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Article: Limits on student aid up for vote; Current law denies loans and grants after drug crimes.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 30, 2005
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Byline: Rob Hotakainen; Melissa Lee; Staff Writers
Washington, D.C. -- Jill Johnson, 21, paid a $600 fine after she tried to sneak a pipe and marijuana into a concert last summer, but she says she only occasionally smokes the drug and should not be denied college financial aid for doing so.
"I think that I deserve to have money and be able to go to school I go back home to Elk River, and everybody's doing meth and they're doing coke and all this stuff," she said. "I mean, I've never touched it. I look at them, and I think they have a drug problem."
After hearing similar complaints from students for years, Congress is rethinking a five-year-old ...