Medical marijuana OK at K-12 schools in California after Gov. Newsom signs new law

Under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, California parents may administer medical cannabis to their children at school if the school board approves.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that paves the way for parents in some California school districts to bring medical cannabis to their students at K-12 campuses, breaking with former Gov. Jerry Brown, who had vetoed similar legislation last year.

Parents must obtain a doctor’s recommendation to administer the cannabis products on campus, he said. The new law, which takes effect Jan. 1, was dubbed JoJo’s Act by Hill in reference to a San Francisco Bay Area teenager with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy. The boy’s mother, Karina Garcia, testified to lawmakers that JoJo takes medicinal cannabis tinctures to prevent debilitating seizures that had prevented him from attending school.

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