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11-Year-Old Boy Removed From Mother For Defending Her Need For Medicinal Cannabis
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Yesterday Shona Banda, the Kansas medical marijuana activist whose home was searched after her 11-year-old son challenged anti-pot propaganda at school, failed to regain custody of the boy, who is now under the control of Child Protective Services (CPS). “I am not giving up,” Banda said after yesterday’s family court hearing. “I will get him, and I am not going to stop until I do.”
– From the Reason article: Police Say Kidnapping Medical Marijuana Activist’s 11-Year-Old Son Is for ‘the Child’s Well-Being’
Taking a child away from its parents is one of the most serious and emotionally traumatizing things you can do. Anyone tasked with such extraordinary power should take the responsibility extremely seriously. Unfortunately, that’s not how Child Protective Services (CPS) in Kansas sees things.
This is the story of an 11-year-old boy who bravely defended his mom’s used of cannabis oil during a anti-drug program at his school. His mother suffers from Crohn’s disease and uses cannabis oil to treat her symptoms. If she lived here in Colorado, or any of the other 23 states enlightened enough to permit adults to use a plant for medical purposes, her son (who obviously loves his mom enough to defend her in class) would still be with her.
This is just the latest example of bureaucrats who think they know best doing untold damage for no good reason. They are the ones who should be charged with abuse and neglect. Absolutely horrifying. From Reason:
Yesterday Shona Banda, the Kansas medical marijuana activist whose home was searched after her 11-year-old son challenged anti-pot propaganda at school, failed to regain custody of the boy, who is now under the control of Child Protective Services (CPS). “I am not giving up,” Banda said after yesterday’s family court hearing. “I will get him, and I am not going to stop until I do.”
The Garden City Police Department, which conducted the search of Banda’s home, insists that the state-sanctioned kidnapping is in the boy’s best interest. “The most important thing here is the child’s well-being,” said Capt. Randy Ralston. “That is why it is a priority for us, just because of the danger to the child.”
Yes, snatching away a young child from his mother because she uses a plant to treat a disease is clearly in the boy’s best interest. What a monumental moron this guy is.
Banda uses cannabis oil to treat the symptoms of Crohn’s disease, a fact that she openly discusses. But Kansas is not one of the 23 states that recognize marijuana as a medicine, so all use of cannabis is equally illegal there. Ralston emphasizes that “the items taken from the residence were within easy reach of the child,” although he cites no evidence that the boy was actually endangered by his mother’s medicine.
Banda has not been formally accused of any crimes yet. Ralston says the charges could include possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, misdemeanor or felony possession of drug paraphernalia, and child endangerment. Making cannabis oil also seems to qualify as manufacturinga controlled substance, a “drug severity level 1 felony” punishable by a prison sentence as long as 17 years.
The fact that it is even conceivable for her to be locked up for 17 years for this tells you all you need to know about American “justice,” but if you need more evidence:
Radley Balko over at the Washington Post also covered this despicable situation. Here’s an excerpt:
He also said the initial anti-drug program was put on entirely by the school — the police had no involvement. At that event Banda’s son apparently contradicted some of the claims made about marijuana. The school then contacted the child protection agency, which then contacted the police.
The absurdity here of course is that a woman could lose her custody of her child for therapeutically using a drug that’s legal for recreational use an hour to the west. It seems safe to say that the amount of the drug she had in her home was an amount consistent with personal use. (If she had been distributing, she’d almost certainly have been charged by now.)
Of course, this doesn’t stop the CPS for continuing to hold the child.
This boy was defending his mother’s use of a drug that helps her deal with an awful condition. Because he stuck up for his mother, the state arrested her and ripped him away from her. Even if he is eventually returned to his mother (as he ought to be), the school, the town, and the state of Kansas have already done a lot more damage to this kid than Banda’s use of pot to treat her Crohn’s disease ever could.
Exactly, and that’s the key point.
Banda’s supporters have now set up a legal defense fund page for her at Go Fund Me.
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Fuck the law and its thug enforcers.
"fuck the law" Works for Obama and he is head thug.
I usually enjoy your posts Ms but I must ask just exactlywhat you were thinking when you said" clean my system up"?
And why is it important that weed be "legal" b4 you would smoke it again?
First question: I stopped drinking too. If my child had a birth defect (he did not) I would at least know it was not because I was drinking and smoking dope. I am his mother, I owe him that.
Second question: I advocate strongly for legalization and I have a job where they can drug test me. If I am clean, they can't get me as easily (they would need to frame me). Better to be advocating within the law.
The law is wrong, I don't want them in my body at all, yours either. But I am a stronger advocate if I am legal.
I'd love to get high again. I will towards the end of my career, I think, acid or X too, at least once for each of those.
Do not question the brown shirts!
The state knows what is best!
SOMA the only approved pharmaceutical!
I hope there is a special place in Hell for these Kansas "officials/bureaucrats".
Nice work, Kansas. I smell a cannabis legalization effort in your near future. The worst part is the bureaucratic twerps. I understand you have to dot your Ts and cross your Is to work with the state, but do you have to seize upon this fine opportunity to proactively act like gestapo? The teacher should said: "I'm sure you are speaking hypothetically because if this were really going on in your home I would have to call the police. You heard about an anonymous person, right?" Repeat until the kid learns not to confess to crimes.
Time to update everyone's Crimes Against the American People Lists, treason lists.
NaPCriD - Names, Positions, Crimes, and Details.
If they can keep lists of us, then we shall keep lists of them.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
Justice is a detailed list.
Full spectrum cannabis oil can destroy growing tumours.
TRY IT.
Google Rick Simpson.
Haven't you heard ?
The state now owns your children in zio occupied Amerika.
Once a Government sees its chief responsibility to be stealing money from people to give to bankers so that they can build prisons to incarcerate the population not killed in foreign wars, economic decline is sure to follow.
Ah yes the nanny government deciding what's best for families by kidnapping and breaking them up.
Here's a good story too. America's future
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/571391/Girl-six-move-schools-classmate-...
The 6yr old rapist is of African descent.
Perhaps teaching sex-ed in preskool will fix the problem.
The truth is that the STATE owns the kid, WE ARE PROPERTY OF THE STATE.
Sick bastards at the school probably feel all good about themselves tearing apart a family while proclaiming to be protecting the kid. The best thing for that kid is to be with his parents.
When you exist in a litigious bureaucratic system like that, what can happen is everyone goes on a kind of rule following auto-pilot because no one wants to be sued or be responsible if "something goes wrong." I see it more than I care to admit.
I have participated in back room conversations where we knew following rules was going to hurt someone and be stupid. We all had to emerge with the same story, be on the same page, and trust each other. That too has risks.
"everyone goes on a kind of rule following auto-pilot"
Yes, I have seen it first hand. I have seen the effects of zero tolerance policies actually drive a kid to commit suicide out of fear of what was going to happen to him. Zero tolerance policies do nothing but remove the need for the "adults" in the room to think.
In her defense the teacher is probably legally required to report if there are drugs in the home. She should have told the child that he must keep names anonymous to protect the innocent, but it's hard to risk your livelihood when you can pretend you're just doing your job.
I guess the only way to have kids now is to hire a midwife that will shut her goddamned mouth, never get him a SSN, and never ever put Jr. in a public education camp.
Probably headed to one of Prince Andrew's islands.
Hemp oil is not patented and is therefore illegal.
The Garden City Police Department, school district, Child Protective Services, the court systems that enable them, and the analogous bodies of the State of Kansas have declared war on the people of those jurisdictions. At what point do we respond in kind?
Do it!!!
Think of life as a video game. Once you get capped you’ll see ‘the light’ which is the opening of another birth canal.
Maybe you’ll recycle as a Central Banker. ?
No, that "light" was just before you plopped into the round water with your siblings.
I'm calling on Governor Sam Brownback to reverse this Governmental overreach. 877-KSWORKS (877-579-6757)
The Republicans are always anti personal freedom. No medical marajuana, no marriage equality, no abortions, the list goes on. The GOP is anti freedom.
And the Dems are anti economic freedom: http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/Freedom_in_the_50_States.pdf
We are stuck, aren't we?
The democrats are always anti personal freedom. No guns, no free speech, no personal responsibility, no privacy, no jobs, no peace, no free markets, no diversity, no cash, no meat, no SUVs, no prayers, no choice of doctors, no cupcakes, no soft drinks, no choice of medical plans, no gasoline, no cheap coal, no democracy, no representation, no McDonalds, no Chic-filet, the list goes on.
The democrat socialists are the original anti-freedom fundamentalist control freaks who started slavery and lynched black people who didn't do what they said.
GOP has no diversity. Angry old white heterosexual Christian men. They can't die off fast enough to save this country. Luckily they are old and losing majority status.
Are you hanging out here until Ms. Jenner is on TV tonight? You fcking prog scumbag. You're missed at HuffPuff.
Lemme guess, GED on EBT? Hands up and $15 BrainStem. Oh, before I forget, how does Hillary's scat taste, yummy eh? ObamaTick bloodsucker.
That may be true but it is also true that progressive Democrats are in charge of the CPS bureaucracies and the jack-booted enforcement agencies that carry out the punishments. (No one loves the police state more than a good progressive.)
Broad brush. Lots of Repubs support legalization.
The mom falls alone.
Interesting. I know a person who works in psychiatry and this person was recently telling me that an illegal mexican woman's 5 year old boy tested positive for cocaine. All 10, yes 10, of her kids have been involved with CPS and this is the second time one has tested positive for cocaine. Not too long ago an 8 year old tested positive for cocaine and pot. Is this woman in jail? No, she is not. Have her kids been taken away? No, they have not. Is she being deported? No, she will continue to collect welfare.
