Members of Kentucky’s Jefferson County Board of Education last week approved a policy allowing students to take prescribed medical cannabis on school property, the Louisville Courier Journal reports. Jefferson County is the state’s largest school district.
The policy requires medical cannabis to be administered out of the view of other students. Kentucky’s medical cannabis law allows medical cannabis use administration on school grounds, but the district must approve a policy first.
In an interview with the Courier Journal, Jefferson County Public Schools spokesman Mark Hebert said the policy is “no different than school nurses, nurse practitioners or other trained school staff administering other tightly controlled substances like Ritalin or Adderall to a student.”
“We anticipate most medicinal cannabis will be given to students at home, but there may be times when the doctor or prescription calls for the medicine to be given during school hours.” — Hebert via the Courier Journal
Medical cannabis is not yet available in Kentucky. The state started accepting applications on July 1 and the first businesses are expected to be licensed, in a lottery process, in October with products expected to be available beginning January 1, 2025.
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