US President JFK Used Medical Cannabis in the White House
The late leader suffered from severe back pain and Addison’s disease (a rare, chronic endocrine disorder). According to John F. Kennedy: A Biography (2006), he often relieved his symptoms with the help of some presidential pot. Although other presidents have admitted to smoking it—whether or not they ‘fessed up to actually inhaling—JFK’s use was, according to the biography, actually in the White House: “On the evening of July 16, 1962, according to [Washington Post executive] Jim Truitt, Kennedy and Mary [...]