Apparently, the federal government’s continued war on marijuana is making it very difficult for FBI to go after real criminals. FBI Director James B. Comey says he is having trouble recruiting qualified programmers to deal with cybercrime because of the governments strict anti-marijuana rule:
Congress has authorized the FBI to add 2,000 personnel to its rolls this year, and many of those new recruits will be assigned to tackle cyber crimes, a growing priority for the agency. And that’s a problem, Mr. Comey told the White Collar Crime Institute, an annual conference held at the New York City Bar Association in Manhattan. A lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also fond of marijuana.
“I have to hire a great work force to compete with those cyber criminals and some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way to the interview,” Mr. Comey said.
The issue has gotten so bad Comey is thinking about making the agency’s restriction a bit less draconian. Currently, you can’t apply if you smoked pot less than three years ago.
Supposedly, the reason we are spending billions of dollars locking people in cages for consuming this plant is that it’s so horrible for a person, it is worth taking away that person’s freedoms just to stop them from using it.
Yet here is one of America’s top law enforcement officials basically acknowledging that you can use marijuana and still be a very successful and productive member of society. In fact he admits his problem is there are so many productive cannabis consumers he has trouble finding many successful tech workers who don’t occasionally use it.
The war on marijuana is still being waged for one reason and one reason only. The prison system is being run by private corporations making big profits. You gotta fill those cells at 50k per inmate per year. That’s called building your customer base. And repeat customers, as any good businessman will tell you, is the key to success.
Maybe he should talk to the big boss. He used to toke. Did cocaine too.
We are ruled by morons.
Yep, and if you live in a state where pot is legal (medical or recreational) and you avail yourself, you won’t be granted federal security clearance.