:36 PM (11 months, 19 days ago) |
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bloodsheen said:
If anyone thinks that he would have gone to become a president if he even had a single possession charge they are naive
i think it's pretty naive to think that a simple possession charge would absolutely keep someone from elected office.
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Smitington said:
Politics are a shitty game in the US. I think Obama is personally on the correct side of some of these debates, but he can't be upfront about it until it is politically safe to do so. It may seem like he is a hypocrite, but he is just playing the game, change happens very slowly.
yep. i certainly don't agree with his stance on raiding dispensaries, but anyone who just thinks obama should legalize weed tomorrow has zero clue how politics work in this country.
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