South Jersey Girl Denied Medical Marijuana Treatment at School

A teenage girl from South Jersey can’t receive medicinal marijuana treatments during school lunchtime, despite the fact that the treatments have reduced the frequency of her seizures, nj.com reports.

Genny Barbour, 16, of Maple Shade, from epilepsy. The use of medicinal marijuana has reduced the number of seizures she experiences to once every five days, when they once occurred daily, according to the report.

A judge ruled that the state’s law against possessing drugs in schools trumps the state’s medicinal marijuana law, according to the report.

It is the third time the Barbour Family has challenged the law. The courts have ruled twice this year that the nurse at the Larc School in Bellmawr isn’t permitted to administer cannabis oil to Barbour under state law. The most ruling prohibits her mother from coming to school to administer the oil, according to the report.

As a result, Genny Barbour has had to miss half the school day every day since April so she can go home and receive her treatments, according to the report.

Legal experts believe this is the first such challenge of the law in the country.

Read more at nj.com.