NCSU Student Who Sponsored Drug Penalty Opposition Matthew Potter is a junior in political science and a student senator at N.C. State University. He is also president of the NCSU chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Last week, the NCSU student senate passed a resolution Potter introduced that calls on North Carolina's congressional delegation to amend the Higher Education Act. Tell me about this bill. It calls upon Congress to repeal the drug penalty from the Higher Education Act. The Higher Education Act regulates all federal funding for education, such as work study programs, loans and grants. The drug penalty was introduced in 1998, and it basically says that anyone who has any drug conviction becomes ineligible for federal financial aid, at least for a certain period of time. [continues 527 words]
Matthew Potter is a junior in political science and a student senator at N.C. State University. He is also president of the NCSU chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Last week, the NCSU student senate passed a resolution Potter introduced that calls on North Carolina's congressional delegation to amend the Higher Education Act. [question] Tell me about this bill. It calls upon Congress to repeal the drug penalty from the Higher Education Act. The Higher Education Act regulates all federal funding for education, such as work study programs, loans and grants. The drug penalty was introduced in 1998, and it basically says that anyone who has any drug conviction becomes ineligible for federal financial aid, at least for a certain period of time. [continues 535 words]
Why did the Peruvian military shoot down a plane full of innocent people -- and why was the CIA involved? The place where Colombia, Peru and Ecuador come together is the greatest cocaine-trafficking air corridor in the world. Small aircraft regularly fly coca paste across the Andes Mountains from Peru. That's why a CIA plane, contracted to do intelligence as part of a drug interdiction operation with the Peruvian government, suspected on Friday that a small Cessna carrying a family of Baptist missionaries was running drugs. [continues 2268 words]
A Maine Sheriff Wants The Legislature To Let Authorities Dole Out Confiscated Pot To People Who Need Medicinal Marijuana. What if law enforcement agencies started giving away marijuana confiscated in drug busts to the sick? That's an idea the Maine Legislature is pondering, and it's backed by a sheriff who's fed up with the barriers to getting medicinal marijuana to those who need it. Voters in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Maine, Oregon and Washington have legalized medicinal marijuana for the chronically ill. The Maine initiative, approved by voters in November, would allow patients to legally grow up to six plants for their own use. But even if the state approves it, those patients would still be breaking federal laws, and there'd no way for those who couldn't or didn't want to grow their own pot to get it legally. [continues 1298 words]
