Kat Timpf: White Home weed whack – Biden group’s firings over pot use unjust however not shocking. This is why

The Beast attributed its report back to “three individuals aware of the scenario,” including that the coverage even impacted staffers whose marijuana use had solely occurred in a state (or district, within the case of the District of Columbia) the place weed utilization was authorized. 

That is each an injustice and much from an remoted incident. Moderately, the information is simply one other instance of this administration’s hypocritical penchant for saying one factor however doing one other in terms of drug coverage. 

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Now, to be honest, since The Beast’s story got here out, White Home press secretary Jen Psaki has tried to downplay it, tweeting out an NBC Information report from February claiming that the administration “wouldn’t robotically disqualify employees from serving within the White Home,” including that solely 5 individuals who had begun their work on the White Home had been “not employed because of this coverage.”

Psaki additionally despatched a press release to The Beast insisting that the administration had truly “labored … to make sure that extra individuals have the chance to serve than wouldn’t have prior to now with the identical stage of latest drug use.”  

As The Beast famous, nevertheless, Psaki did not observe what number of potential White Home staffers had been disqualified for a job earlier than ever getting the prospect to start out one due to marijuana.  

In any case, although, the truth that even a single staffer had been let go, demoted or disqualified as a result of previous marijuana use – particularly after being informed it most likely wouldn’t have an effect on their employment – just isn’t solely unsuitable, but additionally fully mindless.   

Though I can definitely perceive why the White Home wouldn’t wish to rent a staffer who would present as much as work stoned, I’d problem anybody to search out even a single piece of proof that previous marijuana use (particularly authorized marijuana use, by which no legal guidelines had been damaged) would intervene with an individual’s capacity to do their job. 

Though Biden definitely mentioned a variety of progressive issues throughout his marketing campaign, his prison justice document is nothing wanting draconian.

It’s additionally, fairly frankly, nasty to trick individuals by convincing them that their honesty on this matter could be of no consequence to them professionally, solely to then hearth or demote them for having informed the reality.  

Sadly, as disgusting because the chicanery that this administration appears to have pulled right here is, it’s additionally completely unsurprising. In actual fact, if I needed to sum up the Biden/Harris method to drug coverage in a single phrase, “chicanery” could be precisely the one I’d select.  

Though Biden definitely mentioned a variety of progressive issues throughout his marketing campaign, his prison justice document is nothing wanting draconian, and that’s definitely one thing that he and Harris have in frequent. 

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Worse, this disingenuous disconnect between phrase and deed has solely continued since he’s turn out to be president. For instance: Final month, Biden mentioned: “Nobody ought to go to jail for using a drug.” Though I could agree together with his assertion, I definitely don’t agree with the blatant try and deceive the nation that he was clearly making by saying it. In spite of everything, if Biden actually did really feel this fashion, there’s no cause he wouldn’t be doing one thing to vary it.  

Biden might, for instance, grant clemency to all the individuals at the moment locked up in federal prisons for utilizing criminalized medicine – a lot of whom, by the way in which, are literally rotting there exactly due to the legal guidelines that he himself co-authored or co-sponsored, just like the 1994 Crime Invoice or the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 – however he hasn’t.   

Harris, after all, isn’t a lot better. Positive, she might say she helps the legalization of hashish now, however she additionally oversaw practically 2,000 marijuana convictions throughout her time as a prosecutor in San Francisco, and even declined to help California’s legalization poll measure simply 5 years in the past in 2016.

Like Biden, Harris has additionally, as of but failed, to meaningfully deal with or rectify her previous championing of unjust drug laws or the harm that it has prompted.  

Put merely: The White Home handled these staffers and potential staffers unjustly, and deserves to be known as out for that. In doing so, although, we’ve to additionally make sure you spotlight how this remedy, sadly, doesn’t symbolize the exception, however the rule.  

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Kat Timpf has been a Fox Information contributor since 2015.