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Call your Congress member now, to stop Rep. Souder's ongoing efforts to bar financial aid even for marijuana possession.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

For years, students with convictions for drug convictions as minor as possessing marijuana would have their federal financial aid stripped away as a result. Wonderfully, currently proposed legislation will take a huge bite out of that sting by limiting financial aid deprivation to those with drug sales convictions during the time they receive financial aid, even though hopefully even that penalty will ultimately go away.  However, Indiana Rep. Mark Souder is expected today to introduce on the House floor an amendment to strike the provision that shields mere drug possession from loss of student financial aid.  Before you do anything else, please call (or else e-mail) your Congressmember to oppose any effort to weaken efforts to shield students from financial aid loss for drug convictions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on September 17, 2009 (boomark / email).