US nuclear lab is full of stoners

By at 11:22 am Monday, Apr 23

Noah Shachtman at Wired's "Danger Room" blog writes,
Weed_microscope I can't tell you how many times, after listening to some lame explanation about why security at the Los Alamos nuclear lab still wasn't fixed, I though to myself, "What are they, stoned?"

The answer, it turns out, is yes.  At least some of 'em are.  An Energy Department investigation, unearthed by Time, has turned up "35 cases involv[ing] drug use within the year prior to requesting a security clearance."

Link to full text, with an update from someone who appears to be Los Alamos Nuclear Lab insider. Here is another trippy-dippy post on "Danger Room" about a military powerpoint presentation featuring dolphins that shoot death rays out of their eyes: Link.

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