Marijuana and college students - please call your Congressman
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Marijuana and college students - please call your Congressman
The House of Representatives is voting on a bill that would restore financial aid to students with drug convictions. Call Congress TODAY!
1) MAKE THE CALL: Dial the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. When the operator answers, give them your home address and ask to be connected with your representative's office.
2) SPEAK YOUR MIND: When the receptionist in your representative's office answers the phone, politely say something like: "My name is [NAME] and I live in [CITY]. When the House revises the Higher Education Act soon, I hope that my representative will make sure to get rid of the harmful law that takes away financial aid from college students with drug convictions. This law causes more, not less, drug abuse by blocking access to education." (If you call after 5pm EST, you may have to leave a voice message.)
3) SPREAD THE WORD: Click "Reply To Poster", select all the text and HTML in the window that opens and copy it. Then open a new bulletin, paste the text in, and post.
4) PITCH IN: Campaigns are expensive! Please make a donation.
Background:
Since the year 2000, more than 200,000 students have lost college aid just because they have drug convictions. Congress is set to reconsider this harmful and unfair penalty very soon, and Students for Sensible Drug Policy needs your help to convince legislators to repeal it.
In the next few days the Higher Education Act reauthorization will be introduced in the House Education & Labor Committee, and is expected to move to the House floor shortly thereafter. Because of this, we need you to call your U.S. House representative today, and ask him or her to repeal the ban on financial aid for students with drug convictions. Just follow the steps above. It's that easy.
Since the Senate passed HEA reauthorization without repealing the Aid Elimination Penalty, it is imperative that constituents send a strong message to members of the House that denying financial aid for college does nothing to deter drug use in schools, and only causes more drug abuse.
And if you have not yet sent a letter to your member of Congress about this issue, please do so today by visiting
http://www.SchoolsNotPrisons.com/help/
Repealing the HEA Aid Elimination Penalty is supported by a coalition of over 500 groups, including the leading organizations in education, treatment, financial aid, civil liberties, civil rights, religion, and law. And just last week the New York Times editorialized in favor of repealing this penalty (story posted below).
Please do your part to restore financial aid eligibility to thousands of students with drug convictions by calling your U.S. House representative today.
Many thanks for your support,
Tom Angell
Government Relations Director
Students for Sensible Drug Policy
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/opinion/02fri4.html
Angela Goodhope
Field Director
Citizens for Responsible Crime Policy
http://www.responsiblecrimepolicy.org
(406) 493-0425
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The House of Representatives is voting on a bill that would restore financial aid to students with drug convictions. Call Congress TODAY!
1) MAKE THE CALL: Dial the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. When the operator answers, give them your home address and ask to be connected with your representative's office.
2) SPEAK YOUR MIND: When the receptionist in your representative's office answers the phone, politely say something like: "My name is [NAME] and I live in [CITY]. When the House revises the Higher Education Act soon, I hope that my representative will make sure to get rid of the harmful law that takes away financial aid from college students with drug convictions. This law causes more, not less, drug abuse by blocking access to education." (If you call after 5pm EST, you may have to leave a voice message.)
3) SPREAD THE WORD: Click "Reply To Poster", select all the text and HTML in the window that opens and copy it. Then open a new bulletin, paste the text in, and post.
4) PITCH IN: Campaigns are expensive! Please make a donation.
Background:
Since the year 2000, more than 200,000 students have lost college aid just because they have drug convictions. Congress is set to reconsider this harmful and unfair penalty very soon, and Students for Sensible Drug Policy needs your help to convince legislators to repeal it.
In the next few days the Higher Education Act reauthorization will be introduced in the House Education & Labor Committee, and is expected to move to the House floor shortly thereafter. Because of this, we need you to call your U.S. House representative today, and ask him or her to repeal the ban on financial aid for students with drug convictions. Just follow the steps above. It's that easy.
Since the Senate passed HEA reauthorization without repealing the Aid Elimination Penalty, it is imperative that constituents send a strong message to members of the House that denying financial aid for college does nothing to deter drug use in schools, and only causes more drug abuse.
And if you have not yet sent a letter to your member of Congress about this issue, please do so today by visiting
http://www.SchoolsNotPrisons.com/help/
Repealing the HEA Aid Elimination Penalty is supported by a coalition of over 500 groups, including the leading organizations in education, treatment, financial aid, civil liberties, civil rights, religion, and law. And just last week the New York Times editorialized in favor of repealing this penalty (story posted below).
Please do your part to restore financial aid eligibility to thousands of students with drug convictions by calling your U.S. House representative today.
Many thanks for your support,
Tom Angell
Government Relations Director
Students for Sensible Drug Policy
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/opinion/02fri4.html
Angela Goodhope
Field Director
Citizens for Responsible Crime Policy
http://www.responsiblecrimepolicy.org
(406) 493-0425
8:27 AM - 0 Com
all insanity:
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god is love
love is light
a derivitive of nature.
nature is god
god is love
love is light
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Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
Drink and drive, we'll still pay for you to go to school. Smoke some weed, sit on your couch, pig out, no college for you!
drinking is legal. drinking and driving is a crime. the line would have to be drawn somewhere. or maybe they should not allow money for anyone with a criminal record. do you know what the law states?
how about coke? or crack? or heroin? or meth? unfortunately for you, weed is still in the same category of illegal drugs.
but thats just me.......
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
so doing illegal activies in his free time is ok? bout about leaving a moral of the story.....
don't do drugs and you'll qualify for financial aid.
If you do decide to take drugs. you are on your own.
they are showing favoritism to those who dont do drugs. not a bad message if you ask me
Everyone engages in illegal activities. But I had another point but then I remembered you're school system is crap (at least in regard to cost).
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hahahahahahahahahaha..................................
looks like yours wasnt all that fucking great either.....
hehehehehehehehehe.....................
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
Let's say the Supreme Court never overturned sodomy laws. Would you be O.K. with Congress denying financial aid to homosexuals because what they do is, you know, illegal?
no, but forgiveness and second chances are ok.
:rolleyes:
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happens DAILY!!!! And there are people out there denying financial aid to smart kids who will one day be your insurance man, laywer, police officer....etc.
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we are talking about colleges here. which we have some of the best in the world.
but its crap regarding cost? meaning its too expensive? yea I agree.
the law currently denies anyone with a drug offense the possibility of financial aid. paroled murderers can get aid. rapists can too. drunk drivers can also. a kid busted with a joint in high school cannot.
EXACTLY!!!! its fucking dumb!!
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considering he lives in europe and english is his second language and 90% of the americans that post here can't get that right either, id say his is doing alright. i'd like to see the americans here try to type in french or spanish or whatever they learned in high school.
ok well all the others you mentioned should be denied too. and people with drug offences as small as the one you mentioned should be allowed on a case by case basis.
i was just giving him a little shit.....
all in fun.....
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
you don't know much about how the justice system works do you? it's quite simple. people with money for a good lawyer don't get drug convictions. those without that money do. period.
that's the only reason i'm in law school instead of prison. i'm dead serious. i could afford attorneys and got a few lucky breaks.
that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
what kind of a lesson is that teaching kids?
wow.
so then, why did you oppose the initial post? that is exactly what the change in the law mentioned by the OP is for.
thats too bad. I'm glad I dont know you. people who admit they should be in prison, have no business walking the streets.
exactly.
he has battled his demons and come a long way.....
you misunderstood where he was coming from my friend...........
Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
ok fair enough. I think I remember now. I apologize soul.