Polish PM smoked pot '…and, yes, I did inhale'

THE former United States president Bill Clinton famously took cannabis but insisted he did not inhale. Poland's prime minister has no such qualms.

Donald Tusk told the Polish edition of Newsweek that he smoked marijuana while living in a workers' hostel during martial law in the 1980s.

Asked if he refrained from inhaling, Mr Tusk said: "I would never use that hypocritical Clintonian phrase, but this is really nothing worth talking about."

He was doing manual work at the time at a power plant, and the magazine noted alcohol was sometimes difficult to find in communist Poland. He said: "I never took drugs except as a juvenile stunt. Nevertheless, it is nothing to be proud of."

It is possibly the first confession of marijuana use by a leader from ex-communist eastern Europe.