{"id":750059,"date":"2013-05-07T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=228726"},"modified":"2013-05-07T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T18:39:07","slug":"sen-portman-marijuana-use-confirmed-during-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/750059","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Portman Marijuana Use Confirmed During Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rob Portman has smoked marijuana. That was the big reveal during the senator&#8217;s interview with BuzzFeed Brews on Monday evening. Since then, the video blew up as people are somehow drawn to stories of drug use and politicians. <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j8KvHs4y7dM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Portman doesn&#8217;t smoke anymore. That was only during his younger days in the 70s and 80s when BuzzFeed&#8217;s John Stanton said the senator looked &#8220;a bit like a dirty hippie with long hair.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t elaborate on if he used the drug more than once. He did, however, talk about his efforts as a senator to stop drug use in Ohio and around the nation. <\/p>\n<p>Marijuana use among politicians is a popular question to ask during interviews as it always draws a humorous or awkward response. One of the more famous was when former President Bill Clinton was asked if he smoked pot during a 1992 interview. He admitted that he did, but claimed that he didn&#8217;t inhale. <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"616\" height=\"462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CeXGnSpjgNM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[h\/t: <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2013\/05\/sen-rob-portman-says-yes-he-smoked-pot\/\">ABC News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=oO2TUPlCXjo:fhU419ahCHE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=oO2TUPlCXjo:fhU419ahCHE:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=oO2TUPlCXjo:fhU419ahCHE:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=oO2TUPlCXjo:fhU419ahCHE:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=oO2TUPlCXjo:fhU419ahCHE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=oO2TUPlCXjo:fhU419ahCHE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=oO2TUPlCXjo:fhU419ahCHE:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=oO2TUPlCXjo:fhU419ahCHE:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=oO2TUPlCXjo:fhU419ahCHE:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/oO2TUPlCXjo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rob Portman has smoked marijuana. That was the big reveal during the senator&#8217;s interview with BuzzFeed Brews on Monday evening. Since then, the video blew up as people are somehow drawn to stories of drug use and politicians. Of course, Portman doesn&#8217;t smoke anymore. That was only during his younger days in the 70s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-397J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}