Defense Secretary says Pentagon should relax when it comes to hiring marijuana users
At TechCrunch’s Disrupt SF event on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said the military should be more flexible about hiring people who’ve previously used marijuana or other federally illegal drugs.
As first reported by Marijuana.com, Carter was responding to a hypothetical question about whether he’d be able or willing to hire someone who “[partook] in some goodies” at Burning Man in the interest of hiring qualified engineers.
While Carter qualified that “it depends what the goodies are,” he continued, “It’s a very good question and we are changing that, in recognition of the fact that times change and generations change and by the way, laws change as respect to marijuana.”
Carter then indicated that in recognition of changing times, as a necessity the Pentagon needed to be more flexible when it came to hiring former marijuana users.
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