Eleven House pages dismissed over marijuana allegations

Wednesday, May 1, 2002- 15:52 PDT

WASHINGTON (AP)- Eleven teen-age House pages have been dismissed from the program after at least one of them brought marijuana to their Capitol Hill dormitory, congressional sources said Wednesday.

None of those involved were identified.

The incident, first reported Wednesday by the online version of the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, occurred after a female page who has family in the Washington, D.C., invited fellow pages to the residence, where marijuana was used and the teen-agers were unsupervised.

That page later brought drugs to the dormitory and was turned in to authorities by someone else, said the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity. It was unclear if any other disciplinary action would be taken.

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