I Inhaled
by Mike Genung
"When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it.
I didn't inhale and never tried it again."
-Bill Clinton, during the 1992 presidential campaign.
Many have had a hard time swallowing Bill Clinton’s famous “I didn’t inhale” line.
It conveys a tone of cover up, of a politician trying to side step his actions. During the
presidential campaign in 1992, “I didn’t inhale” quickly became a national punch line for
the evasion of responsibility.
Conversely, Clinton’s vice president, Al Gore, freely confessed to smoking pot during his
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