Colorado pot-in-schools bill awaits governor’s pen

DENVER (AP) - Colorado schools would be required to allow medical marijuana use under a bill awaiting the governor’s pen.

Gov. John Hickenlooper says he supports the school requirement.

Senators voted 35-0 Tuesday in favor of the bill. It makes Colorado the second state to require schools to accommodate student pot use.

The bill says schools must permit non-smokeable marijuana medicines at school, as long as and the drug is administered by a parent or adult caregiver. Students could not administer the drug themselves.

The bill gives schools an option not to comply if they lose federal funding because of allowing medical marijuana.

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House Bill 1373: https://bit.ly/23iosja