Those of you following U.S. politics should know that comedian Al Franken is running for Senate against incumbent republican Norm Coleman in Minnesota, and it seems that both of them have some drug skeletons in the closet. Franken, a former writer for SNL, has admitted to doing coke, pot, and possibly acid in his past. But how about Coleman?
It seems that Coleman, who favors harsh drug laws, has also done his share of drugs:
Norm Kent, a former classmate of U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman at Hofstra University, posted a letter on a marijuana website about Coleman's marijuana use in the 1960s. Kent, whom Coleman defeated in a student government race at the university, recalled an instance when the New York-born Coleman stood atop a building during a protest and smoked marijuana.
And while this news is many months old, Kent expands on this statement in a short article in this month's Radar magazine, claiming Coleman "smoked and tripped his way through college" and that pot was the least of drugs he may have gotten into, including "Acid! LSD!", according to Kent.
Coleman is, of course, keeping very quiet about this. In contrast Franken has been quite open about his drug use in the past:
"There'd be cocaine around the show (SNL) and if it was [mid-week] at 3 in the morning and I wanted to finish something I was writing I'd do some."
Cocaine at 3 am while trying to stay awake and write sketch comedy? Indefensible. Also, as a side note, Al Franken once suggested (on live radio) that in order to solve the world's conflicts the entire UN should be shuttled to the international space station and forced to eat LSD while looking down at the Earth. Now that's someone I could vote for.
