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Special KCPD Unit Focuses on Saving Lives, One Drunk at a Time

By | December 23, 2021 | 1
A Kansas City police officer administers a sobriety field test.

Meet Kansas City police officer Douglas Davidson. He has the distinction of arresting more people for drunk or otherwise impaired driving than any other member of law enforcement in Missouri.

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Kansas Citians Embrace Magic Mushrooms and Altered States

By | December 17, 2021 | 0
A computer-enhanced composite image of magic mushrooms.

Even though the use, possession or distribution of psychedelics is a felony, more Kansas Citians are embracing magic mushrooms as scientific evidence mounts that they can help deal with a variety of emotional disorders.

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Nick’ Picks | The Week’s Hot News Items Include the Weather and Chiefs

By | December 13, 2021 | 0
Nick Haines

Nick’s Picks for this week’s top news items include unseasonably warm weather, the red hot Kansas City Chiefs and the future of Kansas City Police Department Chief Rick Smith.

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‘Highway to Hemp’: Waves of Fiber and Grain

By | December 1, 2021 | 0
Melissa Nelson-Baldwin catches hemp hurds as they fall out of the decorticator at South Bend Industrial Hemp.

South Bend Industrial Hemp, located at the outskirts of Great Bend, Kansas, is at the cutting edge of the emerging industrial hemp economy.

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How Delta-8 THC is Shaking Up the KC Cannabis Industry

By | November 17, 2021 | 0
Delta-8 THC.

Delta-8 has surged in popularity since the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized hemp and products with less than 0.3% THC, the intoxicating component of cannabis plants that delivers the “high.”

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