Mayor Rob Ford admits he’s “smoked a lot” of marijuana.

Ford — who has been battling drug allegations for months — was asked Wednesday for his reaction to federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and Premier Kathleen Wynne’s pot-smoking confessions.

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“I don’t know why they are all coming out,” Ford shrugged. “You’ve got to ask them.”

The mayor of Canada’s largest city was then asked if he’s ever smoked marijuana.

“Oh, yeah,” Ford said smiling. “I won’t deny that. I’ve smoked a lot of it.”

Ford was then whisked away by his handlers as reporters tried to ask when was the last time he burned one or tried any other drug.

Ford’s press secretary did not respond to a request to clarify if the mayor has smoked a spliff since taking office.

The mayor’s pot-smoking admission comes four months after he was accused of appearing in a video allegedly smoking crack cocaine. In the wake of that scandal, Ford denied he was addicted to crack or a user of that drug and refused to comment on the video.

Ford was caught in Florida with a marijuana joint in his pocket in 1999.

When the Toronto Sunconfronted him about that arrest in 2010, Ford said he no longer uses marijuana.

“I don’t use drugs,” Ford said in August 2010 at the height of the mayoral campaign. “I’m not in that scene.”

Before he admitted to smoking grass, Ford had just wrapped up a speech to the Cambridge Club where he touted his administration’s accomplishments and urged members to support him in the next election.

“We still have a lot of work to do,” Ford told the lunchtime crowd. “You’re going to have to make a decision, folks, on Oct. 27, 2014. Do you trust me with your hard-earned tax dollars? If you do, I’m willing to serve for another four years to make the city an even better place.”

Ford isn’t the only one on city council who has admitted smoked weed.

Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong said he’s smoked pot once or twice but “got really sick” afterwards.

“Our generation, unless you’ve been living under a rock or in a convent it is hard not to have been in a circumstance where you have been around marijuana or offered it,” Minnan-Wong said. “I think emphasis should be more around the merits of whether it should be legalized rather than to take a survey of prominent people who have tried it or use it.”

TTC chair Karen Stintz said she’s tried marijuana.

“Can I borrow a line from Stephen Harper? I was given a joint once at a party but I was too drunk to smoke it,” she said. “It is truly Stephen Harper’s line but it may have applied in my circumstance as well. In answer to your question, yes, I’ve smoked pot.”

Stintz said the real issue is how society deals with marijuana.

“We distract ourselves from that issue when we ask politicians whether or not they’ve smoked pot,” she said. “The reality is the police chiefs have come together to come up with some reasonable solutions about how we deal with marijuana use and I think we should start listening to those chiefs of police and start talking about the issue as opposed to individual views of politicians.”

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With Canadian politicians coming clean about their past pot use, here are some other politicians who have publicly admitted using marijuana.

Bill Clinton: In 1992, while running for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, Clinton made the infamous remarks about smoking pot but said, “I didn’t inhale.”

Barack Obama: Before he announced his bid for the presidency, Obama took the opposite approach to Clinton, even poking fun at the former president. “When I was a kid, I inhaled. That was the point."

Boris Johnson: The controversial London mayor has admitted to smoking pot, but also once joked about cocaine use when has was a teen on a U.K. TV quiz show in 2005. “I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed and so it did not go up my nose. In fact, I may have been doing icing sugar.”