FBI mulling recruitment of 'hackers on cannabis' to battle cybercrime

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Despite the fact that FBI current policy prohibits anyone working for it who has used cannabis in the past three years, the organization's director James Comey has acknowledged that this is complicating its efforts to recruit hacking experts, according to The Wall Street Journal.

"I have to hire a great workforce to compete with those cybercriminals, and some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way to the interview," he said at the White Collar Crime Institute's annual meeting.