teenager with medical marijuana

“SCHOOL WON’T ALLOW STUDENT WITH SEIZURES TO TAKE MARIJUANA PILL”
　
The story is, a teenager in Colorado has a neurological condition called Myaclonus Diaphragmatic, which causes him to have seizures in his chest and throat. The teen was prescribed medical marijuana to help control the symptoms. The school claims that under State Law the teen can’t take the marijuana pill, not even if he keeps it safe in the nurses office.

This just blows my mind. How many teenagers smoke pot?? Probably quite a few! I think that if that one student who was prescribed legal medical marijuana isn’t allowed to take his meds than they should be drug testing all the kids at the school and sending them home too.

The parents tried setting up a plan for the kid to where if he has a seizure he should go home and take the MJ pill, and the school said that it’s okay as long as he isn’t disruptive or showing signs of impairment once returned in school. There seems to be a lot of miscommunication within this situation because the nurse told the boy that it’s ok if he takes the pill and returns to school …as long as the school doesn’t know about it?! Why would it be a secret if the school said it was okay AS LONG as he doesn’t show signs of impairment.

In my option, I’m not sure I’d even tell the school my business. As long as the kid was taking the situation serious and not telling all of his friends that he gets prescribed marijuana, or distributing it to anyone, I would just keep it on the down low.