THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: New York; Clinton Admits Experiment With Marijuana in 1960's
By GWEN IFILL
Published: March 30, 1992
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/30/us/th ... 960-s.html
Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas said yesterday that he experimented with marijuana while he was
a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in the late 1960's, but that he had never used any other illegal drug.
"I've never broken a state law," he said.
"But when I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two,
and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale it, and never tried it again."
In responding to questions at a candidates' forum on WCBS-TV in New York, Mr. Clinton violated his own rule
against answering "Have you ever?" questions and spoke in more detail than he had before about his encounters with drugs.
But he said afterward that he had never before been asked the question as directly, "And I just told the truth."
"That when I was 22, I was in England, I did what most everybody else did over there," he said.
"I tried it a couple of times. I literally didn't like it and never did it again." Mr. Clinton studied at Oxford from 1968 to 1970.
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