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Parents urge Maine lawmakers to allow medical marijuana in schools

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 04/17/2015 - 08:18

AUGUSTA — Melissa Burnham is allowed to send drugs such as Ritalin, a stimulant, or Valium, a sedative, to school with her 8-year-old son, as long as he has a prescription.

But she cannot send the medicine that best treats Noah’s sometimes-severe epileptic seizures.

“When he has seizures, cannabis is what stops them,” Burnham said.

She was forced to pull Noah out of school recently and arrange for a tutor to come to their house. Not because the school didn’t want to help, she said, but because the law doesn’t allow cannabis.

Burnham, who lives in East Dixfield, shared her story Thursday before a public hearing before the Legislature’s Education Committee on a bill that would allow schools to provide accommodations for children who use medical marijuana.

“He’s missing out on so many things, not being in school,” Burnham said of her son, who receives a tincture of cannabis to...

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