The Choom Gang! How Barack Smoked Weed And Partied Hard With His Crew (LIST)

Posted May 25, 2012 by The Decider for Global Grind Staff

Obama ran with his Choom Gang at Punahou School. They loved basketball, good times smoking marijuana. Choom meant "to smoke marijuana"

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We all know that President Barack Obama indulged in drug use once upon a time as he has always been open about his use of narcotics as a younger man.

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But a new book from author David Maraniss, Barack Obama: The Story, focuses on Obama’s days in high school and college as he dealt with the drug culture surrounding him at the time.

Among other things we find that the future president, while he attended Punahou School in Honolulu and Occidental College in Los Angeles, smoked more than Wiz Khalifa on 4/20.

Obama, known as Barry at the time, not only smoked, but belonged to his own clique known as the Choom Gang.

Take a look at some cool excerpts from Maraniss' book about what the President did as young teen in Honolulu.