AP: FBI May Relax Drug Use Hiring Policy. Unless you’re applying to be a special agent, it may soon be OK to have smoked some marijuana in your past and still get a job at the FBI. They probably have lost a lot of good people in the past who couldn’t help being habitual truth-tellers. Now if only the US military will figure out that kicking out 26 Arab and Farsi gay linguists between 1998 and 2004 was a bad idea.