{"id":258747,"date":"2021-03-19T20:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=258747"},"modified":"2021-03-19T20:01:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T00:01:02","slug":"report-dozens-of-white-house-staffers-sacked-or-suspended-for-past-recreational-use-of-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-dozens-of-white-house-staffers-sacked-or-suspended-for-past-recreational-use-of-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Dozens of White House staffers sacked or suspended for past recreational use of cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-dozens-of-white-house-staffers-sacked-or-suspended-for-past-recreational-use-of-cannabis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=258747&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2389524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2389524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 MARCH 18: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris leads a meeting with women leaders of the labor community to commemorate Womens History Month and the passage of the American Rescue Plan in Harris\u2019 ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on March 18, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 4:45 PM PT \u2013 Friday, March 19, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The White House defended the move to fire and sideline staffers with past cannabis use despite its previous position to overlook weed consumption during the transition.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki responded to those reports in a tweet. She doubled down and said \u201cof 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jen Psaki (@PressSec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec\/status\/1372921409509462018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This came after the previous Biden position would \u201clikely overlook past marijuana use\u201d so long as it was \u201climited\u201d and the staffer \u201cwasn\u2019t pursuing a position that required a security clearance.\u201d In the meantime, the move also shined a light on VP Kamala Harris\u2019 previous admission during the 2020 Democrat primary that she smoked marijuana in the past.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hear what <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KamalaHarris?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KamalaHarris<\/a> thinks about legalizing marijuana \ud83d\udcac <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YGZlCAKUZ0\">pic.twitter.com\/YGZlCAKUZ0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Breakfast Club (@breakfastclubam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/breakfastclubam\/status\/1094953059334176770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On The Breakfast Club morning radio show, Harris was asked if she had ever smoked. She answered, \u201cI have, and I inhaled.\u201d She also stated she remembered the high.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if VP Harris will be sidelined as well.<\/p>\n<p>The White House move was in stark contrast to the recent actions taken by the Democrat-led Senate, which has pushed for marijuana legalization as 14 states, including Washington D.C., have voted to approve recreational or medicinal cannabis use.<\/p>\n<h4>RELATED:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-schumer-plans-to-push-federal-marijuana-reform-to-high-priority\/\">Sen. Schumer Plans To Push Federal Marijuana Reform To High Priority<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 MARCH 18: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris leads a meeting with women leaders of the labor community to commemorate Womens History Month and the passage of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275746,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}