From Press Secretary Jen Psaki: White House Past Use Of Marijuana Policies Updated
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. (https://t.co/DG3YuqejtZ)
— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) March 19, 2021
As a result, more people will serve who would not have in the past with the same level of recent drug use. The bottom line is this: of the hundreds of people hired, only five people who had started working at the White House are no longer employed as a result of this policy.
— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) March 19, 2021
Vaguely related:
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We’ll probably never find out because of privacy rules, but my bet is that this is a reasonable outcome, in that these people were applying for jobs in particularly sensitive positions and/or had a history (or present) of particularly heavy drug use. I’m fairly confident that more than 1% of the applicants are current users of marijuana or other recreational drugs, so clearly they’re being pretty selective here in terms of what they consider disqualifying.Report
I agree that it’s not like they can come out and say “we dismissed a staffer who sold drugs in college” instead of “he admitted to getting a contact high at a Phish concert”.
But Kamala bragged about smoking pot.
And here we are.Report
In college, which, even if you include law school, was thirty years ago. Do you think anyone was denied a staff position for thirty-years-ago pot smoking?Report
All I have to go on is what was said and assurances that the gummint is not being dumb about it.Report
This is from The Daily Beast:
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