Here's my story:govnor wrote:You are absolutely right man. When I was in my early 20's at a club partying and someone says "hey man, you want a key bump!" Did it ever cross my mind that I might want to do something in law enforcement? No. I mean, it was really stupid, period, and I'll add...the worst hangover I've ever had. I hated it. Drugs hold a lot more implications than people realize.Kids need to hear stories like these to keep them on the straight and narrow. I knew a lot of good soldiers who never got past Secret clearances due to stuff like this and they never got promoted past E5/O5 as a result.
Some financial and government sector jobs will also DQ on stuff like this.
I applied to the FBI circa 1992. I was truthful, and received a polite letter back that I was ineligible due to my "admitted personal use of illegal drugs".
My "admitted drug use" was that on fewer than a dozen occasions, I had smoked marijuana; that I had never bought nor sold marijuana; that my only "possession" of "illegal drugs" when someone passed me a joint.
Funny thing is, the SF-85 where I disclosed that for the FBI application was copied exactly from my BOP SF-85, which was copied exactly from my U.S.Army SF-85.
So to sum up: The U.S. Army granted me a Top Secret/Nuclear Surety clearance in 1986, when I told them I had toked a few times as a high school senior and college freshman, from 1981-82.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons hired me into a Law Enforcement/Sensitive job in 1991 when I told them exactly the same thing.
My fellow DoJ component, the FBI, declared me ineligible based on exactly the same information. At the time, my TS background investigation for the Army was still current. I could handle Top Secret nuclear launch codes, but I couldn't investigate bank embezzlers.
Go figure.
