Kat Timpf: White House weed whack – Biden team's firings over pot use unjust but not surprising. Here's why
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On Friday, The Daily Beast reported that dozens of Joe Biden’s White House staffers "have been suspended, asked to resign, or placed in a remote work program" because of past marijuana use, despite the fact that they’d previously been told that past use likely would not disqualify them.
This is both an injustice and far from an isolated incident. Rather, the news is just another example of this administration’s hypocritical penchant for saying one thing but doing another when it comes to drug policy. Although Biden certainly said a lot of progressive things during his campaign, his criminal justice record is nothing short of draconian. Now, to be fair, since The Beast’s story came out, White House press secretary Jen Psaki has attempted to downplay it, tweeting out an NBC News report from February claiming that the administration "wouldn’t automatically disqualify staff from serving in the White House," adding that only five people who had begun their work at the White House were "no longer employed as a result of this policy."More Related News