{"id":10608,"date":"2017-03-13T01:36:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T05:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=10608"},"modified":"2017-03-13T01:36:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T05:36:59","slug":"brick-boe-policy-will-allow-students-to-use-medical-marijuana-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/03\/brick-boe-policy-will-allow-students-to-use-medical-marijuana-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick BOE Policy Will Allow Students to Use Medical Marijuana in School"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Students whose disabilities qualify them to use medical marijuana will soon be allowed to do so in\u00a0Brick Township school, buses and school-sponsored events.<\/p>\n

The Board of Education last week introduced a medical marijuana policy that will govern how students qualify and are administered medical marijuana. The policy is in response to a state law passed in 2015\u00a0that requires\u00a0districts to enact policies that\u00a0allow the administration of medical marijuana to students.<\/p>\n

Under Brick\u2019s pending policy, a student who qualifies would not be able to self-administer medical marijuana. According to the policy, the student\u2019s primary caregiver\u00a0would be called to administer the substance on school grounds, on the school bus or at school sponsored activities. Administrators and school nurses would be responsible for verifying that a student is registered with the state Department of Health and approved to receive marijuana and meet with parents or guardians to draw up an individualized health care plan. On school grounds, marijuana would be administered in the nurse\u2019s office unless the plan calls for an alternate location.<\/p>\n

Students, under the policy, would not be able to carry the marijuana on their person or take it on school buses. Marijuana would have to be stored\u00a0by a caregiver off school grounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt shall be the sole responsibility of the primary caregiver to maintain and administer the medication,\u201d the policy states.<\/p>\n

The policy was approved last week with all but one school board member, Sharon Cantillo, voted in favor of it. The policy must be passed on second reading before it is enacted.<\/p>\n

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Students whose disabilities qualify them to use medical marijuana will soon be allowed to do so in\u00a0Brick Township school, buses and school-sponsored events. The Board of Education last week introduced a medical marijuana policy that will govern how students qualify and are administered medical marijuana. The policy is in response to a state law passed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[24,2804],"class_list":["post-10608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-schools","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-medical-marijuana"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/4420604477_44bf695c1c_o.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2L6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}