NOW: From the WH regarding marijuana use among staff members

[Dennis Donovan]

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Brian J. Karem @BrianKarem

NOW: From the WH regarding marijuana use among staff members :

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8:23 AM · Mar 25, 2021

Good! It was a dumb policy.

[SheltieLover]

1. Time to legalize it

[ms liberty]

4. This. n/t

[underpants]

2. Fox News: White House run by potheads

[taxi]

3. also Fox News: Pot Discovered In Kitchen Fire nt

[speak easy]

10. In close proximity to a kettle

[taxi]

12. touche'

[Ramsey Barner]

30. Police describe both Pot and Kettle as Black

[Lefty Skates]

33. Judge denies bail

Pot and Kettle remain in police custody

[3auld6phart]

24. LoL

Now ain’t that the truth.Good one

[taxi]

29. It's a binary thing. Our side bring people to happiness, . :) nt

[berni_mccoy]

8. And that's a bad thing because...?

Lol you beat me to it!

[sanatanadharma]

5. Cannabis use ought to be 'don't ask, don't say' off-work activity

Cannabis use ought to be 'don't ask, don't say' off-work activity.

Actual behavioral problems can be addressed without assumptions that Friday night makes M-F work suspect.

[Escurumbele]

6. It should be legalized, people need to have good judgement to not go to work stoned

Just the same way as people don't go to work drunk...It is the same thing.

[Johnny2X2X]

21. 100% should be legal everywhere

But when it comes to security clearance, I will go with whatever the security experts say. If they say weed use prevents you from getting the adequate security clearance to do your job then that's what it is.

[George II]

7. Another fake "scandal" and failure of "transparency" down the drain. Next for the Biden bashers?

By the way, this isn't very different from the first releases about White House staffers and marijuana usage, it's just a more explicit clarification of what happened, or didn't happen.

If we look back to last week when this first broke, it was pretty obvious that no one was dismissed but many people looked past that for some reason.

[TheRickles]

9. So what actually happened? I thought some staff were in fact let go....

[Arazi]

11. Yes, 5 were let go for cannabis use. This doesn't clarify much

[TheRickles]

14. So were they let go for frequent use during the past 12 months?

That possibility would fit into the loopholes of the languaging that the WH used here.

[dsc]

20. and/or lying about said use

[lagomorph777]

15. Maybe they were smoking in the break room.

[JI7]

22. Probably weren't truthful which is seen as worse than the actual act

[George II]

31. Perhaps they were let go for using it on the job or being "under the influence" on the job....

It's a personnel issue that will not and should not be made public, unless they do so themselves.

[Xavier Breath]

13. I'd have to think that daily dealing with the likes of

Mitch McConnell and today's RepubliQan party would require at least having some edibles on your desk.

[JT45242]

16. Most likely for lying about using it

If they lied about using cannabis on their many disclosure and clearance forms that would be grounds for dismissal.

Any falsehood on those would void your clearance and lead to your termination. (Unless you were one of the former guy's relatives pr cronies).

[Duppers]

17. Where's the WH Official Statement???

This was from a journalist working for Playboy & CNN.

The Daily Beast reported this days ago:

Several staffers were informally told by transition officials that some past marijuana use would be overlooked, only to be told later that they were being asked to resign.

And from MSNBC:

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/biden-s-white-house-firing-staffers-marijuana-use-s-mistake-n1261700

And an AP article stated:

5 White House staffers lose jobs over drugs, marijuana use
By JOSH BOAK
March 19, 2021

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-marijuana-jen-psaki-9034ae417f63e1bd8ae6f957fa173ec3&ved=2ahUKEwj0hO-eyMvvAhUGFVkFHbUFBRMQFjAEegQIGhAC&usg=AOvVaw11wxwqrr5r0yBjZ19z-Vmp


So, what's the truth here???
Some face-saving "it didn't happen"?

[Duppers]

19. Ok, from Forbes...

Biden White House Admits Firing Staffers For Marijuana, But Still Employs Some Past Pot Users

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisroberts/2021/03/19/biden-white-house-blasted-for-punishing-staffers-for-using-marijuana/


MJ smokers, Biden is not liking what you smoke.

[twodogsbarking]

18. Years back the owner of a local business considered doing drug tests on employees.

My friend that worked there told him that if he did he would have to fire everyone.
No tests.

[Betty88]

27. Just about the same thing at our office

One afternoon I was chatting with a co-worker. Pot use must have been in the news or something. He said we should all be tested, I looked at him and said "you must want to do a BUNCH of overtime" I explained that he was just about the only person in the building that did not smoke lol.

time to wake up sunshine

[Takket]

23. Good. I hope whoever pushed this nonsense

Got disciplined or canned.

[RicROC]

25. no more new wars?

maybe with Marij. use, we can be less concerned about warmongering? Anyway to serve M. tea in the Senate chambers?

[IbogaProject]

26. I voted for them..

I voted for them even though they both have long anti-cannabis records. This all started when yellow journalist Hearst teamed up a DuPont, the emerging BIG pharma, BIG medicine and the coming BIG oil to suppress their feared "race mixing" and class solidarity arising around the Jazz scene.
Heaven forbid they judge individuals by the merit of their work quality.

[Mr. Evil]

28. For all practical reasons it should be legal.

Tax it like cigarettes. Regulate it like alcohol. A portion of the revenue (which would be significant) could be used for addiction treatment (for much worse controlled substances and alcoholism).

[progressoid]

32. No one?? Does that mean that the White House is going to rehire the people they've already fired?

There seems to be a lack of a consistent policy and enforcement.