> Having smoked or taken other illicit drugs in the recent, or not so recent, past is a major source of stress for people applying for clearance. If you have b

> Having smoked or taken other illicit drugs in the recent, or not so recent, past is a major source of stress for people applying for clearance. If you have broken the law in the past, the clearance processes mostly seem to care that a) you acknowledge it and have stopped b) you are upfront about it, and it can't be used as leverage against you. If you're currently routinely breaking the law, yes, it's going to be hard to get clearance. That seems pretty reasonable to me.