XPost: can.politics, tor.general, alt.pot   
   From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
   Olivia Chow says she smoked pot "a little bit" when she was younger,   
   including in her early days as a Toronto school-board trustee in the mid   
   to late 1980s.   
      
   The Toronto mayoral candidate and former New Democrat MP told Evan   
   Solomon, host of CBC Radio's The House, that she smoked marijuana when   
   she was a student.   
      
   "Well, when I was in arts school, yes, I've smoked marijuana a little   
   bit," Chow told Solomon.   
      
   "That's never been my thing. Other than the antihistamine that I   
   occasionally need to take because of hay fever … other than that, no   
   [drugs]."   
      
   Asked whether she ever inhaled when she was a New Democrat MP, Chow said no.   
      
   "Not as a member of Parliament. I think in my early days when I was a   
   school trustee. I think that's a long, long time ago," she said.   
      
   "It's really not my thing. And you know, back in the old days when I was   
   in arts school in university, yeah a little bit, but I'd rather work   
   out. I'd rather go swimming and hiking and cycling, and I find that I   
   need to be in very good shape, so that's why drugs is never really my   
   thing."   
      
   Won't talk about Ford's drug use   
      
   Chow, 56, grew up in Toronto and studied philosophy and art, according   
   to her biography. She was elected to the Toronto Board of Education in   
   1985 and served for six years before being elected as a Metro Toronto   
   councillor. She was a city councillor until she was elected as the MP   
   for Toronto's Trinity-Spadina in 2006.   
      
   The NDP are in favour of decriminalizing pot possession.   
      
   One of the candidates Chow faces in the mayoral race is Rob Ford, the   
   incumbent who became infamous around the world after he admitted to   
   smoking crack cocaine.   
      
   Chow says she doesn't want to talk about Ford's drug use.   
      
      
      
      
   "I'd much rather look at his failed policies. For example, that we now   
   in Toronto, one out of 10 of my neighbours are not working and they're   
   desperately looking for a job," she said.   
      
   The Toronto municipal election is Oct. 27. There's no byelection yet   
   called to replace Chow in the House of Commons.   
      
      
      
      
   http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/olivia-chow-smoked-pot-a-little-   
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