POLICY SLAMS POT USERS; RAPISTS, MURDERERS OK

Had Chris Lippke ("Financial aid in danger for those with drug
convictions," Sept. 7) been convicted of murder or rape, he'd still
be eligible for financial aid in school, creating another facet of
the aid policy discrimination that doesn't get mentioned by
government supporters.

And Lippke wasn't even convicted of a felony, it was a misdemeanor;
and then he was charged for possessing a God-given plant, not a drug.
Would he have lost financial aid if caught with alcohol?

This provision of the Higher Education Act is bad policy and bad law
should be amended or terminated.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.