PM admits to pot use
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk last week admitted in an interview with Newsweek that he had smoked marijuana in his youth.
Tusk said he had been a teenage rebel who felt oppressed by his strict, demanding father.
He said that he had drunk cheap wine and occasionally smoked marijuana as a young man, explaining that harsh conditions and physical work had contributed to his behavior.
"Life in workers' hostels and this type of labor does not help one to read Plato," Tusk said. He also stressed that he thought drugs were evil.
A historian by education, Tusk had problems finding a job in his profession because he was an active member of the Solidarity movement. Instead, he found work performing various kinds of "at-height" labor, such as window cleaning and painting.
According to former PO member Paweł Piskorski, Tusk's confession is a part of a conscious effort to shape the prime minister's image as an average guy, one who was not free of faults.
