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I mean, that's not the CIA's choice, is it? Cannabis is, for now at least, still a federally prescribed substance. I don't blame them for not wanting employees that break the law.

I bet as soon as the law is changed they'd welcome you with open arms.

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Totally agree, we wouldn't want to put our illegal shadow government in the position of having to break the law.

At least our Cool Big Brother the FBI lets us smoke 24 joints.

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/fbi-clarifies-that-using-mar...

Or smoked at 24 occasions. The formulation is unclear.

What if you take 24 hits from the same joint but you're high and forget you're smoking a joint and it keeps going out? Is that the same session?

You got too stoned to remember you're smoking a joint, but remembered you took 24 hits?

They'd probably tell you to get a job at the IRS.

That's why I keep an abacus on hand when smoking my joints.

Yeah, and it's even worse because FBI, NSA, etc. lose thousands of potential recruits every year because of the weed ban.

If you smoke enough you are qualified for politics.

Weed is More popular with their staff. Politicians tend to prefer blow.

Of course it’s the CIA’s choice. There is no law saying that the CIA can’t hire someone who has broken the law. Are jaywalkers banned from being hired by the CIA too? It’s their choice to determine their self-defeating hiring requirements.

I don’t think it is their choice, but putting my opinion out there just so they know there’s a potential pool of applicants if this is dealt with.

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