Drugs: CzarBiden and KamalaTheInhaler Fire Staff - Party Drugs for Us, Jobless Poverty and Prison for You

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-white-house-sandbags-staffers-sidelines-dozens-for-pot-use
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/past-marijuana-use-won-t-automatically-disqualify-biden-white-house-n1258917

https://twitter.com/SlimiHendrix/status/1372888660945866753
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1372904356937359366
https://twitter.com/tomjohn266/status/1323492133551009792
https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1372893553345458187

Pot-Smoking White House Staffers Punished For Past Use Despite Assurances

Dozens of White House staffers have been suspended, relocated, or
asked to resign over past marijuana use, despite initial indications
from transition officials that recreational use of cannabis would not
be a disqualifying factor, according to the Daily Beast, citing three
anonymous sources.

    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. -Daily Beast

Staffers were initially told by transition higher-ups that the
administration would likely overlook past marijuana use, only to later
be asked for their resignation.

"There were one-on-one calls with individual affected staffers—rather,
ex-staffers," one former White House staffer told the Beast. "I was
asked to resign."

"Nothing was ever explained" on the calls led by White House Director
of Management and Administration, Anne Filipic. "The policies were
never explained, the threshold for what was excusable and what was
inexcusable was never explained."

The news comes after a February report from NBC News that the White
House would waive the requirement that all potential appointees in the
Executive Office obtain "top secret" clearance.

    The rules about past marijuana use and eligibility for the
clearance vary, depending on the agency: For the FBI, an applicant
can’t have used marijuana in the past three years; at the NSA, it’s
only one. The White House, however, largely calls its own shots, and
officials at the time told NBC News that as long as past use was
“limited” and the candidate wasn’t pursuing a position that required a
security clearance, past use may be excused. -Daily Beast

    this is so fuckin funny pic.twitter.com/d0MAT4s8yc
    — Trey Smith (@SlimiHendrix) March 19, 2021

    Kamala Harris marching the young staffers who smoked weed out of
the White House straight to Gitmo pic.twitter.com/H8lTQjPb3x
    — Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) March 19, 2021

What about Kamala?

In February, 2019, Kamala was trying to look cool on The Breakfast
Club - where she was asked by host Charlamagne Tha God whether she
ever smoked pot, to which the now-Vice President replied: "I have. And
I inhaled – I did inhale. It was a long time ago. But, yes."

    Kamala did inhale.
    Others went to jail. pic.twitter.com/D7GwQBandp
    — Tom John - 🌎NoH8 (@tomjohn266) November 3, 2020

When reached for comment, a White House spokesperson disputed the
number of affected staff, but said that the Biden administration is
"committed to bringing the best people into government—especially the
young people whose commitment to public service can deepen in these
positions."

"The White House’s policy will maintain the absolute highest standards
for service in government that the president expects from his
administration, while acknowledging the reality that state and local
marijuana laws have changed significantly across the country in recent
years," the spokesperson added. "This decision was made following
intensive consultation with career security officials and will
effectively protect our national security while modernizing policies
to ensure that talented and otherwise well-qualified applicants with
limited marijuana use will not be barred from serving the American
people."

The president, meanwhile, is the final authority on who can receive a
security clearance - meaning he has the power to keep promises made to
his own staff whose dream jobs were just derailed.

    One thing I find genuinely admirable about Joe Biden is that with
his son Hunter he understands that a punitive approach to drug use is
harmful and counterproductive. But it's hard to square that with his
hardline war on drugs position for everyone else.
https://t.co/vDRFRbf0VM
    — Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 19, 2021