Top Ten Presidents that Used Drugs
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29th, 1917 - November 22, 1963) commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination. The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the Peace Corps, developments in the Space Race, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Trade Expansion Act to lower tariffs, the Civil Rights Movement, the "New Frontier" domestic program, and abolition of the federal death penalty in the District of Columbia all took place during his presidency. Kennedy took testosterone to treat his Addison's disease. He also smoked cigars and drank occasionally. Some people close to Kennedy claimed that he also used marijuana, LSD, and cocaine, but no solid evidence has come up to support these accusations. Honestly, considering Kennedy's pretty liberal lifestyle, the accusations could be true.
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who was born in July 6, 1946. He served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. He is the eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. Bush used to drink heavily and use cocaine, but quit both before becoming President.
He was almost eaten by cannibals
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African-American president of the United States.
A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004. Obama reportedly used marijuana, cocaine, smoked, and drank heavily in his youth, but, like Bush, quit before becoming President.
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States. Pierce was a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation. Pierce was an infamous drunk. After losing the presidency, he stated, "There is nothing left...but to get drunk." There were even rumors that he drunkenly ran over an old lady with his carriage, but historians debate the validility of this claim. There are also rumors that he smoked hash.
Ulysses S. Grant was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and the 18th President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States. Grant used cocaine in order to help alleviate the pain of his throat cancer, which developed because of his tobacco addiction. He also drank frequently.
Andrew Jackson was an American statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 . He was born near the end of the colonial era, somewhere near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina, into a recently immigrated Scots-Irish farming family of relatively modest means. He smoked marijuana and tobacco during the Mexican-American war.
Zachary Taylor was the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850. Before his presidency, Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general. He also smoked marijuana during the Mexican-American war.
George Washington (February 22, 1732– December 14, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army, Washington led the Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and served as the president of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which created the Constitution of the United States and the American federal government. Washington has been called the "Father of the Nation" for his manifold leadership in the formative days of the country. He is believed to have either smoked marijuana or used opiates to help alleviate his tooth pain. He also grew hemp, and encouraged the expansion of the practice.
William Jefferson Clinton (Born August 19th 1946) is an American politician who was the 42nd President of the United States. He previously served as governor of Arkansas. He became president after unseating incumbent president George H.W. Bush in 1992. He was re-elected in 1996 after defeating Senator Bob Dole. A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton was ideologically a New Democrat and many of his policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy. ...read more. He smoked marijuana a couple of times in his youth, but claimed that he never inhaled.
Martin Van Buren was an American statesman who served as the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. He was a very heavy drinker