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Obama Returns to Spotlight, Reminisces About Smoking Pot in the ‘Choom Gang’

Joseph Curl

Barack Obama has spent the last few months kite-boarding with a billionaire off the coast of a private island, hanging around on a super yacht in Tahiti with more billionaires and rock stars and mega-celebrities, and, we’re assuming, furnishing his five homes spread across the U.S.

But you know Obama: He just can’t stay out of the spotlight. And so, on Monday, Obama showed up for his first big event since leaving office in January. He participated in a discussion with students at the University of Chicago where he was once a visiting professor teaching constitutional law. The avuncular Obama sat cross-legged on stage with a half dozen young people, musing about life, politics – and smoking weed.

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