Gov. Gary Johnson: I Smoked Marijuana from 2005 to 2008

Gov. Gary Johnson: I Smoked Marijuana from 2005 to 2008
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Gary Johnson, the former New Mexico Governor and a likely 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate, hasn’t been shy about his support for Marijuana legalization or his personal use of the drug during his younger days. “I never exhaled,” he joked in a recent interview with The New Republic. But in an interview with THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Johnson admitted publicly for the first time that he smoked Marijuana more recently...

Is the GOP Ready for a Presidential Candidate Who Smoked Pot as Recently as 2008?
Because that's what Gary Johnson has just admitted to, in an interview with The Weekly Standard. Excerpt: "It's not anything I volunteer, but you're the only person that actually asked about it," says Johnson, who governed New Mexico from 1994 to 2002. "But for luck, I guess, I wasn't arrested." Although smoking Marijuana for medicinal purposes was illegal in New Mexico until 2007, Johnson says he needed the drug following a 2005 paragliding accident in Hawaii. His sails got caught in a tree, h...

Is the GOP Ready for a Presidential Candidate Who Smoked Pot as Recently as 2008?
Because that's what Gary Johnson has just admitted to, in an interview with The Weekly Standard. Excerpt: "It's not anything I volunteer, but you're the only person that actually asked about it," says Johnson, who governed New Mexico from 1994 to 2002. "But for luck, I guess, I wasn't arrested." Although smoking Marijuana for medicinal purposes was illegal in New Mexico until 2007, Johnson says he needed the drug following a 2005 paragliding accident in Hawaii. His sails got caught in a tree, h...

Gary Johnson admits to recently smoking marijuana
Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, a Tea Party favorite and possible 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate, told The Weekly Standard that he smoked Marijuana for medicinal purposes from 2005 to 2008 following a paragliding accident in Hawaii. Johnson has long advocated from legalizing Marijuana but has said in the past that he supports it despite no longer smoking Marijuana (or drinking Alcohol) himself. “Rather than using Painkillers, which I have used on occasion before, I did smo...

2012 GOP Hopeful Admits to Smoking the Evil Marijuana Drug
The only Republican to date that I would consider voting for in 2012 continues to be the only Republican to date that I would consider voting for in 2012… Gary Johnson, the former New Mexico Governor and a likely 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate, hasn’t been shy about his support for Marijuana legalization or his personal use of the drug during his younger days. "I never exhaled," he joked in a recent interview with The New Republic. But in an interview with The Weekly ...

It Shouldnt Be News Anymore That A Potential Candidate Smoked Marijuana
Even if it was for medical purposes, as former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson acknowledged was the case between 2005 and 2008. (h/t Political Wire) “It’s not anything I volunteer, but you’re the only person that actually asked about it,” says Johnson, who governed New Mexico from 1994 to 2002. “But for luck, I guess, I wasn’t arrested.” Although smoking Marijuana for medicinal purposes was illegal in New Mexico until 2007, Johnson says he needed the drug followi

Former governor Johnson admits to using pot
New Mexico’s former Governor and possible Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson has admitted in an interview to smoking pot in recent years. Conservative magazine “The Weekly Standard” says Johnson admitted to smoking Marijuana from 2005 to 2008. Johnson says he broke his back in a 2005 paragliding accident and chose to smoke pot instead of dealing with the negative side effects of Painkillers. He adds that he’s lucky he wasn’t Arrested during that time. The former re...

I never exhaled: Former GOP governor admits to recent pot-smoking
Stumble This! A former Republican Governor of New Mexico has admitted that he smoked pot as late as 2008. It's no secret that Gary Johnson, who was Governor from 1994 to 2002, is an advocate for Marijuana legalization. In a recent interview with The New Republic, Johnson joked, "I never exhaled." In an interview published Monday, Johnson revealed just how recently he inhaled. "It’s not anything I volunteer, but you’re the only person that actually asked about it," Johnson told The W...

New details of Johnson's pot-smoking past
(CNN) - Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson hasn't been shy about smoking Marijuana in the past, but a new interview reveals that this past may not be so distant. In an interview with The Weekly Standard released Monday, Johnson admits that he smoked Marijuana recently for medicinal purposes. Johnson is an avid supporter of the legalization of Marijuana and the revelation that it's a part of his past isn't a new one. When asked if he ever smoked marijuana, he referenced Bill Clinton circa 1992 t...

Johnson Admits Smoking Marijuana for Three Years
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson (R), a likely 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate, hasn't been shy about his support for marijuana legalization and use of the drug as a youth, recently telling the New Republic, "I never exhaled." But in an interview with the Weekly Standard, Johnson admitted for the first time that he smoked marijuana more recently -- from 2005 to 2008 -- for medicinal purposes after he broke bones in a paragliding accident. Said Johnson: "It's not anything I volunteer,...

Gary Johnson: The Deficit Commission Report: A Good Start, But Only a Start
Final reports from government commissions are not generally known to be stirring or often acted upon. Most of the time, that's OK. Commissions are usually government's way of pretending to address a problem without really doing so. Last week, though, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform -- the Deficit Commission -- released a document that I would strongly suggest everybody read. Tasked eight months ago by President Obama to come up with recommendations for reducing the ...

Kyl: No START in Lame Duck
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. The key Republican in New START negotiations in the Senate, Jon Kyl, indicated yesterday that the treaty would likely not be ratified in the Lame Duck session. Politico reports: Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), the Senate's key skeptic on the START arms control treaty, said Sunday that he doesn't believe the treaty can be ratified during this lame-duck congressional session because of Democrats' desire to address other issues. "No, no. The a...

