New insight into the early life of Barack Obama has been recently made available in the form of excerpts from the forthcoming biography, “Barack Obama: The Story.” Apparently young Barry Obama, like countless of his contemporaries, enjoyed partaking in the use of marijuana. The president even was a trendsetter amongst his peers:

As a member of the Choom Gang, Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends. The first was called “TA,” short for “total absorption.”

Along with TA, Barry popularized the concept of “roof hits”: when they were chooming in the car all the windows had to be rolled up so no smoke blew out and went to waste; when the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling.

He also was unafraid to go against proper smoking protocol:

Barry also had a knack for interceptions. When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted “

Intercepted

!,” and took an extra hit. No one seemed to mind.

What is clear from these anecdotes is that not only did Barry Obama try cannabis, but he was what many would refer to as a recreational user, a “stoner” if you will. Which begs the question, when exactly did Barry Obama, who participated in three foot bong hitting contests, become President Barack Obama, who laughs off the issue at town hall meetings, oversees the annual arrest of 850,000 Americans for marijuana violations, and ramps up the war against medical marijuana to new heights?

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Ask yourselves this -- Could Obama still have become president, if he had ever been busted with pot those many years ago? Hell fucking no. He's even admitted to using cocaine. Imagine if he was caught with that.

The message I get from Obama is this -- It's okay to smoke pot when you're younger, just to have some fun. But use it as medicine, and I'll have my boys shut you down and arrested.

Barack Obama -- "A guy who smoked weed (and snorted coke) back in the day as a teenager in Hawaii and was damn lucky he didn’t get caught or today he’d be Barry the Drug Criminal."

Makes a damn fine point. Very unlikely he would be where he's at if he got caught. Which is proof in itself that criminalizing it makes matters worse. He used it recreationally and he's now the president. Imagine that.

Imagine that. Exactly.

Awesome read. There's a joke in there somewhore, but I wouldn't joke about the president.