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New Mexico Bill Filed to Allow Medical Cannabis at Schools

The bill allows exclusions for districts that demonstrate they will lose or have lost federal funding from allowing medical cannabis.

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Albuquerque Journal (N.M.)
January 17, 2019

SANTA FE, N.M. — There’s a new push to allow medical cannabis on school grounds.

Sen. Candace Gould, R-Albuquerque, has pre-filed Senate Bill 204, aiming to allow the medicine in schools and on school buses, and to be administered by staff.

Yet the bill allows exclusions for districts that demonstrate they will lose or have lost federal funding from allowing medical cannabis.

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