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The saga of a Colorado Springs teenager struggling with a rare neurological condition best controlled with medical marijuana lozenges
became a little more surreal when Harrison School District 2 informed the student’s father that the child cannot return to school on
any day that he consumes medical marijuana.
“They say if he takes his medicine he cannot come back to school,” the teenager’s father told The Colorado Independent.
The child missed most of the last school year when he was diagnosed with diaphragmatic
and axial myoclonus, which causes seizures that can last for 24 hours or more.
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He spent extensive periods of time hospitalized and used morphine and other narcotics to control the seizures until doctors discovered that THC works better than any other medication.
He was able to return to school in January but as the district would not allow him to possess or consume his prescribed medicine on campus, he transferred to a school closer to home so that he could walk home as needed to take his medicine.
After the district’s latest salvo was delivered, the teen’s father said he spoke with both the district superintendent and the district attorney and that neither were receptive to his arguments that his son needs the medicine to function, does not get high and does not smell like marijuana.
The district has refused to comment to us, other than for a spokesperson to say that the district intends to follow the letter of the law, which is that no student may possess or consume medical marijuana on school grounds.
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Teen’s medical marijuana fight escalates as school says he cannot come back to class after going home for medicine | Colorado Independent