The FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They All Smoke Pot (2014)

When I was in college, I interviewed for an internship with the CIA. The 2012 interview was for a 2014 summer internship, and they told me I couldn’t smoke pot between now and then. Given how many talented coders I knew at Stanford who had smoked pot at least once in a year, that seemed insane to me.

Instead, I went to work at Apple where people practically smoked in the office.

What if we, like, made a phone that was entirely glass? That would be so fucking cool, man.

Put em all to Death, am i right!

> I don't want young people to use marijuana. It's against the law. We have a three-year ban on marijuana. I did not say that I'm going to change that ban. I said I have to grapple with the change in my workforce.

Do I think pot should be illegal because it already is illegal, and I'm appealing to an existing authority, or do I have a concrete argument as to why it should be illegal? Why should the opinion of any one man carry such weight for any reason other than the content of that man's opinion?

Making pot legal is the simplest way to solve the problem, because it turns an issue that needs to be solved into a non-issue. What are the consequences of pot legalization that are unbearable for this man?

FBI is shooting itself in the foot with these sort of policies. I can understand not wanting to hire someone smoking weed on the way to an interview, but in your spare time? What about all the law enforcement staff who abuse alcohol? Alcohol's been proven to be a more dangerous substance but Congress and the scheduling system are still opposite of the data.

They act like hiring those who occasionally partake in cannabis is somehow the equivalent of the army laxing physical requirements to enlist.