Students fighting the Drug War


but not on the side you think.
This piece from Drug War Rant is almost too good. The Students for Sensible Drug Policy are suing the Department of Education over a FOI request.

In order to pursue the next step in their effort, SSDP filed a Freedom Of Information request to find out state by state how many students had been denied financial aid because of this law. The Department of Education is happy to provide the information, and when requested to provide information that is in the public interest, it is standard procedure to waive the very large processing fee (about $4,000 in this case).

However, the tic-tac-toe playing, single-digit-composite-ACT-scoring, can't-divide-by-10-in-their-head apparatchiks in the Department of Education decided (after looking at the website of Students for Sensible Drug Policy and concluding that these students were in favor of drug legalization) that providing the requested information would not serve the public interest, but rather the commercial interests of those who might profit from the legalization of drugs.

I kid you not.

He's got some great links there.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Sat - January 28, 2006 at 05:05 AM  Tag


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