The cocaine recently found at the White House doesn't represent the first drug discovered there.
The Secret Service found small amounts of marijuana on the White House grounds on two separate occasions in recent years, NBC News reports.
The drug was found on both occasions by uniformed officers and reports were subsequently filed but no charges were brought because the amount of marijuana found was below the limit under Washington D.C. law at the time, Secret Service officials said, according to the report.
Kelly O'Donnell and Rebecca Shabad write for NBC News that, “The individuals were notified they could not bring the marijuana to the White House campus, the officials said.”
The report follows the agency’s discovery of a small baggie containing a white substance on the White House grounds over the July weekend later determined to be cocaine.
The Secret Service notified members of Congress about the discovery of marijuana in the White House during a classified briefing over the cocaine probe, Fox News reports.
"No one was arrested in these incidents, because the weight of the marijuana confiscated did not meet the legal threshold for federal charges or D.C. misdemeanor criminal charges, as the District of Columbia had decriminalized possession," a Secret Service spokesperson told Fox News. "The marijuana was collected by officers and destroyed."
The marijuana was found at the White House in July and September of last year, the report said.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), who was among those briefed by the Secret Service, appeared to be trying to make political hay from the revelation.
"We did not have scandals when President Trump was in office to this degree," Boebert told Fox News.
"And it just poses the question: What kind of people is Joe Biden bringing into the White House?" she added.
