DRUG POLICY UNFAIRLY PUNISHES OFFENDERS

If students ("Students With Drug Offenses Lose Financial Aid,"
Wednesday) are convicted of murder or rape, they'd still be eligible
for financial aid in school; this creates another facet of the Higher
Education Act and aids policy discrimination that doesn't get
mentioned by government supporters. Even if not convicted of a felony,
but a misdemeanor, and charged for possessing the God-given plant
cannabis (not a drug), one could lose their financial aid.

Would students have lost financial aid if caught with alcohol? This
provision of the Higher Education Act is bad policy that should be
amended or terminated.

Stan White