Now that's what we call a joint task force: Uncle Sam chills out, relaxes recruitment rules on drugs
Black Hat America's crime-fighters, desperate to recruit white-hat hackers to collar spies and cyber-crooks, have been quietly and slightly relaxing the ban on hiring anyone who has used illegal drugs.
Generally speaking, dabbling in any kind of substance abuse will rule you out of the running for a job at the NSA, Homeland Security, the FBI, and so forth.
It should, therefore, be no surprise that the Feds have been unable to recruit talented hacker folks, due to their past experimentation with chemicals.
What with marijuana now legal in various US states, including California, and it being 2019 and all, and recruitment of infosec bods is still somewhat of a struggle, it appears Uncle Sam is easing up.
So, if you haven't done anything bonkers, like injected mephedrone into your eyeballs over breakfast, and can pass, and continue to pass, a drug test, and you have the infosec skillz needed, Uncle Sam may well want you... to apply, at least.