Apparently, the FBI is under the strange belief that dope smoking is a crime and if people are users, they can't work for the Feds. While this is fair enough, it does mean that you cannot hire hackers or anyone else who has the occasional smoke – which is most people in the US technology field.

According to the New York Daily News, this means that the FBI can't hire hackers desperately needed to fight real crime because they would have to arrest them after they fail their first drugs test.

So while the Russians are cheerfully turning over US systems , the FBI can't even hire a teenager who can hack an iPhone because of its 1950s style drugs policy.

It’s not as if one can clean up and apply. Any hacker would have to have been free of cannabis use for a full three years before they could get behind the screens of any FBI computers.

It seems that with marijuana legalised in eight states and the District of Columbia and medical marijuana legal in 30 states plus D.C., it seems that the FBI has not caught up. Either that or it is worried about blowing its pizza and pringles budget.