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The Secret Service will be relaxing the rules for marijuana users to an extent in the hopes that it will increase their pool of candidates. It's becoming impossible for the agency to track down people who have not used due to the wide acceptance and acknowledged medical benefits for things like addiction, stress and depression.
Meanwhile, Jeff Sessions is looking to crack down on medical providers. Citing things such as: psychosis, respiratory issues, IQ loss and that it has no accepted medical use in the united states.
[Credit for the secret service article and scribd source to takyon]
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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday June 15 2017, @02:21PM
That is almost as deficient thinking on their part then as the "drugs is bad". If they now think that it's only young people that smoke and that responsible adults don't engage in that kinda behavior. Also considering that the average age of motherhood just keeps going up, people are taking longer and longer to get a degree (or two) and start working and/or starting their family this might just be more wishful thinking then on their part.
The stats for age and marijuana-usage seem to be about the same when looking at different sources, but it seems that this "college-only" thing is not true. While the 18-29 year old seem to make up the largest single group there seems to be as many smokers in the 30-64 year group (yes that is two groups added together). Gallup gives some general overall data, Headset gives data for dispensaries -- but here we have that the general customer in the 25-29 group is the single largest but the group of 30-39 would be even larger, or that 21-29 years of age is just a large (or about) a group as 30-44 year old. The overall average seems to be 37, but then average here might be a really shit indicator, the mode or median might have been better or at least interesting to see.
I had to look it up but it appears they don't hire anybody above the age of 37 for the "action" positions at the Secret Service (40 for military veterans), the other more clerical positions doesn't have any upper age requirement.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/194195/adults-say-smoke-marijuana.aspx [gallup.com]
http://headset.io/blog/what-does-the-average-cannabis-consumer-look-like [headset.io]
https://www.secretservice.gov/join/careers/ [secretservice.gov]