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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Maine: Policy For Medical Marijuana In School Initialed 🌿Maine: Policy For Medical Marijuana In School Initialed
AUBURN — The School Committee approved the first reading of a new policy Wednesday night that would allow students to have medical marijuana administered in school under a physician's orders and under certain conditions.
Any medical marijuana would have to be approved by a physician, and it would have to be administered in school by a parent or guardian, Assistant Superintendent Michelle McClellan said. Because medical marijuana is allowed under a certificate from a physician but not a prescription, nurses may not administer the drug.
Marijuana doses would have to be in a nonsmoking form, such as being edible.
Committee member Brent Bilodeau asked if the new policy would conflict with existing rules, which do not allow students to be under the influence at school.
Superintendent Katy Grondin said marijuana is being treated as a medicine in this case, and a new state law requires all schools to adopt a...
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