Colorado’s governor green-lit a law this week allowing school nurses to administer non-smokable medical marijuana to students whose parents have granted then permission to do so.
Gov. John Hickenlooper said the “reasoning and advocacy” of parents whose kids are medical marijuana patients was “very compelling” and led him to sign House Bill 1286 on Tuesday, the Denver Post reported.
In a letter about the law, he pointed to Hannah Lovato and her son Quintin, who suffers from three types of seizures and Tourette syndrome.
Cannabis oil helped Quintin sleep better and love school again, his mom told KDVR. But the third-grader wasn’t getting the proper dosage because a school nurse couldn’t give him the drug until now.
School safety measures have been put in place to ensure the weed doesn’t fall into the wrong hands, officials said.