As I listened to Rep. Barney Frank argue with the reporter that he had never smoked ganja, I remembered this picture that I had come across several months back, of Rep. Frank.

It is possible that Rep. Frank may have once rolled his own cigarettes, but I highly doubt he is the type to do so. This is one very large spliff.
…and Barney, no one is going to believe your line about not being “outdoorsy”, as in North America cannabis plants are usually grown indoors or in people’s backyards and if I remember correctly, it is not an indigenous plant in Maine’s White Mountain National Forest.
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November 11th, 2009 at 12:41 am
That thing in his mouth was either a very large joint or a cigar, and it doesn’t look like a cigar.
November 11th, 2009 at 1:58 am
I highly doubt that’s a giant spliff. If you had something that gigantic it would be something people would be passing around not smoking by themselves casually on the telephone. Looks like a cigar to me.
Is that photoshopped?
November 11th, 2009 at 1:59 am
That looks like something Cheech and Chong would be smoking in their drug smuggling bus.
November 11th, 2009 at 2:15 am
Had he admitted to smoking a little weed every now and then, and maybe pushed for legalization, I’d actually have an ounce of respect for the guy. But never one to disappoint me, Frank played the “I didn’t inhale” card. Figures.
And if it means anything, indigenous or not, Maine’s weed isn’t half bad. Though not nearly as good as Alaskan.
November 11th, 2009 at 2:17 am
#1 Dave. . . In the future, when referring to Barney Frank, please don’t start a sentence with “That thing in his mouth”. The unfortunate images that phrase conjured up completely distracted me from comprehending the rest of your response.
November 11th, 2009 at 5:33 am
It’s a cigar.
Seriously what is this site becoming with front page posts like this?
And what’s with condoning homosexual jokes (re the last bit of that video)?
November 11th, 2009 at 7:43 am
I thought he pronounced his name as Bonnie Fwank.
November 11th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Come on! It’s Barney Frank! If there’s any man in this country ignorant and/or oblivious enough to not recognize weed, he’d be it.