December 17, 2009
Your Doctor's Advice Notwithstanding, Marijuana Is Banned on College Campuses
Richard B. Levine, Newscom
Marijuana may be legal in some states for those with a doctor's prescription, but that doesn't mean that college officials will let students smoke it on the campus.
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Richard B. Levine, Newscom
Marijuana may be legal in some states for those with a doctor's prescription, but that doesn't mean that college officials will let students smoke it on the campus.
For a brief moment this week, it appeared that students with a doctor's permission could legally smoke marijuana at Fort Lewis College, in Colorado. By Tuesday administrators there had clarified the college's policy to state that marijuana, whether for medical or recreational use, was forbidden on the campus.
"We do not allow it anywhere," Mitch Davis, the college's spokesman, said a day after
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