"Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it," wrote Obama about what he would later say were "bad decisions." "Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man." 
Andy Caffrey, a candidate for Congress in California, has made a rather unusual campaign promise: If he wins, he’ll smoke a joint — right on the steps of Capitol Hill. “I’m willing to get arrested to fight for our rights, to defend our rights as Californians to consume medicine,” Caffrey, a registered Democrat, said in an interview.
A middle-of-the-night car crash near the Capitol that Rep. Patrick Kennedy cannot even remember persuaded the congressman to make hasty arrangements to enter a Minnesota rehab facility.
Democrat, Character, Oops, Drugs
Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel apologized after becoming so drunk at a college football game that she had to leave the stadium in a wheelchair.
“I attended a tailgate on an empty stomach,” Nessel wrote in a Facebook post about her intoxication at the Oct. 30 Michigan-Michigan State football game.
“Much to my surprise, MSU tailgate’s tend to have more alcohol than food, so I thought it seemed like a good idea to eat 2 Bloody Mary’s, since as long as you put enough vegetables in them, it’s practically a salad. As it turned out, this was not a brilliant idea. Also, I might be a terrible bartender,” she joked.
Democrat, Crime, Degeneracy, Drugs, Biden
President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, bragged about smoking crack with former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry in a recording published by the Daily Mail on Friday.
“You know what, I actually smoked crack with Marion Barry, I swear to f***ng god,'” Hunter is heard on the recording in a 2019 conversation with an unnamed friend.
Hunter, now 51, said he was a junior at Georgetown University at the time he smoked with Barry, who died in 2014. Barry was an infamous addict who spent six months in federal prison following an FBI sting operation in 1990 after he was caught on camera smoking in a hotel room.
Democrat, Crime, Government, Guns, Character, Arrogance
Newly released dashcam footage shows the day Michigan Rep. Jewell Jones (D-Inkster) was arrested in Livingston County after he allegedly drunkenly crashed his SUV. Jones, 26, is facing numerous charges in connection with an alleged drunken driving crash April 6.
Jones allegedly had a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit as he drove for at least 50 miles from Southfield to Fowlerville with his Glock pistol in the cupholder before crashing. Jones is accused of becoming combative with police and a paramedic who tried to help after the crash...
He is accused of telling officers he will call Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on them, even referring to her by her first name, and threatening the officers by telling them he runs the state budget.
Democrat, Crime, Guns, Character, Financial, Drugs
Despite facing an indictment for her involvement in a marijuana growing operation, an east Tennessee Democrat running for Congress is proclaiming her innocence while noting that the situation reiterates the need for the country to decriminalize pot.
Florence "Flo" Matheson of Crossville... and Stephen Harrington are facing criminal indictment after authorities discovered more than 180 marijuana plants, guns and cash while searching a house and a barn at 16536 Genesis Road.
Democrat, Liberal, Character, Corruption, Drugs
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s office offered to change her position on medical marijuana if a major Florida donor recanted his withering criticism of her, according to emails obtained by POLITICO. The proposal to Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan was straightforward: retract critical statements he made to a reporter in return for Wasserman Schultz publicly backing his cannabis initiative that she had trashed just months earlier.
Democrat, Crime, Government, Fraud, Metaphor, Corruption, Drugs
The FBI is accusing Texas Democrats of using cocaine to buy votes and it’s all coming out in court... Two political operatives of a Hidalgo County Commissioner’s campaign manager were charged on Thursday with vote-buying before U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby, The Monitor reported... Veronica Saldivar and Belinda Solis, known as politiqueras, paid campaign workers, were each given $25 worth of cocaine, the campaign manager admitted, and told to buy votes with them.
Democrat, Liberal, Character, Degeneracy, Law, Drugs
Fox New’s Bob Beckel said on The Five Wednesday that, just as rapper Snoop Dog claims to have done, he has smoked marijuana in the White House before. “I can’t criticize this guy (Snoop) because I’ve done dope in the White House myself,” Beckel said.
