Weed isn’t a scandal – weed is pretty normal.
The major scandal that I can remember took place at the Atlanta Public Library in around 2001–2002. The library board and the library director decided that there were “too many old white women” who worked at the Main Library downtown, and came up with a scheme to move the old white women out to some of the other branches, and move a number of black men and women into the white womens’ old jobs.
The women sued the Fulton County, and won something like $20 million in damages. The Library Director was fired for her stupidity, and the County pretty much emasculated the board for doing something so colossally dumb.
Now THAT was a good scandal.