Policies On Transgender Students, Use Of Medical Marijuana Introduced By School Board

Policies allowing the medical use of marijuana by students and prohibiting discrimination against transgender students were introduced at the June 30 Board of Education meeting.

A public hearing and final vote on the policies is scheduled for the board’s July 21 meeting.

Under the two policies – both of which are as a result of state laws – the school district will recognize a transgender student’s “assertion of their gender identity” and will allow a student to receive medical marijuana from a “primary caregiver” while on school grounds, on school buses or at school events.