SHE INHALED, UNLIKE BILL

LONDON: Britain's minister in charge of the fight against drugs, Mo
Mowlam, had admitted that she "tried marijuana" as a student, but
insisted that the occasional smoke never became a habit.

``I've never made any secret of being a child of the '60s, never
have,'' she said in an interview with Skynews. In contrast to
President Bill Clinton --who has maintained that he never ``inhaled''
the cannabis he was once proffered --Mowlam bluntly admitted: ``I
tried marijuana, didn't like it particularly and, unlike President
Clinton, I did inhale.'' ``But it wasn't part of my life then and
that's what happened,'' the minister added.

Mowlam, aged 50, has previously alluded in interviews to her
colourful life as a radical student in the 1960s, first at Durham
University in England and then at the University of Iowa in the US.