The coronavirus relief package passed by Congress over the weekend includes a repeal of a ban on federal financial aid for students with convictions for drug offenses that has been on the books for more than 20 years. If signed into law by President Trump, the provision of the massive relief and stimulus package would reverse a policy enacted in 1998 at the height of the nation’s failed War on Drugs.

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