House Panel Votes To Let Students With Drug Convictions Keep College Aid

A congressional committee approved a bill on Thursday that would repeal a federal law that punishes college students who are convicted of drug offenses by stripping them of their financial aid. First enacted in 1998, the Higher Education Act (HEA) Aid Elimination Penalty has since costs hundreds of thousands of students access to the means to pay for their tuition, some because of low-level marijuana offenses. Please visit Forbes to read the rest of this piece. (Marijuana Moment’s editor provides some content to Forbes via a temporary exclusive publishing license arrangement.) Photo courtesy of Pixabay. The post House Panel Votes To Let Students With Drug Convictions Keep College Aid appeared first on Marijuana Moment.

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