It also appears the problem persists when raising or lowering my INT by 2. I did this via Mentats and Moonshine putting my INT at 1 and 5 both times nothing work, however I reloaded my save, killed a few things took intensive training, increased my INT to 4 and the option became available...I'm going to try and temporarily raise it by 1...
EDIT: After messing around with my stats I finally managed to get my INT to 4 with a -1 / +2 boost. STILL doesn't work. This complete destroys my character build so I guess I'll just start over...though I love New Vegas I swear this game frustrates me to no end sometimes.