students for a sensible drug policy

The Senate is preparing to reauthorize the Higher Education Act. This is a chance to strip some very harmful law from the act which prevents students with drug-related convictions from receiving financial aid. Students for a Sensible Drug Policy have a novel video modeling what it's like to do the activism:

I think this is probably a really smart thing to do: video yourself doing a little lobbying, and I hope it works. This rule is one of the most counterproductive, knee-jerk pieces of "law and order" legislation out there. It was passed in 1998 under Clinton and is a particularly good example of how ineffective and culturally insensitive his "third way" really was. Check out the personal story from Jesus' General, who got busted hooking up some informants w/pot in 1979: