In the five years since New York legalized cannabis, educators across the city have seen an uptick in student marijuana use spilling into the school day and grappled with how to respond.
As smoke shops proliferated, teens had more access to potent products, and some used cannabis to self-medicate mental health challenges that spiked in the wake of the pandemic, educators previously told Chalkbeat. Many educators said they felt ill-equipped to respond to students using cannabis during school or showing up high to class.
Now, a new set of educational resources developed by the state’s Office of Cannabis Management could help fill that gap…