{"id":6033,"date":"2016-05-14T03:20:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T03:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=4802"},"modified":"2016-05-14T03:20:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T03:20:11","slug":"co-bill-passed-would-require-school-districts-to-allow-medical-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/co-bill-passed-would-require-school-districts-to-allow-medical-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"CO: Bill Passed Would Require School Districts To Allow Medical Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/co-bill-passed-would-require-school-districts-to-allow-medical-marijuana\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>A bill has passed in Colorado that would require school districts to allow students to use medical marijuana on school grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The bill will only allow non-smokeable cannabis medicine at schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a no smoking ban at schools anyways, this isn&#8217;t about that. This is controlled. This is me coming to the school as a caregiver. No school administrators, school personnel, school nurses, nobody is going to be giving this to the kids except the caregiver,&#8221; said Jennie Stormes, whose son uses medical cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>Jax Stormes has Dravet&#8217;s Syndrome, which leaves him severely disabled and suffering from constant seizures. His mother said cannabis is the only medicine that has worked well for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is about me as a parent being able to take care of and meet my son&#8217;s medical needs while being able to allow him to have his education,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Jax was suspended last year after he accidentally brought his cannabis tablets with him to his District 49 high school. According to the existing policy, Jax had brought a controlled substance on school grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers are hoping to avoid situations like that by passing a bill that requires school districts to allow medical marijuana on school grounds if it is given to the student by that student&#8217;s caregiver.<\/p>\n<p>Jax&#8217;s mom testified at the State Capitol as the bill moved through.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[It&#8217;s] no different than giving them Adderall if that&#8217;s what&#8217;s prescribed, Epipen if that&#8217;s what&#8217;s prescribed or even Tylenol. We need to be able to give them what they need,&#8221; said Jennie.<\/p>\n<p>The bill does allow school districts to opt out if they put a disclaimer on their website explaining why or if they can prove they lost federal funding because of the policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When my son goes to the hospital the hospitals aren&#8217;t losing their federal funding. The schools in New Jersey, the schools in Maine are not losing their federal funding by implementing a policy like this,&#8221; Jennie said.<\/p>\n<p>As 11 News has been reporting, District 49 has already drafted such a policy because of students like Jax. They&#8217;ll be making a final vote on that draft policy on May 12.<\/p>\n<p>11 News reached out to all the school districts in southern Colorado to see if they plan to write a new policy. We are still waiting to hear back from many of them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4803\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/co-bill-passed-would-require-school-districts-to-allow-medical-marijuana.jpg\" alt=\"MMJ-for-kids\" width=\"737\" height=\"400\" \/>News Moderator: Robert Celt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a><br \/>\nFull Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kktv.com\/home\/headlines\/Bill-Passed-Would-Require-School-Districts-to-Allow-Medical-Marijuana--378048891.html\" target=\"_blank\">CO: Bill Passed Would Require School Districts To Allow Medical Marijuana<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: Danielle Kreutter<br \/>\nContact: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kktv.com\/station\" target=\"_blank\">11News<\/a><br \/>\nPhoto Credit: None found<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kktv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">11News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill has passed in Colorado that would require school districts to allow students to use medical marijuana on school&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/2016\/05\/co-bill-passed-require-school-districts-allow-medical-marijuana\/\" class=\"read-more\">[Read More]<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1614,9,1,3],"tags":[4182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}