Not true at all. Once clean year is all you need. TRUST ME. They're not looking for boy scouts, they're just looking for honest people. Questioning applican

Not true at all. Once clean year is all you need. TRUST ME. They're not looking for boy scouts, they're just looking for honest people. Questioning applicant's soft drug use is just a great way of smoking out dishonest people (no pun intended.) If you're not honest about the little things, then you won't be honest about the big things. They are looking for threats to national security not someone who got high in college. I worked in the defense / intel world for a long time and I never knew anyone who was honest on their app who did not get their clearance. Everyone I know who lied, even a little bit eventually got caught and lost their jobs. If you ever want a higher clearance you'll have to take a polygraph and you won't beat that no matter how many tricks you read on the internet...