{"id":3259,"date":"2020-12-23T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/congress-restores-student-financial-aid-eligibility-for-those-with-drug-convictions\/"},"modified":"2020-12-25T22:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T22:01:22","slug":"congress-restores-student-financial-aid-eligibility-for-those-with-drug-convictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/congress-restores-student-financial-aid-eligibility-for-those-with-drug-convictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Restores Student Financial Aid Eligibility For Those With Drug Convictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is pushing to overturn a draconian policy that was enacted in 1998.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cs-entry__content-wrap\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>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\u2019s failed\u00a0<a class=\"rank-math-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hightimes.com\/news\/legalization\/cannabis-became-illegal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">War on Drugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hightimes.com\/news\/congress-restores-student-financial-aid-eligibility-drug-convictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congress Restores Student Financial Aid Eligibility For Those With Drug Convictions<\/a> is an article that first appeared on; <a href=\"https:\/\/hightimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hightimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3259\" data-postid=\"3259\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3259 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is pushing to overturn a draconian policy that was enacted in 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,51,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cannabis-law","category-news","category-politics","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}