Senate Votes to Let People Who’ve Used Marijuana Work at Intelligence Agencies

Re:Senate Votes to Let People Who’ve Used Marijuana Work at ... by yieldcrv on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:51PM (#36959664)

“your stoner friends”, lol, where are people like you still found?

In California, and the entire West Coast, recreational use of marijuana is as normal as alcohol use.

People that use substances are different than those that abuse substances, and yet you are conflating the two.

“Senate lets people that have had a drink before work at Intelligence agencies” “my alcoholic friends working as spooks would be a threat to national security”

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Re:Senate Votes to Let People Who’ve Used Marijuana Work at ... by escapedmoose on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:00PM (#36959814)

While I agree with your general point, recall that DC is on the East Coast, and that there recreational marijuana use isn’t nearly so culturally accepted as it is on the West.

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Re:Senate Votes to Let People Who’ve Used Marijuana Work at ... by dhanna on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:10PM (#36959976)

That’s funny because weed shops in DC are a dime a dozen.

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Re:Senate Votes to Let People Who’ve Used Marijuana Work at ... by escapedmoose on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @09:56PM (#36966010)

But are likely less prominent in the 2-hour-commute radius from which many federal workers are driving.

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Re:Senate Votes to Let People Who’ve Used Marijuana Work at ... by yieldcrv on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:13PM (#36960025)

consensus on the floor was pretty much unanimous this year, while the committee vote was party line, it got out and everyone else is like “yeah we agree”

“As more states legalize cannabis, it becomes less and less tenable to deny security clearances to those who have used it,” Wyden said in remarks inserted into the report. “The amendment…will help the Intelligence Community recruit the qualified personnel needed to protect the country.”

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Re:Senate Votes to Let People Who’ve Used Marijuana Work at ... by mrguyorama on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @03:11PM (#36961008)

There's a difference between a person who uses weed for fun, and a "stoner" which is closer to a functioning addict. A person who takes a toke every other night "to calm down" probably isn't a stoner. The guy who has to puff before work because he doesn't function otherwise is a stoner.

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