Kentucky’s Largest School District Approves Medical Marijuana For Qualifying Students
Kentucky’s Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS), the largest school district in the state, approved a measure that would allow qualifying students to use medical marijuana during school hours this upcoming academic year.
“This means that students that we have, who need this medication and are prescribed medicinal marijuana, will be able to receive that medication during the school day, if that is what their prescription says from their doctor,” said Carolyn Callahan, JCPS chief of communications said.
“This will be mostly for students who have seizure disorders. That is what we are expecting. Most of our students with this, we anticipate, will be taking this medication at home either before or after the school day. But we do understand that some doctors are going to prescribe this and say that it needs to be administered times during the school day, so now we will be able to do that,” Callahan said,