{"id":8321,"date":"2018-06-05T18:41:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T18:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=3073003"},"modified":"2018-06-05T18:41:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T18:41:39","slug":"school-nurses-can-treat-students-with-medical-marijuana-thanks-to-law-green-lit-by-gov-hickenlooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/school-nurses-can-treat-students-with-medical-marijuana-thanks-to-law-green-lit-by-gov-hickenlooper\/","title":{"rendered":"School nurses can treat students with medical marijuana, thanks to law green-lit by Gov. Hickenlooper"},"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\/school-nurses-can-treat-students-with-medical-marijuana-thanks-to-law-green-lit-by-gov-hickenlooper\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/school-nurses-can-treat-students-with-medical-marijuana-thanks-to-law-green-lit-by-gov-hickenlooper.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>School nurses in Colorado now can administer nonsmokable medical marijuana to students whose parents have given permission.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado law already permitted parents to give their children medical marijuana at school, typically for treating seizures. A new law signed this week by Gov. John Hickenlooper allows parents to bring the medicine to a school nurse\u2019s office for a child who has a medical marijuana card.<\/p>\n<p>The law requires that the medicine be kept in a locked storage container and that the school principal and a parent have a written agreement. It also says the parent must bring a doctor\u2019s note that instructs the school nurse about dosage and timing.<\/p>\n<p>Under the law, students receiving medical marijuana at school cannot carry the medicine to the nurse\u2019s office or bring it on a school bus.<\/p>\n<p>The governor, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.gov\/governor\/sites\/default\/files\/1286_letter.pdf\">a letter<\/a>, said he signed<a href=\"https:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/hb18-1286\"> House Bill 1286<\/a>\u00a0because of the protections to ensure medical marijuana would not \u201cend up in the hands of other students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hickenlooper also said he consulted parents whose children receive medical marijuana and found their \u201creasoning and advocacy very compelling.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>The law does not require school staff to administer doses of medical marijuana, only giving them permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Colorado law already permitted parents to give their children medical marijuana at school, usually to treat seizures. The new law signed this week by Gov. John Hickenlooper allows parents to bring medical marijuana to the school nurse&#8217;s office for children who have medical marijuana cards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7337,6907,6811,6857,2097,6813,6848,77,5667,56,9,5019,7829,441,1,3,1525,61,1736],"tags":[7338,6909,6816,6859,4665,6818,6851,2655,5673,2636,5022,7830,3015,4093],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321"}],"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=8321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}