Lets Hope This Becomes a Trend!

 Outstanding news coming from the Great State of Colorado!  Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D), signed into law a bill allowing the storage and administering of non-smokable medical cannabis on K through 12 property. Allowing a Childs physician and parents to determine what is best for the child and not a local government bureaucrat. 

On to the story from Ganjapreneurr...

“The bill imposes a duty on school principals to create a written treatment plan for the administration of cannabis-based medicine and on school boards to adopt policies regarding actual administration. The bill provides disciplinary protection to nurses who administer cannabis-based medicine to students at school. The bill re

“I’m pleased to sign this bill, which finally will treat cannabis the same way as other prescribed medicines,” Polis said during the signing on Wednesday.

The bill does allow any school staffer who is uncomfortable storing and administering medical cannabis to recuse themselves, but officials cannot opt out of the law.

Republican state Rep. Kevin Van Winkle, one of the bill’s sponsors, told the Post that the reforms have “been a long road coming.”

“Parents should not have to choose between their child’s education and access to life-saving medication,” he said in the report.

State Sen. Chris Holbert, the Republican who introduced the legislation, has previously called the measure “the most important bill” he would sponsor in his career.

The legislation received bipartisan support from 90 of the state’s 100 lawmakers.

Lets hope this starts a Trend all across The Fruited Plains.