The "war" on drugs is a war on education, too

Debra Saunders on yet another folly of the drug war:

In 1998, Congress passed an amendment in the Higher Education Act to deny federal financial aid to college students convicted for possession or sale of illegal drugs. In America, you can be convicted for rape, murder or drunk driving and still qualify for federal aid -- as long as you didn't smoke pot.

The law wasn't in effect when Mitch Daniels went to school. While at Princeton, Mr. Daniels was convicted of smoking marijuana and then went on to make nothing of his life -- unless you count the time he served as budget director for the Bush administration or his election in November as the new Republican governor of Indiana.