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Shona Banda, shown here after she was booked into jail and then released after posting bond in June, is preparing to sue Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, the Kansas Department for Children and Families and the Garden City Police Department. (Photo: James Dobson | Garden City Telegram)

Take 5 for your health

Kansas Mom Charged in Marijuana Case to Sue Brownback, State Agency Lawyers for Garden City resident Shona Banda have prepared a lawsuit against Gov. Sam Brownback and the state agency that has custody of her child, claiming she has a constitutional right to use cannabis to treat her Crohn’s disease. Banda self-published a book and posted…

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Child Custody Case In Garden City Stirs Medical Marijuana Debate

The case of a medical marijuana activist in Garden City who lost custody of her son after the boy spoke up at a school anti-drug event has stirred legalization advocates.

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He saw his son lying dead, shot by sovereign citizens

SPRINGFIELD, MO.  Although nearly five years have passed, telling the story hasn’t gotten any easier for Bob Paudert. But here was the former police chief of West Memphis, Ark., standing before dozens of law enforcement officers to describe the day that turned his life upside-down and to hopefully prevent such a tragedy from ever occurring…

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Hazy on hookah

Kansas legislators are trying to determine what they should do, if anything, to regulate hookah. But first, several of them have to determine exactly what hookah is.

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Kansas law may hamper participation in survey

For more than 20 years, Kansas secondary students have taken a survey to track alcohol and drug abuse. But a new law requiring parents to give written permission to allow their children to take the survey is affecting the survey data, and those who use it say it could be more challenging to obtain funds…

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