GOP 2012 candidate: Ive smoked weed, Im pro-choice, I support gay unions, and I want to cut defense spending drastically
Dude, I think this might be the guy. After pointing out that the United States accounts for half of worldwide spending on defense, Johnson suggests the defense Budget might need to be slashed by as much as 44 to 90 percent from current levels. “If you just based it on population alone, we should be spending 5 [percent],” he says. “If you looked at a 23 percent reduction in Government Spending, which would just balance revenues with expenditures, if you look at what defense would then hav

Gary Johnson: Yea, I Inhaled. Two Years Ago, Actually.
What will Republicans think of a Candidate for President who admitted to smoking marijuana as recently as two years ago?...

Taxes Deal?
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. White House officials and Congressional Republicans said Sunday they were closing in on a deal to temporarily continue the Bush-era Tax Cuts at all income levels, while bitterly frustrated Democratic Congressional leaders began exploring whether they would have the votes for such a package. A day after the Senate rejected President Obama’s preferred tax plan, officials said the broad contours of a Compromise were in focus. Rat...

Cave-in or compromise, Obama's tax cut deal with Republicans could win him much, cost him little
Much talk in the 32 days since the Midterm Elections that, while President Obama mentioned his national "shellacking" that day, he'd not made the kind of standard presidential political pivot to signal contrition and acceptance of the voters' overwhelming dissatisfaction with the way he and his Democratic party have run the House, the Senate and the White House since taking control of all three 23 months ago. Can't say that anymore. Not after his major tax flip Monday. A ...

Cave-in or compromise, Obama's tax cut deal with Republicans could win him much, cost him little
Much talk in the 32 days since the Midterm Elections that, while President Obama mentioned his national "shellacking" that day, he'd not made the kind of standard presidential political pivot to signal contrition and acceptance of the voters' overwhelming dissatisfaction with the way he and his Democratic party have run the House, the Senate and the White House since taking control of all three 23 months ago. Can't say that anymore. Not after his major tax flip Monday. A ...

Martinez can create a legacy among sportsmen
Gov.-elect Susana Martinez earned the support of many New Mexico voters by promising to clean up State Government. One subset of the electorate is particularly eager to see change: the 200,000-plus sportsmen of New Mexico. Many people don’t know this, but sportsmen pick up the entire tab for wildlife management in New Mexico through the licenses we buy and the Excise Tax we pay on sporting goods. One would think the State Game Commission, which oversees where and how to spend the $36 milli...

OMG, some Democrats who fight
photo via wu_135 at flickr.com In Iowa the election season saw the removal of three state Supreme Court judges because they ruled, correctly, that the Equal Protection Clause means, equal protection. The incoming Governor, former Governor for Life, now Governor for Second Life, Terry Branstad has determined that Constitutional interpretation needs to be decided by prejudice Referendum leaving it up to which out-of-state group can pump the most money into the State’s business, pref...

Save the North Koreans!
If North Koreans were pandas, would we have let them suffer so? In October 1993, Edward N. Luttwak wrote a brilliant essay for Commentary magazine asking a similar question: "If the Bosnian Muslims had been bottlenose dolphins, would the world have allowed Croats and Serbs to slaughter them by the tens of thousands? If Sarajevo had been an Amazonian rain forest or merely an American wood containing spotted owls, would the Serbs have been allowed to blast it and burn it with their artillery fir...

New memes and old facts when it comes to the oldest hatred
Lately, Mr. Bookworm has been obsessed with Glenn Beck, and he keeps attacking my conservativism by saying that Beck is the “most dangerous man in the world.”  The genesis for this theory is a series of Jon Stewart shows that skewered Glenn Beck shows, in which the latter attacked George Soros. Soros, of course, is genetically Jewish, although he was raised as a Christian, assisted the Nazis with collecting Jewish property (an experience he describes as one of the best in his li...

Save the North Koreans!
If North Koreans were pandas, would we have let them suffer so? In October 1993, Edward N. Luttwak wrote a brilliant essay for Commentary magazine asking a similar question: "If the Bosnian Muslims had been bottlenose dolphins, would the world have allowed Croats and Serbs to slaughter them by the tens of thousands? If Sarajevo had been an Amazonian rain forest or merely an American wood containing spotted owls, would the Serbs have been allowed to blast it and burn it with their artillery fire?...

Outside View: The Bush tax cuts and deficit reduction nonsense
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec. 7 (UPI) -- When debating Tax Cuts and Deficit reduction both parties are blind to facts and deaf to reason. U.S. President Barack Obama and his Democrats stubbornly argue the Economic Recovery will collapse if $40 billion in long-term Unemployment Benefits aren't approved. Yet, they reason a $60 billion annual Tax Increase on families earning more than $250,000 won't impose a greater loss in spending and Economic Growth. No accident that those collecting Unemployment are ...

Why Bother Making Paul Ryan Budget Chair-- Just Let Wall Street Wrote The Budget Directly
Feel the Bipartisan disdain for non-Insiders and non-wealthy Americans! Ryan, who has been tasked by Wall Street-- who have paid him incredibly well for the job-- with dismantling Social Security and Medicare (thanks, Wisconsin; this could be more harmful to America than what you elected). to the U.S. Senate in 1946. After Ryan gets the Bipartisan camaraderie flowing with an unheartfelt paean to a conservative Democrat who was defeated last month, he launches into his Wall Street script: "I be...

December 7th ....A Day That Will Live In Infamy
. . . On December 7th 1941, on an otherwise peaceful Sunday morning on a beautiful Hawaiian island, the first wave of Japanese airplanes left 6 Aircraft carriers and struck Pearl Harbor a few minutes before 8 AM local time. In two waves of terror lasting two long hours, they killed or wounded over 3,500 Americans and sank or badly damaged 18 ships - including all 8 battleships of the Pacific Fleet - and over 350 destroyed or damaged aircraft. At least 1,177 lives were lost when the Battleship...