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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Yep. I almost went fed a few years ago and got the skinny on the drug stuff from a very high staffer. At that point, the FBI was okay with applicants who had gotten baked as long as: (1) it was a while back and not like a year or so before applying; (2) you had smoked a doob maybe 10-15 times but weren't like a Spicoli or nothing (NTTAWWT). You had to have escaped the 80's, though, without having driven down that White Line Highway (though I had some tell me 2 or 3 times wouldn't disqualify you). At about this time, they were also raising the max age for joining from 33 to 35. I'm still thinking about doing it; just waiting for the standards to change so that there is no discrimination among applicants just by reason of me being a 40 year old former 80's Crack Ho.
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The CIA, ttbomkiab, traditionally has been even more stringent in their anti-drug criteria, although otoh, I know someone, whom I strongly suspect of being or having been in the CIA (I know as a fact that she/he went through the application process), who did a boatload of drugs in the 80s. Must have lied like Clinton.
I also know that one of that person's partners in crime got dinged by the FBI for prior drug use.
