u/notConflict

Hello all! I (21M) am currently a college student majoring in communications (public relations emphasis), but have recently decided to make a life change and follow an interest of mine and go for becoming a state police officer. I’m in my 3rd year of university, but I have hated every semester I’ve completed. I only went to college to appease my parents. I wish I had more of a backbone when I was younger and didn’t go this route, but here we are.

I’ve come to the conclusion after many weeks of thought that any job I get within my field of study will not bring me and sense of fulfillment. I will live every work day in either regret or simply just being unhappy with what I’m doing. With that in mind, I’ve done a good bit of research regarding the process to become a police officer.

My main question here is, will past drug use cause me to be DQ? I do not intended to lie on my forms or during the poly, as that really isn’t the correct approach. I smoked marijuana twice my senior year of high school. Regretfully. It was a thing 17 year old me did to attempt to look cool and make more friends.

I really hope something like that wouldn’t really cause me to be out of the pool for a job I’d really love to have a spot in.

Edit: not in a weed legal state.