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Colorado marijuana appears to be replacing marijuana supplies from Mexico and homegrown marijuana, and has "permeated nearly all parts of Kansas," the Kansas Attorney General's Office said Monday. Derek Schmidt's office gathered information from local law enforcement officials and surveyed...

Motorists from states where marijuana is legal can breathe a bit easier on their next cross-country road trip thanks to a federal appeals court ruling yesterday. In a 2-1 decision, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled that it's unconstitutional for police to stop vehicles just...

Organizers are closing in on their goal of collecting 2,300 signatures to get marijuana decriminalization on the November ballot in Kansas City. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws' Kansas City branch (NORML KC) has been gathering signatures since June. Under the...

Organizers are closing in on their goal of collecting 2,300 signatures to get marijuana decriminalization on the November ballot in Kansas City. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws' Kansas City branch (NORML KC) has been gathering signatures since June. Under the...

Parents, patients and supporters of hemp oil use are telling Kansas lawmakers to not impede on their right to get the medication of their choice. Bleeding Kansas protested at the Statehouse Wednesday against Senate Bill 489, the Hemp Oil Bill. The bill would establish a registration for...

Reversing his original order in a case involving five children taken by the Department of Children and Families, a Riley County, Kansas judge has allowed use of medical cannabis by the children's parents. Writing that visitation with the children can continue even if the parents test positive...

Kansas Democratic Rep. John Wilson never thought he'd take up marijuana as a legislative cause, but the struggles of a family in his district to get medical hemp preparations to treat their son's seizures changed his mind. Wilson, of Lawrence, is pushing for a House measure that would allow...

A western Kansas woman is suing the state and some of the agencies involved in questioning and removing her 11-year-old son from her home after he spoke up at school about her marijuana use. The Wichita Eagle reports that Shona Banda's federal lawsuit alleges the state and the agencies are...

A Colorado man was in the capital city on Thursday to talk with lawmakers about the benefits of industrial hemp. Rick Trojan, founder of the Hemp Road Trip, was at the statehouse today. His group is advocating for the passage of the Industrial Hemp Farming Act before Congress in...

Rep. Willie Dove (R-Bonner Springs) has introduced House Bill 2634, The Alternative Crop Research Act; legalizing industrial hemp in Kansas. The bill authorizes the Kansas Department of Agriculture and state universities to begin research into planting, cultivating, processing and analysis of...

A Kansas Senate committee wasn't ready Tuesday to endorse a narrow medical marijuana proposal, even though its members approved a measure for reducing criminal penalties for first- and second-time pot possession. The Republican-dominated Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee showed its...

The Kansas Statehouse isn't known as a place sympathetic to liberalizing drug laws, but then came the stories of Kansas families with hurting children. Tiffanie and Kevin Krentz of Topeka, for example. At 6 months old, their son J.J. suffered his first seizure. It lasted 45 terrifying...

Navy veteran Raymond Schwab started treating symptoms from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder with a slew of prescription medications that he said nearly ruined his life. But he found relief in cannabis therapy that helped him to get a degree and be a more effective parent, Schwab told a panel of...

When the 11-year-old son of Topeka business owner Tiffanie Krentz began suffering from seizures shortly after he was born, the family began administering 16 anti-epileptic medications and now he's addicted to them, according to testimony the mother gave to Kansas senators Wednesday. Krentz...

What if, when the Taylor Forge metal fabrication plant in Garnett shuts down this month as previously announced and puts an end to 28 local jobs, its former employees were able to drive across town to find comparable employment at a local plant that processes locally-grown industrial hemp? And...

In a house at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in a suburb of Colorado Springs, a "marijuana refugee" who may spur a change in Kansas law is now 4 years old and improving cognitively. Otis Reed, whose parents moved from Baldwin City to Colorado in search of a cannabis cure for the dozens of...

The family of a Gulf War veteran suffering PTSD lost custody of their youngest kids after moving from Colorado, where treatment with medical marijuana is legal, to Kansas, where pot is illegal. They have seen their children three times since last April. Veteran Raymond Schwab and his wife...

Last month, the federal government sided with Colorado in a lawsuit filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by Oklahoma and Nebraska, which claim that our marijuana laws should be dismantled due to residual harm being caused across state lines. Kansas hasn't joined the suit, but its attorney...