Following quite a bit of time attempting to keep weed out of schools, teachers all over the nation are thinking about how to direct marijuana to students who have certain prescriptions. Medicinal marijuana has been lawful in a few states for twenty years yet school regions and administrators are just now beginning to ponder tough issues dealing with the use of a medication still prohibited under federal law.
“School districts are trying to find their way and navigate this landscape as laws develop and social norms change,” Francisco Negron, general counsel of the National School Boards Association, stated. “This is a situation in which the changing social norms are ahead of the existing operational structure.”
The likelihood of medical cannabis in schools brings up various issues for school authorities. For instance, who will regulate it, how to keep it from being redistributed by minors, and even the legalness of having it on grounds. Just three of the twenty-three states where medicinal marijuana is allowed have seen schools or state authorities set up guidelines, the pro-reform Marijuana Policy Project states.
This week, a school panel in Auburn endorsed a strategy to permit students to have medical cannabis under specific conditions. It would need to be allowed by a doctor and controlled in school by a guardian, Auburn Assistant Superintendent Michelle McClellan said. Nurses wouldn’t have the ability to control the medication and students would not be allowed to smoke it.
The choice in Auburn came to discussion two months after a school in New Jersey turned into the first in the nation to permit medical cannabis. The Larc School organized the arrangement following 16-year-old Genny Barbour, who experiences possibly life-threatening epileptic seizures, battled for the privilege to consume edible cannabis. A medical attendant at the specialized curriculum school in Bellmawr gives Genny her afternoon prescription of cannabis oil.
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