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...for smoking weed? What in the hell does weed have to do with security? Outside of some archaic argument like “it’s always been a requirement”, why is smoking
by nscalf 7y ago
...for smoking weed? What in the hell does weed have to do with security? Outside of some archaic argument like “it’s always been a requirement”, why is smoking weed a factor in security clearance?
Can anyone give me a logical argument for this?
- aidenn0 7y agoBack when smoking weed was more heavily stigmatized (and enforced with jail time), a drug habit was seen as handy blackmail material. That does make doing it publicly something that is less of a concern though; nobody can blackmail Musk for smoking weed because everyone knows he's done it.
- Qwertystop 7y agoPresumably, because it's (technically) breaking federal law, and someone who breaks federal law probably shouldn't have a federally-granted security clearance.
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- fargle 7y agoIf you ever had a clearance, it isn't about sense. It's about "RULES". Thing A and thing A' are moral equivalents. Thing A is a federal crime (we don't care why or if it's wrong). Thing A' is a not a crime. You do thing A, a long time in the past. You get a couple strikes. Probably still get clearance. You demonstrate you don't understand difference between thing A and thing A' (even if moral equivalents) which implies you don't understand "RULES" or that you have independent thought (worse). No clearance for you.
- Qwertystop 7y agoI'm not sure the "independent thought" bit is justified; if you can't distinguish between illegal and legal things, or can't manage to not do illegal things that are fairly easy not to do, it seems reasonable to question whether you can be trusted to keep (information requiring a clearance) secure.