Editor's Note: Marijuana is already stepping into the limelight well ahead of the 2016 presidential election, with stories (like this one from The Huffington Post) of Florida Governor Jeb Bush's use of the drug while in high school, especially notable after Bush's opposition to medical marijuana in Florida and his history of pushing for jail time for non-violent drug offenders. Wonder what Bush would say if he was faced with jail time for his use of marijuana? Â
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush smoked marijuana while in high school, a personal use of the drug that stands in contrast to his later political stance on the plant.
“I drank alcohol and I smoked marijuana when I was at Andover,” Bush, the current Republican frontrunner seeking his party's 2016 presidential nomination, told the Boston Globe as part of a detailed new profile that describes his time at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Both George H.W. Bush, Jeb's father, and George W. Bush, his brother, also attended the prestigious private school.
“It was pretty common," Bush said of his substance use during that time.