Democrat, Crime, Character, Drugs
Kerry Kennedy may agree to a plea deal over driving while drugged charges stemming from a 2012 accident so she can continue her extensive human rights work... She fled the scene of the accident and subsequently tested positive for Ambien several hours later, police said at the time. There were no injuries in the crash, which Kennedy told cops she did not remember, and the only damage was a flat tire to her 2008 Lexus SUV.
Obama Drug Use
Researchers found persistent users of the drug, who started smoking it at school, had lower IQ scores as adults. They were also significantly more likely to have attention and memory problems in later life, than their peers who abstained.
Democrat, Crime, Character, Drugs
Meridian attorney Rod Amos who ran in the Democrat Primary for mayor was arrested early Sunday by Meridian police. Department spokesman Capt. Dean Harper confirmed Amos was arrested just after 3 a.m. and faces several charges, all misdemeanors. Amos was charged with DUI refusal, possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, resisting arrest, and obstructing traffic.
Democrat, Hypocrisy, Crime, Drugs
A former state representative, who once chaired the ethics committee, busted for trafficking methamphetamine near a school was issued a monitoring bracelet if he could post his $10,000 bail after his attorney pleaded with the judge to release his client because he is stricken with cancer. “His life is on the line here literally. This is a man who is being treated for stage three cancer at Mass General Hospital,” defense attorney Vincent A. Murray Jr. said of his client Stephen W. Doran, 57, of Dorchester who was arrested as he left the Match Charter Middle School in Jamaica Plain with a package containing 480 grams of crystal meth.
Liberal, Obama, Character, Brilliance, Oops, Drugs
Researchers found persistent users of the drug, who started smoking it at school, had lower IQ scores as adults. They were also significantly more likely to have attention and memory problems in later life, than their peers who abstained. Furthermore, those who started as teenagers and used it heavily, but quit as adults, did not regain their full mental powers, found academics at King’s College London and Duke University in the US.
Democrat, Liberal, Obama, Character, Drugs
For example, in recalling his high school days in Hawaii, Obama declares: “I kept playing basketball, attended classes sparingly, drank beer heavily, and tried drugs enthusiastically … If the high didn’t solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world’s ongoing folly.”
Democrat, Liberal, Obama, Drugs
"Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it," wrote Obama about what he would later say were "bad decisions." "Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man."
Democrat, Liberal, Obama, Drugs
Obama's Cocaine Confessional Won't 'Blow' His Chances
Democrat, Liberal, Crime, Degeneracy, Hollywood, Drugs
"I only did cocaine to stay awake to make sure nobody else did too much cocaine. That was the only reason I ever did it. Heh heh."
Democrat, Scandal
U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, saying that D.C. Mayor Marion Barry had violated the public trust, yesterday sentenced Barry to six months in prison and ordered him to pay a $5,000 fine for his conviction of cocaine possession.
Jackson said Barry "has given aid, comfort and encouragement to the drug culture at large, and contributed to the anguish that illegal drugs have inflicted on this city."
Democrat, Scandal
U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy said Friday that he will enter a rehabilitation program after crashing his car on Capitol Hill a day earlier.
CNN obtained a statement from a congressional source later Friday in which Capitol Hill Police said an initial probe showed supervisors did not handle the accident properly at the scene.
Democrat, Liberal, Oops, Drugs
WASHINGTON, June 13 — Representative Patrick J. Kennedy pleaded guilty on Tuesday to driving under the influence of prescription drugs last month in an early morning car crash near the Capitol. Mr. Kennedy, a Rhode Island Democrat who is a member of one of the nation's most closely watched political families, was sentenced in District of Columbia Superior Court to court-ordered drug treatment, a year of probation and a $350 fine. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors agreed to drop charges of reckless driving and failure to display a driving permit.
Democrat, Scandal
Eighteen jurors, intent on missing no detail, watched yesterday as a television screen showed D.C. Mayor Marion Barry taking two long drags from a crack pipe in a room at the Vista Hotel on Jan. 18. It was the first public screening of the FBI videotape that showed Barry's arrest on drug possession charges.
Howard Dean: Is Trump A Coke User?
Notice Trump sniffing all the time. Coke user?
— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) September 27, 2016
I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though - Mickey, my potential initiator, had been just a little too eager for me to go through with that. -Barack Obama