Kansas marijuana activist says state violated rights when son was taken

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Kansas marijuana activist says state violated rights when son was taken

In federal lawsuit Shona Banda claims state and its agencies infringed on her parenting, and police and school employees improperly questioned her son

Associated Press in Wichita, Kansas
Saturday 26 March 2016 16.15 EDT

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 possessing and using marijuana.

Shona Banda’s federal lawsuit, filed on Thursday, alleges the state of Kansas and its agencies deprived her of her civil rights to treat a debilitating condition that she says is Crohn’s disease, the Wichita Eagle reported.

The Garden City woman, 38, also claims officials have infringed on her parenting, and that local police and school employees improperly questioned her son without her permission.

Banda’s son was removed from her custody in March 2015, after authorities said he made comments during a drug-education program at his school that his mother and other adults at home were avid drug users.


Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/26/kansas-medical-marijuana-activist-shona-banda-federal-lawsuit

[billhicks76]

1. Officials Should Be Imprisoned For Life

No sympathy for the evil they do. Life is getting off easy as far as I'm concerned. Take their kids away I say.

[Alkene]

2. "...his mother and other adults at home were avid drug users."

And unqualified for parenting in 21st century Kansas...

[cannabis_flower]

3. I think that means

avid marijuana users. If you would have replaced that phrase with "avid beer drinkers" or "avid tobacco smoker" - no problem. What hypocritical laws we have!

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. One of the things that's the matter with Kansas. Reichwing-religious-Koch-hate mentality.

[pbmus]

5. Kansas is not a state that you want to try to

do anything other than praise God, kill deer, turkeys, coyote and gophers, and always carry your bible with you while you are doing those activities ....