After getting acquainted with the office and her new colleagues, who described the intern as “weird” and a “strange character,” it was time to go on a tour of the Capitol with staff assistant Aimee Peterson. <\/p>\n
When Peterson and her new charge reached the security checkpoint connecting the Cannon House Office Building to the Capitol, they put their purses on the X-ray belts and stepped through the metal detectors. Inside the intern’s purse, police officers spotted a small wooden box containing a little pipe — and a little something to smoke. As the police report put it, it was a “green leafy substance” and “paraphernalia.”<\/p>\n
The officers called the intern over to the side for a chat, leaving Peterson to wonder what was so intriguing about the new intern’s bag.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t know what was going on!” Peterson told [Roll Call]. “I told the cop she was our intern. He said, ‘We found something.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yep, the 27-year-old intern, just two hours after she started working for a Republican House member, got busted for pot possession. Capitol Hill police put her in handcuffs and took her to Congress’ processing facility. <\/p>\n
I just have to wonder what she was thinking that morning before heading off for her first day of work at a congressman’s office. “Yeah, I’ll show up with drugs in my purse at one of the most heavily secure buildings on earth. Who’s going to know?”<\/p>\n
Needless to say, her internship came to an abrupt halt. Fortunately, she wouldn’t have to worry about cleaning out her desk; she hadn’t been on the job long.
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\nBetter yet, Roll Call added a helpful reminder to the story:<\/p>\n
If two potheads a trend do make, then, by golly, potheads are the latest trend in interns. Five months ago, a 19-year-old intern in Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) office was arrested for marijuana possession. Unlike our latest participant with her fancy wooden box, Paul’s intern kept his leafy green substance in a “Zip-lock sandwich bag” and used a “blue glass pipe” to smoke it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Must be something about interns in Republican offices, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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