Updated Jul 6, 2023, 04:03pm EDT
Topline
Cocaine was found in the White House on Sunday, however this isn’t the very first time drugs have actually been utilized in the building, or supposedly by presidents, as individuals like Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson have actually confessed to utilizing illegal drugs in the “People’s House.”
Timeline
Jefferson Airplane diva Grace Slick attempted to increase President Richard Nixon’s beverage with acid. She informed the Wall Street Journal she had actually gone to the exact same school as very first child Tricia Nixon, who welcomed her fellow graduates to the White House. Slick’s strategy was to increase President Nixon’s tea with acid, however a security personnel rejected her entryway, mentioning the rocker was a “security risk.”
Willie Nelson confessed smoking cigarettes with a White House servant in his 1988 autobiography. However, after President Carter fixed him, Nelson revealed it was really Carter’s child, Chip Carter, he had actually smoked with on the roofing of the White House. Chip Carter told the Los Angeles Times the 2 snuck off throughout among Nelson’s efficiencies to check out, which’s when the duo increased to the roofing and “lit one up.”
In a 1987 first-person Sports Illustrated story, previous Villanova college basketball star Gary McLain revealed he was high on drug when he satisfied President Ronald Reagan in 1985 at a Rose Garden event to commemorate Villanova’s NCAA triumph. According to McLain, the drug had him “floating in [his] own private world.”
Snoop Dogg confessed on his online show, GGN: The Double G News Network, that he smoked a blunt in a White House restroom, probably in December 2013 throughout the 2nd Obama term. Dogg informed visitor Jimmy Kimmel he asked among the “alphabet boys,” (describing either a member of the CIA or FBI) to utilize the restroom. When the representative asked if he was going “No. 1 or No. 2,” Dogg said No. 2. However, he discussed he needs to light something up like a cigarette or napkin to eliminate the odor, and he wound up illuminating a blunt rather. This wasn’t his last time smoking around the White House. In 2018, he beinged in the general public park in front of the White House and smoked cannabis while engaging with fans.
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Tangent
Though it didn’t take place at the White House, David Cross admitted to snorting drug at a White House Correspondents supper in 2009, and he approximated that he had to do with 65 feet far from President Barack Obama when he ducked under a table and snorted it. Though, he said it was a “tiny granule of coke” and insufficient to get him high—he simply did it to state he snorted drug in the exact same room as the president.
Key Background
On Tuesday, the Secret Service revealed drug was discovered in the White House on Sunday night. The discovery triggered an evacuation—though President Joe Biden was at Camp Davis and not present. The Washington D.C. Fire Department examined and concluded the compound was nonhazardous. The Secret Service informed Forbes the compound was discovered in a workspace in the west wing.
Further Reading
Cocaine Found In White House (Forbes)
She Went Chasing Rabbits (Wall Street Journal)
When Jimmy Carter’s White House was a tour stop for long-haired, ‘torpedo’-smoking rock outlaws (Los Angeles Times)
