From: [C upi] at [clari.net] (UPI)
Newsgroups: clari.news.alcohol+drugs,clari.usa.gov.politics,clari.usa.top
Subject: Lamm: Pot made campfire 'interesting'
Keywords: politics, social issues, substance abuse
Organization: Copyright 1996 by United Press International
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:20:22 PDT
                                         
        DENVER, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Former presidential aspirant Dick Lamm said  
Wednesday that he smoked marijuana on three different kayaking trips 
with friends, and on at least one of those occasions stared enraptured 
at a campfire. 
        ``I tried it, yes, on a river trip,'' the former Colorado governor  
said in an interview on Denver radio station KTLK. ``I used to do a lot 
of kayaking, and other people had some marijuana on a kayaking trip on 
the Green and the Yampa (rivers).'' 
        Lamm, 60, who last week lost the Reform Party presidential nomination  
to Ross Perot, said the episodes were about 25 years ago, which is 
before he was elected governor but during the time he served in the 
Colorado House. 
        ``We used to do a lot of kayaking, and they were a great bunch of  
people,'' Lamm said. ``I remember looking into the coals of the fire, 
and it was an interesting experience.'' 
        Lamm, who was defeated by Perot in Reform Party balloting, was  
governor from 1975 to 1987 and made an unsuccessful run for the 
Democratic nomination for Senate in 1992. He runs the University of 
Denver's Center for Public Policy.