Colorado law allowing medical marijuana use at schools being debated
DENVER -- A new Colorado law allowing medical marijuana use at public schools is getting a second look Monday in a House committee.
The current law allows students who need medical marijuana to use edible pot at public schools - as long as the school districts agree.
No school districts currently does, so patient advocates are pushing the bill to make Colorado the second state to require schools to allow nurses or parents to administer medical pot. New Jersey made the change last year.
"They need to make reasonable accommodations so that children who need medical marijuana can go to school," said Stacey Linn, a Lakewood mother of a 15-year-old with cerebral palsy who is not allowed to wear a skin patch delivering a cannabis-derived treatment to school.
Medical marijuana has been legal in some states for two decades. But school districts and lawmakers nationwide are only now starting to...
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