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A Twitter account named History in Pictures (followed by 515,501 users) tweeted the following:

President Obama was known to be heavy marijuana smoker in his teen & college days. His nickname was "Barack Oganja".

The following image accompanied the text.

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As I write this, the tweet has been retweeted 4,174 times and favourited 2,448 times. This claim has also been made on FBFacebook (332,000 likes) and other random sites.

  1. Is that Barack Obama in the photograph?
  2. Has he been known to smoke pot? Heavily?
  3. Was he ever nicknamed Barack Oganja?

If this is completely fabricated, please (try to) point out the source of this rumour.

A Twitter account named History in Pictures (followed by 515,501 users) tweeted the following:

President Obama was known to be heavy marijuana smoker in his teen & college days. His nickname was "Barack Oganja".

The following image accompanied the text.

enter image description here

As I write this, the tweet has been retweeted 4,174 times and favourited 2,448 times. This claim has also been made on FB (332,000 likes) and other random sites.

  1. Is that Barack Obama in the photograph?
  2. Has he been known to smoke pot? Heavily?
  3. Was he ever nicknamed Barack Oganja?

If this is completely fabricated, please (try to) point out the source of this rumour.

A Twitter account named History in Pictures (followed by 515,501 users) tweeted the following:

President Obama was known to be heavy marijuana smoker in his teen & college days. His nickname was "Barack Oganja".

The following image accompanied the text.

enter image description here

As I write this, the tweet has been retweeted 4,174 times and favourited 2,448 times. This claim has also been made on Facebook (332,000 likes) and other random sites.

  1. Is that Barack Obama in the photograph?
  2. Has he been known to smoke pot? Heavily?
  3. Was he ever nicknamed Barack Oganja?

If this is completely fabricated, please (try to) point out the source of this rumour.

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Was Barack Obama nicknamed Barack Oganja?

A Twitter account named History in Pictures (followed by 515,501 users) tweeted the following:

President Obama was known to be heavy marijuana smoker in his teen & college days. His nickname was "Barack Oganja".

The following image accompanied the text.

enter image description here

As I write this, the tweet has been retweeted 4,174 times and favourited 2,448 times. This claim has also been made on FB (332,000 likes) and other random sites.

  1. Is that Barack Obama in the photograph?
  2. Has he been known to smoke pot? Heavily?
  3. Was he ever nicknamed Barack Oganja?

If this is completely fabricated, please (try to) point out the source of this rumour.