HEA LAW SHOULD BE AMENDED

Dear Editor,

"No financial aid for drug offenders" [Nov. 9], reveals the big
picture for citizens to see, since the government's war on drugs
primarily targets cannabis users. Do students lose financial aid if
caught with alcohol? Focusing on the plant cannabis has allowed
America's meth problem to get out of control. Further discrimination
exists because students convicted of murder or rape, are still
eligible for financial aid in school. Government's attempts to
persecute, prohibit and exterminate cannabis (kaneh bosm/marijuana)
is ludicrous to begin with since Christ God Our Father indicates that
He created the seed-bearing plants, saying they are all good, on
literally the first page (see Genesis 1:11-12 and 29-30). The only
biblical restriction placed on cannabis is the it is to be accepted
with thankfulness (see 1 Timothy 4:1-5). This provision of the Higher
Education Act is bad law and should be amended or terminated.

Truthfully,

Stan White