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Colleges in Massachusetts now join us California schools in our legal limbo status between the state and federal government. All of us must follow the Federal Drug Free Schools and Community Act requirement of maintaining strict policies against the use and possession of illegal drugs; illegal drugs includes, under Federal law, marijuana. So as far as I know, all schools have interpreted the legal environment to mean that state laws allowing marijuana are irrelevant. Students may think they can smoke pot because they have a medical excuse, but on campus they can't. 19 states and the District of Columbia now have medical use.
Washington and Colorado went a step further by legalizing non-medical use. Presumably the legal opinions for campuses there will remain the same: Campuses will still need to forbid marijuana.
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