Pubdate: Wed, 04 Oct 2006
Source: State Hornet, The (CA State, Sacramento, Edu)
Copyright: 2006 State Hornet
Contact:  http://www.statehornet.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1400
Author: Malcolm Kyle
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/youth.htm (Youth)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/hea.htm (Higher Education Act)
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n1298/a07.html?267324

WAR ON DRUGS SEEMS MORE LIKE A WAR ON AMERICAN VALUES

Re: Students convicted of drug offenses should not get aid

In a recent article, Nicki Croly lent support for federal law which 
suspends federal student aid eligibility for any student convicted of 
possessing or selling illegal drugs.

Croly made no mention of the fact that murderers and rapists do not 
suffer the same fate.

Anyway for most of us it's no longer in contention, our drug policies 
have turned out to be a complete flop. Drugs are more affordable than 
ever and can be acquired even in our prisons and schools. It's not a 
war on drugs.  It's a war on our own people and everything we hold 
dear, like the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Land of the free! ... who are we kidding? This failed policy has 
turned us into one of the most incarcerated nations on Earth.

Why in Gods name, decade on decade, do we keep wasting billions of 
dollars on this moronathon? Surely most of us by now have had enough 
of this farce.

- -Malcolm Kyle
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