{"id":234,"date":"2016-12-20T01:37:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T06:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=234"},"modified":"2016-12-20T01:37:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T06:37:14","slug":"toms-river-school-board-to-vote-on-allowing-medical-marijuana-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2016\/12\/toms-river-school-board-to-vote-on-allowing-medical-marijuana-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River School Board to Vote on Allowing Medical Marijuana for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_235\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-235\" class=\"size-large wp-image-235\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/4420604477_44bf695c1c_o-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Marijuana (Photo: Katheirne Hitt\/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/4420604477_44bf695c1c_o-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/4420604477_44bf695c1c_o-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/4420604477_44bf695c1c_o-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/4420604477_44bf695c1c_o-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/4420604477_44bf695c1c_o-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/4420604477_44bf695c1c_o-681x453.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marijuana (Photo: Katheirne Hitt\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Toms River school officials are set to vote this week on a policy that would set parameters for medical marijuana use by students.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0proposed policy, which appears on an agenda for the Board of Education meeting Wednesday night, would allow a parent of primary caregiver to administer medical marijuana to a student while on school grounds, a school bus or attending a school-sponsored event. The policy stems from legislation passed last year that mandates districts to enact policies that\u00a0allow the administration of medical marijuana to students.<\/p>\n<p>According to the proposal, both the student and parent or primary caregiver must be authorized by the state Department of Health, respectively, to take and administer medical marijuana. Parents wishing to administer marijuana to their children would be required to notify the school principal, who would consult with the school nurse, physician and superintendent before providing written approval with the parameters under which the substance would be used.<\/p>\n<p>Marijuana would be able to be administered on school grounds, on a school bus or during school-sponsored activities. The policy calls a parent to remain in possession of the drug except when physically administering it to their child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe primary caregiver shall comply with the requirements of the principal\u2019s written approval,\u201d the policy states.<\/p>\n<p>Board of Education members will consider the policy\u2019s introduction at meeting Wednesday. The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. at Toms River High School North,\u00a01245 Old Freehold Road. Policies must receive a second approval at a later meeting before becoming official.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2016\/12\/toms-river-school-board-to-vote-on-allowing-medical-marijuana-for-students\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toms River school officials are set to vote this week on a policy that would set parameters for medical marijuana use by students. The\u00a0proposed policy, which appears on an agenda for the Board of Education meeting Wednesday night, would allow a parent of primary caregiver to administer medical marijuana to a student while on school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[61,60,59,63,62,11,64],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-toms-river-schools","tag-marijuana","tag-marijuana-in-schools","tag-medical-marijuana","tag-new-jersey","tag-nj","tag-toms-river-nj-news","tag-toms-river-regional-schools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/4420604477_44bf695c1c_o.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}