FBI Director James B. Comey said Monday that if the FBI hopes to continue to keep pace with cyber criminals, the organization may have to loosen up its no-tolerance policy for hiring those who like to smoke 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.
Apt. 11d 
I once interviewed fairly seriously for an FBI contract position. At the time (around years ago), they were OK with several uses of marijuana, but no more than that.
The FBI is a seriously buttoned up outfit.
As a PSA, being seriously pregnant while taking a polygraph may yield some odd results. I spent nearly 4 hours being polygraphed the first time (while about 5 or 6 months pregnant). I had much better results the second time, which was postpartum. The polygraph looks exactly like the one from Meet the Parents, by the way–it did not inspire confidence.
Interestingly, I was eventually told that when you work for the FBI, you aren’t supposed to say so, and you aren’t supposed to wear your badge outside the building. “I work for the Justice Department” is as detailed as you’re supposed to get, which is similar to what CIA people are supposed to say (“I work for the State Department”).
(It would have been interesting to work for the FBI, but by the time my application started going someplace, I had two little kids and it really wasn’t feasible anymore. Just being in the application process was a pain, though–I had to keep reporting all of my foreign contacts, and I had a fair number.)
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