Every year, scores of aspiring government employees have their applications for security clearances denied because they smoke weed recreationally. Every D.C. resident has a government or government-adjacent friend who won’t touch a poppy seed bagel lest they be subject to a randomized drug test. It’s a sacrifice plenty of federal workers are willing to make so they can serve the public, but according to a Monday report from The Economist, as the young engineers of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) gleefully fired federal employees en masse, they may have been celebrating by lighting up in government buildings.
According to The Economist, a cleaning crew that entered the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) — which DOGE and the Trump administration attempted to shut down by force earlier this year — found a stash of what appears to be low-quality weed that had apparently been thrown out by young DOGE staffers. The Economist obtained a photo of it.
As previously reported by Rolling Stone, the gutting of USIP was led by 28-year-old college dropout and Silicon Valley devotee Nate Cavanaugh, who was tasked with taking over the institute, and attempting to transfer its assets — including its offices — to the General Services Administration, potentially to use them as new headquarters.
Last week, a bombshell report from The New York Times suggested that, not unlike his DOGE underlings, Elon Musk is known to enjoy a fair bit of recreational drug use. According to the Times, Musk used ketamine so frequently during the 2024 campaign, that he complained to individuals in his orbit that it was causing issues with his bladder. He also reportedly used ecstasy and mushrooms.
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