FBI Changes Rules on Hiring Past Drug Users

It's got to be a stressful process anyway, without trying to remember the exact number of times you smoked or figure out whether a joint or an evening of smoking counts as one use.

Under the new rules, you still can't be a current or recent drug user, but more frequent drug use in the past does not automatically mean they will send you packing.

Something I was surprised to read in the Post article is that the DEA will consider hiring people who have experimented with marijuana. You have to wonder how sincerely federal agencies believe their own rhetoric in light of these hiring policies... do they see applicants who admit to past drug use as the miraculous few who have come through the experience unscathed?

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