text: An economic adviser to Sen. Barbara Boxer has resigned after being arrested Tuesday for attempting to bring marijuana into the Hart Senate Office Building. Capitol Police stopped Marcus M. Stanley Tuesday... 
   
   Barbara Boxer aide caught carrying dope into Senate office building 
   
   Barbara Boxer aide caught carrying dope into Senate office building 
   
   An economic adviser to Sen. Barbara Boxer has resigned after being arrested Tuesday for attempting to bring marijuana into the Hart Senate Office Building. 
   
   Capitol Police stopped Marcus M. Stanley Tuesday morning when he allegedly tried to "remove and conceal" a leafy green substance from his pocket as he was going through security at the Hart Office Building, say U.S. Capitol Police. The police later id'd the leafy green as the sticky green. 
   
   Stanley, who has worked for Boxer since 2009 and earned a six-figure salary, quickly resigned. 
   
   "Marcus Stanley is no longer with this office. He submitted his resignation and Senator Boxer accepted it because his actions yesterday were wrong and unacceptable," said Boxer spokesman Zachary Coile. 
   
   Or, as the snarks at Wonkette snarked: "He has since resigned his job and will move on to a life of sitting at home reading dumb pot jokes about himself in the comments on this Politico article." 
   
   Indeed. Or he could read this this homegrown one: The resignation saves Stanley from having to dust off this classic caught-with-dope excuse: "But Senator, I was just holding it for a friend in another Senate office." 
   
   And for those of you wondering, Boxer opposes Proposition 19 in California, which would legalize and tax cannabis in the Golden State. So does her GOP rival Carly Fiorina. 
   
   Also, to repeat a poll of the day: CNN has the Senate race between Boxer and GOPer Carly Fiorina at 48-44 percent Boxer, a statistical dead heat given the margin of error. 
   
   Posted By: Joe Garofoli (Email, Twitter, Facebook) | ||||| A senior aide for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) was arrested Tuesday for attempting to bring marijuana into the Hart Senate Office Building, according to U.S. Capitol Police reports. 
   
   Marcus Stanley, who served as a senior economic adviser and at one time worked on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee — chaired by Boxer — was stopped by a police officer Tuesday morning when he allegedly tried to “remove and conceal” a leafy green substance from his pocket during a security screening at the Constitution Avenue door of the Hart building around noon, according to a Capitol Police report. 
   
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   Police confiscated the substance, which later tested positive for marijuana, and Stanley quickly resigned. 
   
   “Marcus Stanley is no longer with this office,” Boxer spokesman Zachary Coile told POLITICO. “He submitted his resignation, and Sen. Boxer accepted it because his actions yesterday were wrong and unacceptable.” 
   
   Stanley has worked on Capitol Hill since 2007, according to financial disclosure records from Legistorm, and draws a six-figure salary. He has also worked for the Joint Economic Committee. 
   
   Marijuana possession has been an ongoing issue on the Capitol grounds, especially since the Capitol Visitor Center opened with additional screening facilities. In the past year and a half, more than a dozen people have been stopped for bringing marijuana into the Capitol complex, along with other drugs, including at least one instance involving cocaine, according to police records. 
   
   The legalization of marijuana is a hot issue in Boxer’s senatorial race as well as other California elections. California Democrats have been largely divided over Proposition 19, a ballot question that would legalize marijuana and allow the government to impose taxes on pot. Boxer and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) have been opposed to the measure. 
   
   This is not the first time a member of Boxer’s senior staff has been arrested. Senior policy adviser Jeffrey Rosato, who also worked on the EPW committee, was fired in 2008 after he was arrested and charged with the receipt and distribution of child pornography. 
   
   Stanley is the fourth Hill aide to be arrested by Capitol Police this year, according to an analysis by POLITICO.
target: – Oops. An economics adviser to Barbara Boxer got caught trying to sneak some pot into a DC Senate office building and promptly resigned. His arrest—he tried to "remove and conceal" the marijuana while going through security—comes just ahead of California's proposition to legalize the stuff. Boxer, incidentally, opposes that, as does rival Carly Fiorina, notes the San Francisco Chronicle. Boxer's office terse statement: "Marcus Stanley is no longer with this office. He submitted his resignation and Senator Boxer accepted it because his actions yesterday were wrong and unacceptable." And in a weird footnote to the story, Politico notes that no fewer than a dozen people have been arrested for trying to sneak drugs into the Capitol complex in the past year and a half. Thank additional screening facilities for that.