RICH-KID DRUGGIES WILL GET INTO COLLEGE

I respond to the Daily Mail's Jan. 2 editorial, "College: Those who sell
drugs should not get federal aid."

For simple cannabis possession, and not limited to "dealers," the ban most
certainly discriminates against poor people, because rich kids don't seek
loans and grants.

It discriminates by offering grant privileges to murderers, rapists and
violent criminals, yet punishes a simple cannabis infraction.

It discriminates against millions of responsible cannabis users who are
tired of the government deceit directed toward them.

Discrimination further allows the law to label as dealers people who simply
are not, so to offer forfeiture of assets to police departments, etc.

The editorial staff, comfortable with allowing grants to violent murderers
and rapists, but not cannabis consumers, should reconsider its stance.

The war on some plants and drugs is more like a freak show. The major
accomplishment is a bigger Al Capone known as Osama bin Laden, financed by
our own ignorance.

Stanley D. White, Dillon, Colo.