if the kid doesn't get high on it, and shows no outward sign of intoxication, why tell the school ANYTHING???
Posted on 02/22/2011 1:35:12 PM PST by neverdem
Don’t believe one word of it.
Only freaking school oficials would be insane enough to get upset about THC but still allow students to take Ritalin.
Welcome to Zero Tolerance. The school system can’t tell the difference between a gang-banger smoking chronic and a kid sucking on a lozenge.
Why would school officals have a list of prescription meds taken by students at home?
We now have (redacted name) on a medication regimen which actually helps reduce the frequency and duration of his spells, and have found a medication which reliably aborts the attacks (THC) when they occur.
Think of it like a rescue inhaler for asthmatics.
They have no problem with opiates for a sprained ankle, but it's zero tolerance when it's prescribed THC for breakthrough seizures. Go figure.
Where did you do your neurology residency or go to medical school?
I thought the clients would be folks with cancer, people with serious mental issues...
I was in several consultations where the owner was listening to the 100% healthy college student that ‘this was so’ trick’ much better than looking for the dude with the red hat a Walmart.
The whole thing is a sham.
I used to have sympathy, but no more...
Dope smoking is a crime.
Attn Freepers who disagree with me:
What other laws of the union do you break willingly?
A crime is a crime.
Dude!
Wait, what?
Free Republic SO needs a ‘like’ button!
That said, it can't be used in public view and "workplaces" can't be required to allow use while at work. Of course, an adult can just leave the building.
The Independant is a left wing rag, given away free at grocery stores etc. Hard, hard, left wing. You're right not to believe a single word they print.
Anyone that believes this is about medicine probably votes democratic, or is a libertarian. Or could be Willie Nelson I guess.
Can THC not be synthesized in the lab? There is no need to roll-it-and-smoke-it.
I don’t have a problem under specific circumstances (there are a whole bunch of LEGAL narcotics that one can be prescribed for a variety of pains and disorders that are far more mind-altering and addictive than THC when processed as it appears this student may have access to.
I would have a zero-tolerance policy if other students turned up with the lozenges... that would be distributing a controlled substance (no different than if he were giving/selling his vicodin to fellow students).
if the kid doesn't get high on it, and shows no outward sign of intoxication, why tell the school ANYTHING???
Why doesn’t he claim that his medicine is necessary for a sex-change operation? Then he’d have smooth sailing.
Hell, a significant portion of the student body is stoned, anyway. He probably isn’t, as his need is medicinal, and he’s focused on seizure prevention, not being high, giggling in school, and raiding the fridge. They should leave him alone; it would be OK to monitor him for weird or disruptive drug-induced behavior, but nothing he would do could be more disruptive than fading into a 24-hour seizure.
question: since it must be a schedule one drug, and has to be ok'd by the federal government, how can a school or ANY other institution supersede federal law saying he can have and possess it???
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