Vermont School Nurse Refuses to Give Child Cannabis Oil for Seizures
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Aurora Husk has suffered from seizures, up to 40 times a day, since she was a mere 8 weeks old. Her mother discovered CBD oil (made from hemp, not cannabis) and used it effectively to treat her daughter, until a school nurse in Bristol, Vermont refused to treat Aurora with CBD or keep it in her office.
Aurora’s mother gives her the CBD oil three times a day to keep her seizures at bay long enough and consistently enough so that she can even attend school, and despite Vermont’s Attorney General, Bill Sorrell, claiming that CBD oil can be very effective for treating many illnesses, the school nurse still refused to administer it to Aurora two of the three times it was needed. The school has made it taboo to even have the oil on school grounds.
The school claims that hemp is not allowed by federal law, and since their school receives funding from the federal government, they are not comfortable administering it to children, even though hemp has absolutely no hallucinogenic properties, especially in CBD oil.
Karen Richards, executive director of the Vermont Human Rights Commission explained:
“It is not a legal substance under federal law . . . We have the same issues with medical marijuana. You may have it in the state, but you’re still in violation technically of federal law.”
Due to the school’s extreme conservatism regarding hemp and cannabis, Aurora’s mother has to drive to the school twice daily to administer the CBD oil to her daughter.
What would you do if your child had a serious form of epilepsy that was resistant to treatment by conventional methods? If a form of liquid cannabis was available that had proven results for reducing your child’s debilitating and painful seizures by 53%, wouldn’t you obtain that medicine by whatever means possible like so many other parents have done?
We need to legalize cannabis and get the feds out of this ‘issue.’
You can learn more about CBD oil, here.
Photos: GLENN RUSSELL/FREE PRESS
 | Christina Sarich is a humanitarian and freelance writer helping you to Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World. Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga. |
This is not the right way to handle this The CBD oil is fine, however putting that responsibility onto the school nurse takes that nurse away from the rest of the kids in the school. This is changing the system to meet the needs if one at the expense of the rest. The parent is the one that should be coming into the school to adminster the meds. The old rule of response is you can not take one life to get to attempt to save another. People and their families are the only ones that should be administering meds. If a child can take a pill and nurse simply observe to prevent choking yes, but to be forced to put drops under a childs tongue puts the nurse at great risk if administered incorrectly to little or to much, if child resists the parent will sue the school and the nurse. This defeats the purpose of having a nurse at the school. If the parent does not want their day interrupted than they should hire a nurse to go to the school and administer the meds, the school nurse needs to ve available to all, not dedicated to just one with special needs
Isn’t this akin to the lady in Kentucky appropriating personal beliefs over others in a public position? As a nurse, I can say she is out of line. If it is medically prescribed, it is not her place to withhold effective therapy. She needs to do her research or find another position where her personal beliefs do not cost a patient valuable treatment.
If she was my daughter I’d move to Washington or Colorado.
Yeah, but for some reason they have no trouble handing out harmful and addictive pharma drugs like candy at school…
Don’t blame the school or the nurse. Given the nature of the drug laws in the US, administering cannibis or hemp oil to a minor is a HUGE legal risk, even if you’re the child’s parent, much less a medical professional or a public school.
The thing is, though, that hemp is NOT a hallucinogenic drug. People really should educate themselves before banishing helpful plant medicines from their environment.
I’m not debating whether either should be illegal or not (I suspect we agree on that point), but given the current situation the school’s response is completely understable.
Yes, unfortunately, the “current situation” is that the majority of the people in this country are brain dead and brainwashed, and they therefore willingly toe the line.
So you advocate illegal drug? Not to surprising most people of limited intelligence do.
I see business is lagging, troll-boy. Or are you needing to follow me around again to make your life fulfilled? How sweet.
Hemp is NOT a drug. It is a medicine. A non-harmful one, at that. Hemp is also many many other things like building material, clothing, animal bedding, plus 100s more uses. So yes, I do think our farmers should be allowed to grow it and we should all be able to make/use things with it. Legally.
Now go back under your biotech bridge.
For this time of year, business actually isn’t to bad, but thanks for asking. Shame you have smoked to much weed to know what is actually bad for you.
OMG, you are so pathetic. Lol.
Yes I realize that to you anyone that has to work hard must be pathetic.
