Fired for smoking weed
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-white-house-sandbags-staffers-sidelines-dozens-for-pot-use
Dozens of young White House staffers have been suspended, asked to resign, or placed in a remote work program due to past marijuana use, frustrating staffers who were pleased by initial indications from the Biden administration that recreational use of cannabis would not be immediately disqualifying for would-be personnel, according to three people familiar with the situation.
The policy has even affected staffers whose marijuana use was exclusive to one of the 14 states—and the District of Columbia—where cannabis is legal. Sources familiar with the matter also said a number of young staffers were either put on probation or canned because they revealed past marijuana use in an official document they filled out as part of the lengthy background check for a position in the Biden White House.
In some cases, staffers were informally told by transition higher-ups ahead of formally joining the administration that they would likely overlook some past marijuana use, only to be asked later to resign.
“There were one-on-one calls with individual affected staffers—rather, ex-staffers,” one former White House staffer affected by the policy told The Daily Beast. “I was asked to resign.”
And, the obvious question:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/11/politics/kamala-harris-marijuana-legalization/index.html
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I very much doubt that Kamala inhaled.
She's basically my age. Snoop Dogg and Tupac weren't even recording when she went to college.
It must be something about not inhaling that makes people lie.
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@doctor-phibes said in Fired for smoking weed:
I very much doubt that Kamala inhaled.
She's basically my age. Snoop Dogg and Tupac weren't even recording when she went to college.
It must be something about not inhaling that makes people lie.
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday defended the administration’s policy on marijuana use by employees after a report said dozens of young staffers were suspended or asked to resign because of past use of the drug.
Psaki wrote in a series of tweets that only five people who had started working at the White House had lost their jobs because of the administration’s policy on past marijuana use. She did not indicate how many had been suspended or turned away before starting work, but she pointed to the administration relaxing rules around past marijuana use earlier this year.
“We announced a few weeks ago that the White House had worked with the security service to update the policies to ensure that past marijuana use wouldn’t automatically disqualify staff from serving in the White House,” she tweeted.
From the RWEC the following questions:
- Only 5 people were "fired," How many were suspended?
- How many who were scheduled to work were not hired?
As long as marijuana remains a Schedule 1 drug, Biden has two choices.
One is that he can continue to give pink slips to people he specifically told to be honest about their past marijuana use and not worry about it. The other is to override the background check system and order them to receive security clearances anyway. The latter would be in his power to do, but after all the griping that was done over Donald Trump using the same method to get a clearance for Jared Kushner, the hypocrisy might have been too much for even Biden to bear.
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@george-k said in Fired for smoking weed:
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday defended the administration’s policy on marijuana use by employees after a report said dozens of young staffers were suspended or asked to resign because of past use of the drug.
Psaki wrote in a series of tweets that only five people who had started working at the White House had lost their jobs because of the administration’s policy on past marijuana use. She did not indicate how many had been suspended or turned away before starting work, but she pointed to the administration relaxing rules around past marijuana use earlier this year.
“We announced a few weeks ago that the White House had worked with the security service to update the policies to ensure that past marijuana use wouldn’t automatically disqualify staff from serving in the White House,” she tweeted.
From the RWEC the following questions:
- Only 5 people were "fired," How many were suspended?
- How many who were scheduled to work were not hired?
As long as marijuana remains a Schedule 1 drug, Biden has two choices.
One is that he can continue to give pink slips to people he specifically told to be honest about their past marijuana use and not worry about it. The other is to override the background check system and order them to receive security clearances anyway. The latter would be in his power to do, but after all the griping that was done over Donald Trump using the same method to get a clearance for Jared Kushner, the hypocrisy might have been too much for even Biden to bear.
Certainly many people in high government places would lose their jobs. That is axiomatic.
There is something else going on here. I could venture a guess or two but since the media doesn’t know or doesn’t want to say I wonder what others think.
