Anyone work for the DOD as an interviewer for Secret Security Clearances?

Ok, so I am seriously thinking about joining the Army with Special Forces on my contract and for them I think you have to get a Secret Security Clearance. The problem is that I have done drugs in the past. When I was 14. When I apply for the Army It will be 7 years sense I did drugs. I smoked weed for about a year and did Extacy ONCE and Mushrooms ONCE.
Recruiters are telling me that I can either lie about my drug use because I never got caught by Law Enforcement for it or tell the truth and hope the DOD will give me a clearance. I do not want to lie, but I want to know from DOD if I will have a chance. Maybe if I show them that I am a lot more mature than back then or if I get into some community service that shows i am more responsible?
Let me know if I have a Chance at getting a Secret Security Clearance?

You're right, you can't branch Special Forces unless you clear for Secret. Which you do by disclosing your drug history. I am not up to the minute on the DOD standard, but the history you disclosed would not keep you out of the FBI (and they, too, require Special Agents to be cleared for secret).

Talk to your recruiter. Keep in mind that your contract does not get you into the Special Forces: it gets you into the SFAS. Before that, however, your MOS is 11Bravo.

Infantry. Poor bloody infantry. If you wash out of the 18-Xray program, you are on the short list to deploy to Iraq AS A REPLACEMENT. Not the place you want to be.

Don't worry about the drugs, though. You did not do cocaine or heroin or acid, each of which is an absolute disqualifier for any security clearance. In fact, with a history of hard drugs, you would have a hard time enlisting at all, though with the Army's current problem making quota, cokeheads might be getting through.

One more thing to keep in mind: everyone with an 18X MOS has been stop-lossed for three years now. So plan on making a career of the Army if you branch SF, 'cos they don't plan on letting you take off the suit anytime soon.

I did $500 a week cocaine and a few joynts a day in the 80s. I received my NSA TOP SECRET clearance in 1995 and my Top Secret clearance in 1966 for the Hague and NATO.

I didn't lie about such use and have been clean since 1981.

Does that answer your question?