HB 1060 Requires a school district to permit a student who meets certain requirements to consume marijuana for medical purposes on school grounds, aboard a school bus, or while attending a school-sponsored event. Requires the board of directors of a school district to adopt a policy that authorizes parents, guardians, and primary caregivers to administer marijuana to a student for medical purposes while the student is on school grounds, aboard a school bus, or attending a school-sponsored event.
You can read & comment on the bill HERE
The Health & Wellness Committee held a hearing for HB 1060 on Tuesday January 17. Most testimony was in support. The opposition seems to be the school’s not wanting to touch something that is federally illegal. Well, as I others pointed out, our entire legalization system is in opposition to federal law so if they can figure out a way around federal law to garner tax revenue, they can find a way around it for the most vulnerable in our society, our sick children.
Ducky’s Bill founder, River’s father testified first about how his daughter was highly capable prior to developing seizures during kindergarten. Like most parents of children who are medical patients, once the pharmaceuticals had failed & taken their toll turned to medical cannabis which has greatly increased his daughters capability to learn and redevelop skills she had lost.
Maddie’s Law founder, Megan Holt’s testimony made not only the audience but members of the committee tear up. How can you not hear the struggle these parents have gone through and not want to see them and their children succeed!
As one person testifying put it, the quality of these children’s lives is in your [the legislature’s] hands!
The Principles Association had the awesome answer. Let the nurses dispense it instead of having parents come on site and doing so. They opposed parents dispensing medicine on site but not the type of medicine. As the gentleman statesd, since it is medicine, why not treat it like all the other medicines! How about that! Someone with common sense and a no nonsense approach that would immediately resolve the issue. Let the nurses dispense it like they do every other medication children require during the school day! 
Oh no, hold on there a minute, the next person up is about to challenge that! How can we expect school nurses to dispense a schedule 1 narcotic that federally has no medical value at all? They’d have to like, dispense a cookie, or a gel cap, to a child. How could we possibly have such a thing happen! Surely our federal aid would be pulled!
I get it. Trump is one scary SOB but come on! I just can’t buy the federal boogie man argument when they are all more than happy to reap the benefits of the tax revenue.
There are currently 57 children in the medical cannabis registry that face varying challenges with the public school system due to the lack of guidelines for dispensing their medicine.
Let’s hope HB 1060 passes out of committee. I will keep you posted!!
