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4/19/2006
According to an article on the USA Today Web site, one in every 400 students who apply for federal financial aid for college is rejected because of a drug conviction. Since the federal government added a question asking about drug convictions to the financial aid application in the 2000-01 school year, 189,065 students have lost out on financial aid, as reported in a study by Students for Sensible Drug Policy.
Although the law is currently being challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union, at this point, a student convicted of drug possession and/or of selling drugs, is ineligible for financial aid for a minimum of one year, with the time increasing depending on the number of offenses.
Read the entire article on the USA Today Web site.
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