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Posted by CN Staff on May 08, 2002 at 15:54:20 PT By Wayne Wilson, Sacramento Bee Source: Sacramento Bee 
Life just got more complicated for an 8-year-old boy and his mother who has had great success battling his mental disorders with a doctor-approved marijuana therapy.The youngster's medical condition has improved so dramatically that he can now attend public school, but school officials won't permit a school nurse to administer his cannabis capsules and won't let him take the pills himself on campus, the child's mother said. "Other kids get their medication," she complained. But the drug her son needs daily at 1 p.m. must be delivered by her personally, off the school grounds, she said. "It makes him feel he's not normal, that he's being treated differently. He wonders why he's being targeted. He just wants to be normal," she said. She hopes to persuade school officials to change their minds and allow the capsules to be given on campus. The woman, whose name is being withheld to protect the boy's identity, has been treating her son with medical cannabis for the past year, at home and at the private school he had been attending. But in April, they moved. She presented her son's new school with the required permission slip for students who need medication at school, a form she and the boy's doctor signed. The day before the boy was to report to his new school, however, a message left on the family answering machine informed the mother that her son's recommended medication could not be administered on campus. So, she says, she's been forced to drive a round trip of 26 miles each noontime to remove him from the school grounds, give him his capsules, and return him to class. Vicki Barber, superintendent of the El Dorado County Office of Education, said she state law permits schools to dispense drugs only when they are formally "prescribed" by a physician. The boy's doctor made a "recommendation," and there is a difference, Barber added, between a "prescription" and a doctor's "recommendation." Because the district has a zero-tolerance policy, students are not permitted to have in their possession or to self-administer drugs of any kind, she said. Source: Sacramento Bee (CA) Related Article & Web Site: Medical Marijuana Information Links Is It A Crime? - 48 Hours CannabisNews Medical Mariuana Archives Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #2 posted by FoM on May 08, 2002 at 18:38:18 PT |
| After I posted this article I found one with more detail and put it in the archives. I recommend you're daughter use this one I'm posting now and check out WAMM's web site because that is the organization that the mom and son were and maybe still are affiliated with.
WAMM - Valerie Corral http://www.wamm.org/ Ill Boy's New Hurdle: School Drug Rules The Secret Garden - WAMM http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread12358.shtml Tell your daughter good luck with her project! [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #1 posted by Rainbow on May 08, 2002 at 18:23:11 PT |
| FoM this could not have come at a better time. My daughter signed up to do a speech on Medical marijuana. And I caught her looking for information on the net. We had a great talk and now I am looking for good information for her 10th grade class.
I think the school will be disappointed when they find out I am helping her HeHeHe.
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