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He's the Choomer in Chief !!
Pres. Obama was a pothead growing up in Hawaii. When he and his smoking buddies got high, they called it "chooming." According to a new biography about the president, Davis Maraniss' Barack Obama: The Story, Barry Obama was the head of the Choom Gang. The young Obama was known for his rules of marijuana engagement, such as "total absorption," which penalized premature exhaling. "Your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around," Maraniss writes. "Roof hits" are described as, "When they were chooming in a car, all the windows had to be rolled up so no smoke blew out and went to waste. They tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling." One friend recalls, "Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated." So then Obama knew the fine arts of coughing-till-you-get-off and hot-boxing, but he also practiced the less acceptable technique of intercepting: "When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouting, 'Intercepted!' and took an extra hit." Not cool, Mr. President, dude. Obama made reference to the secret smoking squad in a high school yearbook, writing: "Thanks Tut, Gramps, Choom Gang and Ray," the group's dealer. In 2007, Obama stated, "When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point." In Dreams from My Father, he wrote in 1995: "I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped…It didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in a white classmates's sparkling new van or in the dorm room of some brother you'd met at the gym or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids. Everyone was welcome into the club of disaffection." Obama's little cannabis club, the Choom Gang. |