No, I don’t think hard work equals pathetic. Troll equals pathetic, and you just happen to work hard at trolling. Nice try, though. Now do you actually have anything intelligent to say about the topic of this article?
I guess anyone that doesn’t agree with your narrow minded views must be a troll. How sad.
ROFLMAO. Thanks for confirming that you have nothing intelligent to say about the topic. You are a classic example of a troll, and I’m *pretty* sure that everyone recognizes you as one. Every time you leave a comment, you confirm your troll status. Every time you follow me into an article that is totally unrelated to GMOs, you confirm your troll status. Thanks again for all that confirmation.
I have seen you treat many the same way for not agreeing with you. I do pity you.
Um, and just where are you seeing this activity? When I’ve called out other biotech-trolls, idiots like “kitten”, and the pharma-trolls? That’s where you would likely see it, and of course, you only see that if you’re clicking on my name to see what I’m writing elsewhere. In fact, you would have had to go back pretty far in my comments to even see anything like that since you’re the only troll I’ve been “conversing” with for quite some time. As I’m sure you saw for yourself, most of my comments are helpful when I’m not addressing idiots and trolls. Say…I must be greatly worthy of your attention since you’re spending so much time checking up on my comment history from months ago. 🙂
I treat “normal” people with respect. I treat you, and others like you, like a troll. Go back under your bridge since you obviously have nothing to add to the topic of the article. Your comments don’t even make sense at all now. There’s nothing for us to even “disagree” about here because you still haven’t said *anything* of intelligence about hemp. How can I be disagreeing with you on this topic? You stated something that was blatantly false. I don’t “disagree” with you on a personal basis–you are just patently wrong. Most people know that hemp isn’t a drug, and that was your initial lame-brain comment. My reply was a correction–not a “disagreement”.
Never seen anything helpful about you.
Why on earth do you keep leaving drivelish comments even when called out? Stop being a psycho, already.
Go ahead and have the last word, bobo. I know you really like that. Just don’t expect any kind of response from me–no matter how much you try to bait me. 😉
Now don’t run away with hurt feeling, just when we were about to come to an understanding.
intelligent people know that it would be “too” surprising, not “to” surprising.
Sorry not an English major. More concerned about getting farmers the tools they need to produce food for the world.
I’m not an English major either. I learned that in fourth grade and you are the one calling someone of limited intelligence while making a grammar mistake. You are clearly an idiot. You are concerned about getting farmers the tools they need? What has that got to do with marijuana being legal. I grew up on a farm. They don’t need tools. Industrial hemp being legal would be amazing tool to be able to grow something useful and not deadly like GMO foods. And I don’t need farmers to produce shit for me. I have a flock of chickens and a giant garden. But I am sure all the farmers of the world are all sitting around ringing their hands while some jackass on the computer is working on getting them tools.
and you are right. One should only advocate the use of legal drugs that kill 100,000 people per year that is known. I am sure it is much higher than that.
What are these idiots thinking? Don’t use public school. It’s that easy!
like Cindy implied I am stunned that any body can make $5241 in one month on the computer. try this website on `my` `prof1le`
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Hemp is classified the same as cannabis, schedule I, under the federal Drug schedule classifications.
That’s SO ridiculous. So many beneficial and durable products can be made from both hemp and marijuana – clothing, medicines, etc.
Bernie Sanders is introducing legislation to REMOVE marijuana from Schedule 1.
Sanders 2016!
Maybe so, but the Marxist Zionist’s solution for EVERY problem is to grow the incompetent government and give it more power. Too bad you can’t see the folly in that.
Who the hell around here is a marxist zionist?
As for growing an incompetent govt, GOPers always say that govt doesn’t work, and then they get into office and make Sure it doesn’t work. The Dept. of so-called Homeland Security, btw, is the BIGGEST big govt bureaucratic boondoggle that the GOPers have ever created; also the most useless and the most expensive.
Yes it is, and it’s an equally-idiotic classification for both plants. Neither one actually fit under that category.
so, the feds break the rules when it is necessary but this on that is necessary to children with different illnesses they can’t ???
“Conservative” nurse. There’s the problem.
I would also put a child with epilepsy on a ketogenic diet and if the pediatrician doesn’t like it, find another doctor preferably a Naturopath or a holistic nutritionist.
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