I was wondering...
I am about to take a polygraph test in a few weeks.  However, I left out a minor confession on my application about my drug history....

I said in my BI application that I have never used any drugs.  But in fact at the age of 14 I used marijuana only once (over 12 years ago); which of course isn’t a big deal.   (According to the department's requirements, using marijuana experimentally less than 15 times, more than 5 years ago is not disqualifying. )
 
Why did I not state my 1 time drug use?  I worried, maybe unnecessarily, that because my application is for a federal agency--In the future when I compete to move to an agency with a stricter drug policy: I may automatically be DQed for my 1 time use as a minor.   I probably shouldn't have hid the fact but it's too late to change now.

Anyway, know I have not done anything else that can even be minutely construed and "wrong".  But since getting the notice to appear for my polygraph, I have been getting anxious, reexamining my life history over and over and over again.  And this issue for all stupid and not so stupid reasons is just circling my head.

I want to ask any of you experts including the polygraphist, honestly, would showing up to my test and stating in my pretest that I did use pot once DQ me because it differs from my Background Investigation application?  I have nothing else to hide.

I ask including the polygraphist because I feel if they have confidence in their profession, then my honesty is something that they would appreciate, not tear up.  Or would my revelations just be taken as supposed "deception"?

I would understand how career polygraphist would hate counter measures but I have read the book TLBTLD.   Like most people who have nothing to hide, I want to be honest on my test.   But would I, if  I confessed to something that isn’t normally grounds for disqualification (like smoking pot once 14 years ago instead of 0 times like I said), because of inconsistencies setting myself up for a disaster?   

If it were, I might as well continue my denial and even use CMs if necessary.   

-wonderer