Barry was quite the accomplished marijuana enthusiast back in high
school and college. Excerpts from David Maraniss’ Barack Obama: The
Story dealing with the elaborate drug culture surrounding the president
when he attended Punahou School in Honolulu and Occidental College in
Los Angeles. He inhaled. A lot.
1. The Choom Gang
A self-selected group of boys at Punahou School who loved basketball and good times called themselves the Choom Gang. Choom is a verb, meaning “to smoke marijuana.”
2. Total Absorption
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.” To place this in the physical and political context of
another young man who would grow up to be president, TA was the
antithesis of Bill Clinton’s claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he
smoked dope but never inhaled.
3. Roof Hits
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.
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1. The Choom Gang
A self-selected group of boys at Punahou School who loved basketball and good times called themselves the Choom Gang. Choom is a verb, meaning “to smoke marijuana.”
2. Total Absorption
3. Roof Hits
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.
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