Cocaine found at the White House: Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, etc. previously confessed to taking drugs there
An investigation has been opened into how a powder, supposedly cocaine, made it into the White House. If stories are true, drugs have been snuck in before.
The Secret Service is investigating how a mysterious package containing a small amount of powder, which was supposedly cocaine, made it into the White House. Its discovery on Sunday prompted an elevated security alert and a brief evacuation of the executive mansion according to Anthony Guglielmi, spokesman for the Secret Service as first reported by The Washington Post.
He told the media outlet that President Biden was not at the White House when the substance was discovered. He and the First Lady were at Camp David and didn’t return until Tuesday morning for the Fourth of July celebrations in the capital.
Cocaine found at the White House
Members of the DC Fire Department’s hazardous materials team who were dispatched to perform a preliminary analysis found that it did not to present a threat. The package, described in a radio dispatch that was picked up as “a yellow bar saying cocaine hydrochloride,” was discovered during a routine round of inspections through the building.
It is now undergoing further tests to clarify exactly what it is. Guglielmi told the Post that the agency tasked with the president’s protection has opened “an investigation into the cause and manner” of the package getting into the White House.
But if the stories are true, at least one corroborated by a former president himself, it wouldn’t be the first time that illicit drugs have been brought into the executive mansion, as well as possibly being used there.
Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, etc. previously confessed to taking drugs at the White House
Willie Nelson in his 1988 autobiography admitted to sitting on the roof of the White House and smoking marijuana. He had been invited to spend the night by then-president Jimmy Carter. Thirty-two years later, in a documentary the former president backed up the musician’s claims, and revealed the real identity of who was up there with the country legend. While in the book, the companion was said to be a White House servant, was in fact one of Carter’s sons, James Earl “Chip” Carter according to President Carter.
Willie Nelson wasn’t the only well-known connoisseur of weed to light up at the White House. Snoop Dogg has shared his own story of heading off to the bathroom during an event to honor Herbie Hancock in 2013. After testing the surroundings, the rapper enjoyed a spliff.
British actor Erkan Mustafa reportedly smoked up in the White House as well while there to promote then-First Lady Nancy Regan’s ‘Just Say No’ anti-drug campaign. He and his co-stars from the show ‘Grange Hill’ were all “high as kites” from doing “grass and coke in the mansion” according to reports.
Gary McLain, former Villanova Wildcat basketball player, also admitted to being “wired on cocaine” in the White House Rose Garden according to McLain himself. In 1985 his team was invited after they won the NCAA championship.
Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick recounted in a 2011 interview that she had planned to spike Richard Nixon’s tea with LSD. Under her account, the staff at the White House didn’t realize who they had invited to a tea party hosted by Tricia Nixon because they did so under her maiden name Wing. However, when she got to the mansion for the event, security turned her away saying they had checked her out and that she was a “risk”.