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Top GOP contender Cruz 'foolishly experimented with marijuana,' campaign admits after Bush confesses
The London Daily Mail ^ | February 3, 2015 | David Martosko

Posted on 02/03/2015 2:16:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

* It was 'when he was a teenager,' Cruz's spokesperson told Daily Mail Online; 'It was a mistake, and he's never tried it since'
* Rick Perry, Donald Trump and John Bolton say they have never smoked pot; Rand Paul hints that he 'wasn't a choirboy' – but won't answer directly
* Marco Rubio refuses to answer, saying no one will believe him if the answer is 'no'; Carly Fiorina will only say she opposes legalizing weed
* Spokesmen for Govs. Scott Walker and Gov. Chris Christie, and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, ignored questions entirely
* Bush told the Boston Globe on Friday that he had smoked pot as a teenager at his elite prep school

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz smoked marijuana in his youth, his campaign told Daily Mail Online on Tuesday – putting him in the same camp as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who acknowledged his high school pot-smoking days on Friday.

'Teenagers are often known for their lack of judgment, and Sen. Cruz was no exception,' a Cruz spokesperson said.

'When he was a teenager, he foolishly experimented with marijuana. It was a mistake, and he's never tried it since.'

The spokesperson wouldn't elaborate about how many times Cruz had tried the illegal drug, over how long a period the experimentation occurred, and exactly how old he was at the time.

Daily Mail Online asked spokespersons for 10 likely Republican presidential candidates whether their bosses had ever lit up doobies, smoked bongs or otherwise tried weed. Seven of them responded....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: bush; cannabis; marijuana; pot; scottwalker; tedcruz; wod
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To: Mariner

“I used to smoke marijuana. But I’ll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening – or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early midafternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . . But never at dusk.” - Steve Martin


41 posted on 02/03/2015 3:18:11 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So when will the media report that Obama said he "did a little bit of blow"?

It's right there in his book.

42 posted on 02/03/2015 3:18:16 PM PST by what's up
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To: GeronL
"libertarians are like child molesters and I will treat them the same way, and move on"

This from a guy who has a link to mises.org on his "About" page?

So, you're an economic libertarian and social conservative?

43 posted on 02/03/2015 3:23:14 PM PST by Mariner (First the GOP must die. Everything else comes after that.)
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To: katana

He used to hang out with a lot of jazz musicians, I know that.


44 posted on 02/03/2015 3:43:34 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Does that include air guitarists?


45 posted on 02/03/2015 4:25:37 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Everyone makes mistakes. None of us is perfect.


46 posted on 02/03/2015 4:27:23 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Meanwhile, the President of the Choom Gang is still kickin’ the gong around in the White House.


47 posted on 02/03/2015 4:35:26 PM PST by Argus
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To: Argus
Now there is a question candidates should have to answer.

Did you watch The Gong Show?

That would answer a lot of other questions.

48 posted on 02/03/2015 4:44:50 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Cry if I Wanna

I’ve never tried it. I’ve never smoked cigarettes, or cigars either. I have however drank underage.


49 posted on 02/03/2015 4:48:23 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (It's better to die free than live as a slave)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

SO!!! that normal behavior for somebody his age

BTW I think safe to say even me you and fellow freepers you hit the booze or Hippie lettuce OKAY


50 posted on 02/03/2015 5:18:39 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: dfwgator

NO that smack dfwgator

You never saw Clint Eastwood bio pic on Charley Bird Parker right


51 posted on 02/03/2015 5:19:28 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: The KG9 Kid

http://www.openculture.com/2014/11/dragnet-lsd-episode.html


52 posted on 02/03/2015 5:24:27 PM PST by samtheman
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To: The KG9 Kid

The subject, Benjamin Carver, was booked under section 601 of the Welfare and Institution Code, in danger of leading an idle, dissolute or immoral life.

That’s our President!

President 601!


53 posted on 02/03/2015 5:36:41 PM PST by samtheman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dooods! At least HE knows where the Republic was parked.


54 posted on 02/03/2015 6:33:21 PM PST by HLPhat (This space is intentionaly blank.)
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To: Olog-hai
“This is still an issue twenty-four years later? Hmm.”

Every move a candidate made since he/she entered this world, will be on TV and in print.

My husband was likely the first “nude streaker”. His father was an English professor at a university and his two year old son (later my husband), was in the university toddler child care group across the campus. The children were undressed and put in their PJs for an afternoon nap. The professor's son, once his clothes were off, decided to go see his father, so out the door he went and ran across the campus looking for his dad.

If my husband had decided to seek public office, you can be sure his opponent would come up with this nude streaker across campus incident and not mention he was two years old. :o)

55 posted on 02/03/2015 6:38:31 PM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: discostu

You’re right of course, but that’s a hard answer to spit out when you still advocate locking up others for doing the same thing.


56 posted on 02/04/2015 4:31:20 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: GeronL

Who said anything about libertarians? I’m pointing out reality. For as long as we have politicians who hit their teenage years between 1970 and 2005 chances are that in their youth they smoked dope, drank under age, engaged in premarital sex, and if they’re males enjoyed some quality “me time” with porn. Demanding that they say they didn’t is demanding that they lie to you. And we already have too many lies coming out of our politicians.


57 posted on 02/04/2015 7:05:56 AM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

It was ‘when he was a teenager,’ Cruz’s spokesperson told Daily Mail Online; ‘It was a mistake, and he’s never tried it since’
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BULLS**T! Come on Ted; this is the 21st Century and nobody freakin’ cares. Just say: “Hell yes I did it; like 90% of my generation when we were young, so deal with it.” Quit playing this silly-ass “dodge and duck” crap to try to appease a few old Republican ladies in Kansas.


58 posted on 02/05/2015 7:44:30 AM PST by Din Maker (New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez in 2016)
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