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Minchin: I used to smoke dope

July 12, 2007

 

Nick Minchin has admitted he smoked dope at high school, but did not share a joint with Peter Garrett when they were both at an Australian National University college.

 

It may have come as a bit of a shock to the audience at the National Press Club that the now-silver-haired coalition senator, with the stuffy portfolio of Minister for Finance, smoked marijuana when he was young but he freely admits it.

 

Former Midnight Oil frontman Mr Garrett, now a Labor frontbencher, came under the spotlight this week after Silverchair singer Daniel Johns said he had smoked joints with the MP and U2 rocker Bono.

 

Johns later retracted the comment, saying it was a joke, but Mr Garrett released a statement saying he had smoked marijuana when he was in his 20s.

 

"Peter Garrett was there (at Burgmann College) at the same time as me, and my recollection is that at that time we were both much more interested in bodysurfing on the NSW south coast than in politics," Senator Minchin said. Asked whether they had smoked marijuana together, he quipped: "I don't recall actually smoking dope with Mr Garrett . . . the room was too cloudy."

 

He says he smoked the weed when he was at high school in the US, but today has strong views against its use.

 

"For me to suggest that I have never smoked marijuana, I would be lying through my teeth. Of course I did at that time at school and probably at university," Senator Minchin said.

 

He said the casual, social use of marijuana was a fact of life for people of his vintage that went to school and university in the late 60s and early 70s. "So I'm not going to play games and pretend it didn't occur," he said. "But I'm certainly not going to indict Peter Garrett, and I did not observe him smoking any marijuana at Burgmann College".

 

Labor leader Kevin Rudd, who also went to Burgmann, said yesterday that smoking marijuana was never part of his scene.

 

"I've always had a very tough line on this stuff - really, really hard line," Mr Rudd told the Nine Network. "I'm in John Howard's camp on this one. We have a unity ticket."

 

Senator Minchin's views are also quite different today and he actively discourages smoking marijuana. "I have three children. One is in primary, one is in secondary and one in tertiary, and I do spend a lot of my time explaining to them the evils of consumption of marijuana, and do as I say, not what I do," he said. AAP

 

from brisbanetimes.com.au

 

At this rate both sides of government will be full of x-pot smokers before the election. Of course none of them do it NOW do they. They are too busy drinking wine from the vineyards that they own or have shares in. No wonder pot remains illegal.

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from brisbanetimes.com.au

 

At this rate both sides of government will be full of x-pot smokers before the election. Of course none of them do it NOW do they. They are too busy drinking wine from the vineyards that they own or have shares in. No wonder pot remains illegal.

 

hah, freddie, thanks for posting. :)

 

'Course, this part disturbs me...

 

 

 

Labor leader Kevin Rudd, who also went to Burgmann, said yesterday that smoking marijuana was never part of his scene.

 

"I've always had a very tough line on this stuff - really, really hard line," Mr Rudd told the Nine Network. "I'm in John Howard's camp on this one. We have a unity ticket."

 

So much for cannabis law reform under a KRudd government...

 

Obviously, Kevvo's problem is that he doesn't smoke enough dope... :)

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It's interesting isn't it? They claim that pot will ruin your life and is so dangerous no-one should ever smoke it, but then people can rise to the heights of power in this country, and the world, and they smoked pot, some of them more than once or twice I'm sure.... so why didn't they succumb to the "demon weed"?

 

Perhaps it's not as bad as they make out eh?

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It's interesting isn't it? They claim that pot will ruin your life and is so dangerous no-one should ever smoke it, but then people can rise to the heights of power in this country, and the world, and they smoked pot, some of them more than once or twice I'm sure.... so why didn't they succumb to the "demon weed"?

 

Perhaps it's not as bad as they make out eh?

 

Dunno, you ever heard Garrett try to maintain a train of thort in an interview? It's not like this guy is new to being on camera or on stage ffs... yet he meanders like a student who prepped for the big exam with the bloody Cliff's Notes.

 

Garrett doesn't actually have a rep as a stoner, but drugs are a much better explanation for his interview and Parliamentary speaking skills- and his DANCING- than just about anything else I can think of. :rolleyes:

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