School’s Policy Adjusts for Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Law

The Wayland School’s policy subcommittee will be the first to rewrite existing school policy to adjust to the new medical marijuana law in Massachusetts. This debate will have to address some long standing incongruity between the US Constitutional right to use natural medication versus the federal government’s interest in protecting big pharmaceutical interests.

This quagmire between state, federal and US Constitutional law has exposed a Gordian-knot between special interest groups, which aggressively promote “patented” drugs versus the “non-patentable” natural health benefits of the marijuana plant, backed by long standing science-based evidence.

According to the FDA, “Only drugs can cure, treat and prevent disease.” By virtue of marijuana’s natural health and nutritional benefits, this bold, yet questionable claim, forces marijuana to be categorized as a drug, even though it is as safe as any herb, vegetable or functional food.

Legalizing anything natural and “non-patentable” threatens the profits of big drug companies. The challenge is, whether schools will see the hypocrisy of policing and enforcing the use of prescribed pharmaceutical (scheduled) drugs, like Ritalin and Adderall, while prohibiting the use of a proven, natural and safe alternative. We can only wait and see.