Barry The Dope Dealer; one reason Obama's school files are SEALED.
Barry was quite the accomplished marijuana addicted enthusiast back in high school and
college. Excerpts from David Maraniss' Barack Obama: The Story "Barry the Dope dealer"
with the elaborate drug culture surrounding the president when he attended Punahou
School in Honolulu and Occidental College in Los Angeles . He definitely inhaled, a hell of
a lot of smoke.
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.
4. Penalties
When you were with Barry and his pals, if you exhaled precious pakalolo (Hawaiian slang for
marijuana, meaning "numbing tobacco") instead of absorbing it fully into your lungs, you were
assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around. "Wasting
good bud smoke was not tolerated," explained one member of the Choom Gang, Tom
Topolinski, the Chinese-looking kid with a Polish name who answered to Topo.
5. The Choomwagon
[Choom Gang member] Mark Bendix's Volkswagen bus, also known as the Choomwagon. …
The other members considered Mark Bendix the glue, he was funny, creative, and
uninhibited, with a penchant for Marvel Comics. He also had that VW bus and a house with a
pool, a bong, and a Nerf basketball, all enticements for them to slip off midday for a few
unauthorized hours of recreation...
6. Interceptions
Barry also had a knack for interceptions. When a joint was making the rounds, he often
elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted "Intercepted!," and took an extra hit. No one seemed
to mind.
7. Slippers
Choom Gang members often made their way to Aku Ponds at the end of Manoa Stream,
where they slipped past the liliko'i vines and the KAPU (keep out) signs, waded into waist-high
cool mountain water, stood near the rock where water rushed overhead, and held up a slipper
(what flip-flops are called in Hawaii) to create an air pocket canopy. It was a natural high, they
said, stoned or not.
8. Ray The Dealer
He was a long-haired haole hippie who worked at the Mama Mia Pizza Parlor not far from
Punahou and lived in a dilapidated bus in an abandoned warehouse. … According to
Topolinski, Ray the dealer was "freakin' scary." Many years later they learned that he had
been killed with a ball-peen hammer by a scorned gay lover. But at the time he was useful
because of his ability to "score quality weed."
...
In another section of the [senior] yearbook, students were given a block of space to express
thanks and define their high school experience. … Nestled below [Obama's] photographs was
one odd line of gratitude: "Thanks Tut, Gramps, Choom Gang, and Ray for all the good
times." … A hippie drug-dealer made his acknowledgments; his own mother did not.
9. Pumping Stations
Their favorite hangout was a place they called Pumping Stations, a lush hideaway off an
unmarked, roughly paved road partway up Mount Tantalus . They parked single file on the
grassy edge, 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 bottle
beer" (the Choom Gang preferred Heineken, Becks, and St. Pauli Girl).
10. Veto
One of the favorite words in their subculture revealed their democratic nature. The word was
veto. 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 wash not approved. They later
shortened the process so that you could just shout "V" to get the point across.. In the Choom
Gang, all V's were created equal.
11. Maui Wowie, Kauai Electric, Puna Bud And Kona Gold
In the Honolulu of Barry's teenage years marijuana was flourishing up in the hills, out in the
countryside, in covert greenhouses everywhere. It was sold and smoked right there in front
of your nose; Maui Wowie, Kauai Electric, Puna Bud, Kona Gold, and other local variations
of pakololo were readily available.
12. The Barf Couch
The Barf Couch earned its name early in the first trimester when a freshman across the hall
from Obama [in the Haines Hall Annex dorm at Occidental College ] drank himself into a stupor
and threw up all over himself and the couch. In the manner of pallbearers hoisting a coffin, a
line of Annexers lifted the tainted sofa with the freshman aboard and toted it out the back door
and down four steps to the first concrete landing on the way to the parking lot. A day later, the
couch remained outside in the sun, resting on its side with cushions off (someone had hosed it
clean), and soon it was back in the hallway nook.
13. The Annex Olympics
(The main hallway at Haines Hall was called the Annex,) home to the impromptu Annex
Olympics: long-jumping onto a pile of mattresses, wrestling in underwear, hacking golf balls
down the hallway toward the open back door, boxing while drunk. There were the non-Olympic
sports of lighting farts and judging them by color, tipping over the Coke machine, breaking the
glass fire extinguisher case, putting out cigarettes on the carpet, falling asleep on the carpet,
flinging Frisbees at the ceiling-mounted alarm bell, tasting pizza boxes to the floor, and
smoking pot from a three-foot crimson opaque bong, a two-man event involving the smoker
and an accomplice standing ready to respond to the order "Hey, dude, light the bowl!
Resources:
1.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/the-choom-gang-president-obamas-p
ot-smoking-high-school-days-detailed-in-maraniss-book/2012/05/25/gJQAwFqEqU_blog.HTML
2. http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/10218-for-choom-the-bell-tolls
3.
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/politics-raising-children/2012/may/29/le
ssons-choom-gang-dont-air-your-dirty-laundry/
4. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-and-his-pot-smoking-choom-gang/
5.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/05/27/the_choom_gang_obama039s_pot-smoking_days
_280927.html
6.
http://theweek.com/article/index/228490/the-choom-gang-9-juiciest-details-from-barack-obama
s-days-as-a-pothead
7.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/the-top-headlines-about-barack-obamas-pot-smoking-high-sc
hool-choom-gang/
8. http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/a-users-guide-to-smoking-pot-with-barack-obama
WHY WASN'T THIS ALL ON THE NEWS IN 2008 WHEN HE WAS RUNNING FOR OFFICE
?????
and WHY ISN'T THE NEWS TALKING ABOUT IT TODAY ?????
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