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HOW DRUGGIES CAN STAY OUT OF JAIL: JOIN THE FBI|
JULIET sAMUEL, reason - The FBI's personnel shortage has led to a
relaxation in its drug rules. Previous rules stipulated that prospective
employees must have smoked dope no more than 15 times (15 being the
magic number beyond which signifies a drug problem), and done other
drugs no more than 5 times in the past in order to be eligible. In
classic FBI fashion, these rules were being enforced to the letter,
which caused problems when responsible adults failed polygraph tests on
the grounds of being unable to remember if they got high 15 or 16 times
in college. . .
"One of the things we came to realize was that our drug policy was
largely out of step with the rest of the intelligence community and much
of the law enforcement community," said Jeffrey J. Berkin, deputy
assistant director of the FBI's security division, which implemented the
new guidelines. "We're going to focus less on a hard number and more on
a whole-person approach... The new policy just allows us a little more
flexibility than the old policy."
The new rules merely require applicants to have avoided cannabis in the
last three years and everything else in the last ten, which is a
marginally more sensible policy than the previous one:
Bruce Mirken, communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project,
which advocates looser restrictions on marijuana use, called the policy
change "a small step towards sanity" by the FBI.
"What it really does reflect is a reality that lots and lots of people
in this society have used marijuana-some of them have used it a fair
amount -- and have gone on to become capable and effective citizens,"
Mirken said. "Are we really going to stop all those folks from serving
our country?"
http://www.reason.com/blog/
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HOW DRUGGIES CAN STAY OUT OF JAIL: JOIN THE FBI|
JULIET sAMUEL, reason - The FBI's personnel shortage has led to a
relaxation in its drug rules. Previous rules stipulated that prospective
employees must have smoked dope no more than 15 times (15 being the
magic number beyond which signifies a drug problem), and done other
drugs no more than 5 times in the past in order to be eligible. In
classic FBI fashion, these rules were being enforced to the letter,
which caused problems when responsible adults failed polygraph tests on
the grounds of being unable to remember if they got high 15 or 16 times
in college. . .
"One of the things we came to realize was that our drug policy was
largely out of step with the rest of the intelligence community and much
of the law enforcement community," said Jeffrey J. Berkin, deputy
assistant director of the FBI's security division, which implemented the
new guidelines. "We're going to focus less on a hard number and more on
a whole-person approach... The new policy just allows us a little more
flexibility than the old policy."
The new rules merely require applicants to have avoided cannabis in the
last three years and everything else in the last ten, which is a
marginally more sensible policy than the previous one:
Bruce Mirken, communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project,
which advocates looser restrictions on marijuana use, called the policy
change "a small step towards sanity" by the FBI.
"What it really does reflect is a reality that lots and lots of people
in this society have used marijuana-some of them have used it a fair
amount -- and have gone on to become capable and effective citizens,"
Mirken said. "Are we really going to stop all those folks from serving
our country?"
http://www.reason.com/blog/
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