A new book that delves into Barack Obama's teenage years gives fresh insight into the president's marijuana-smoking days as a high school student in the 1970s.
It reveals how a teen Obama and his friends formed The Choom Gang - slang for smoking marijuana - in which he invented inhaling techniques and rode a car called the Choomwagon.
In the book, Barack Obama: The Story, biographer David Maraniss calls the future president 'Barry' and reveals he 'was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends';
One was 'total absorption' or 'TA', the rules of which stated that if you exhaled early, 'you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around'.
Another idea was 'Roof Hits' - rolling up car windows to stop smoke blowing out and going to waste.

'When the pot was gone, they tilted their heads back and sucked in the last bit of smoke from the ceiling,' Maraniss writes in the book, excerpted on Google Booksand due out August 19.
'Wasting good bud smoke was not tolerated,' an old school friend told the author.
The book also shows his weakness for marijuana, and how he would often 'intercept' a joint being passed around
And if that rule didn't give enough of an insight into how much Obama loved his marijuana, Maraniss goes on to reveal he was known for his 'interceptions' when a joint was being passed around.
Revelations: The book was out in August 19
'He often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted "intercepted", and took an extra hit,' he writes.
The anecdotes are from Obama's time studying at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii and Occidental College in Los Angeles.
It is not the first time the spotlight has fallen on his teenage use of marijuana. In his 1995 autobiography, Dreams from My Father, the president made the admission himself.
He wrote about some of his smoking haunts, including 'a white classmate’s sparkling new van', 'in the dorm room of some brother' and 'on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids'.
'Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it,' he adds in the memoir.
But Maraniss is quick to point out that Obama was surrounded with the drug in Hawaii - where a wide selection of varieties were on offer - and that 'Barry' did not fit the stereotype of a teen pot smoker.
'In fact, most members of the Choom Gang were decent students and athletes who went on to successful and productive lawyers, writers and businessmen,' he writes.
But they weren't all destined for great futures. Ray, who dealt pot to the group and was known for his ability 'to score quality bud', was later killed by a 'scorned g.a.y lover' armed with a hammer.
The book recounts Obama's teenage years at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii
Ray gets another mention in Obama's school yearbook as the teenager wrote his thanks to: 'Tut [his grandmother], Gramps, Choom Gang, and Ray for all the good times.'
One of Obama's friends, Mark Bendix, had a Volkswagen microbus that they called 'the Choomwagon', the book continues, and they would use it to drive up Mount Tantalus in Honolulu.
Once parked, they 'turned up their stereos playing Aerosmith, Blue Oyster Cult and Stevie Wonder, lit up some ‘sweet-sticky Hawaiian buds’ and washed it down with ‘green bottled beer’ (the Choom Gang preferred Heineken, Becks, and St. Pauli Girl).'
The book also documents Obama's early democratic leanings, explaining that the group operated by concensus and any member could veto a suggestion.
'Whenever an idea was broached, someone could hold up his hand in the V sign (a backward peace sign of that era) and indicate that the motion was not approved.
Inhale to the leader: Obama, who was open about his drug use in his 1995 autobiography, has not supported marijuana use since coming into power - and has cracked down on its medicinal use
'They later shortened the process so that you could just shout 'V' to get the point across,' he wrote.

1. Barack Obama thanked his Drug Dealer,Ray,in his year book for the good times.

2. The Cover of the new book

3. The type of Volkswagen Mini Bus Used By The Choom Gang

4. Obama smoking in front of his family's Kenyan hut

5. Punahou High School

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Thread for smokers' I think!*bounces out of thread* I don't smoke...

author seeking 15 minutes of fame

iamodenigbo1: author seeking 15 minutes of fame

how pls?

nairalife2013: how pls?

what is the intent on writing that book,fame and cash

iamodenigbo1: author seeking 15 minutes of fame

itz a great literary piece. Pls don't treat d authur wid contempt. D book is a blow-by-blow account of a part of d president's younger years. Itz an effort. Itz not abt only smoking. BesIdes, obama recently stopd smoking, atleast where there is a second party, and often advice folks against d habbit of smoking. Itz like any other biography. So what will u say about d author of"long walk to freedom"? Pls read more books to liberate yur mind.

smallpenis, hope u later cut it off. lol

Pls read more books to liberate yur mind.[/quote]thank you

iamodenigbo1: what is the intent on writing that book,fame and cash

it is fame and cash in d figment of yur imagination. Most books, especially biographies are inspired by d extraordinary or legendary ways of d person reported on.

lalasticlala: smallpenis, hope u later cut it off. lol

yes

Everybody get past.....

That was then.

What do you have to say about him now?.

Rubbish