By Jill Colvin
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
CITY HALL — It turns out Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice isn't the only candidate for Attorney General who admits to dabbling in drugs when they were young.
Three of the five Democratic candidates and one Republican vying to replace Andrew Cuomo as the state's top law enforcement official say they’ve done their share of experimenting as well.
Rice, 45, admitted to the Daily News that she used both cocaine and marijuana when she was in her 20s in college.
"It was one of those stupid things that people do in their life and you regret and you move on," Rice told the News. "I've seen too much, and too close up, the damage they do to communities and families and public safety.”
But Rice isn't the only one. State Sen. Eric Schneiderman said he also tried cocaine and marijuana in his youth.
"Like many others who grew up in the late '60s and early '70s, Eric regrettably experimented with drugs when he was younger," said Schneiderman spokesman James Freedland.
Former state insurance superintendent Eric Dinallo also admits to smoking pot once, in his junior year of college, spokeswoman Lauren Passalacqua said.
Even Republican nominee Dan Donovan, 53, admitted that he tried marijuana in college, but didn't care for it much, his spokeswoman told the AP.
So who does that leave in the just-say-no column?
Former federal prosecutor Sean Coffey said he's been drug-free his whole life.
"The only drugs I've ever seen have been in evidence bags as a federal prosecutor," Coffey said in a statement.
Assemblyman Richard Brodsky also never felt compelled to inhale.
"Richard has never taken any illegal substance," spokesman Jon Lipshutz said. "There were certainly folks who were using illegal drugs while he was in college and law school in Boston, but he never had any interests," Lipshutz said.