God bless the United Shitstains of America.
fuck the fucking fuckers who would take a child from its family.
JewSA! JewSA! JewSA!
Only in the US, where the Jew knows best and sends in the goons. Get out while you can.
Pollution.
Someone ask the cop and the cps workers ON RECORD if they have EVER smoked pot. Tell them you will be doing an investigation on them so they had better not LIE!! My bet? Yeah, all of them have smoked pot. Legalize ALL drugs. Enough with the bullshit "war on drugs". Make being a lying thieving politician and cop illegal.
I fix their ass
I'd hide drugs at the teacher and principles home and make an anonymous call saying the principal is dealing drugs to the kids
Maybe hid a few sticks in her car and office too
Dickensian. All these child molesters making decisions in our best interests.
So why haven't they locked up Bill Clinton and why didn"t they take Chelsea away when they should have?
Four legs good, two legs bad
Whenever a good banking story is revealed; we have this type of blanket coverage bullshit, and Bruce Transjenner to keep the feeble mind distracted.
Maybe Shona Banda should talk to Tamah Clark, the "Fuck this court" lady.
The purpose is to give all children to the UN.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ru-nb9aDrs
This is just typical of the anti-American, socialist degenerate culture that the good ole US of A has been degraded to!
Dirty, filthy, immoral cannabis smoking HIPPIES!
Why couldn't this stupid woman take FDA approved drugs instead of taking a highly addictive and psychotic inducing drug like cannabis? Everyone knows that cannabis turns women into raving nymphomaniacs and men into homicidal psychopaths. The 1936 film "Reefer Madness" should be shown in all schools to deter the use of the "Devils Weed"!
Kansas is a beacon to the world for "saving" this boy from a life of debauchery and crime!
Harry Jacob Anslinger
Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
There is no guarantee that living in Colorado would prevent the stromtroopers from kicking the door in and seizing the child. Because after all, they have taught the boy that pot is evil, and adequate brainwashing will convince him of the evils of his mother too.
Sue the Bastards if anything happens to her child. Is that where that Pedifile Billionaire that owns that Island gets his Victims? The System with all the Minnons, Pedifiles and Government Workers need a reality check. Many are getting to wear targets for what they do. A mass demonstration could get her son back and tell the rest of the Sheeple to
OPEN THEIR EYES......, they could be "NEXT".
I don't smoke.
When we was growin up we was so poor that ma hadda make do by using moldy rye bread in our sammiches.
Whoa! Didja just see that! Was far out man!
This is the prohibition era shit of our time, in 30 years they will look back at us like we were savages for trying to keep Weed illegal lol. . . stories will be told to grandchildren about how in order to smoke weed our generation had to hide behind chinese resteraunts at night.
This just shows you how violent and wrong the state is. . . the entire notion of government is an afront to civilization.
Try staying off weed. Your the fools who will get hit with the same taxation as cigarettes and alcohol. In Ohio, they were charging e-check to subsidize artist. About two years later, the cigarette companies were subsidizing the manditory e-check car for free.
Fucking cocksucking big gubbermint.....run by a bunch of shit eating assholes.
I'm sure she voted for the Hoax and Chains she got...to be fair, even 'conservatives" voted for the Chosenite approved republican candidate.
We must find out where their children live, play and go to school.
This will continue until the governmnt fears us.
Your assessment is logical, historically based, and morally defensible. It is the only way remaining.
They unite families of illegals .... they bring the children to their parents .... from Central America .... they break up families of legal citizens ?
Who are these Diablos? They are going to Hell for sure! You would Never hear of something like this happening en Mexico if you lived a Million Lifetimes!
Child Protective Services .... can "Fast Track" your kids .... out of your life .... in a heartbeat !
Faster than 2,346 ft/s?
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
Taking your kids away ....should be more difficult .... than impeaching Obama !
We Koresh'd some folks......for the children of course
There is a very hot corner of hell for the police, prosecutors, and ancillary scum that would take a sick person's medicine at the point of a gun.
All of this cop madness you see lately is partly because the even the cops are waking up to what they have coming to them in this world or the next.
ah Kansas. Still stuck in the stone age.
10 years from now we'll be laughing about stuff like this.
through tears, of course.
for the inquisitive ZH'er there is a book:
http://www.jackherer.com/thebook/
thanks Mike.
When will we learn....
http://www.thetruthaboutthelaw.com ....tiz funny too.
If the child is blond he is very valuable in some dark and very preverted quarters.
She should have moved to Colorado.
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We can use hemp rope to hand the bastards.
America is becoming more like Nazi Germany by the day. It's not just an occasional outrageous news story like this one that drives this point home, no, the trend is massive, constant and overwhelming, like an tidal wave. Only the most blind and incredulous can not see it now.
I pray the kiddo grows up a John Conner or Guido Fawkes....
Fascism is an incurable disease. It cannot be destroyed... Once infected the nation will destroy itself. Once destroyed it simply jumps to another nation as it did from Germany to the usa, uk and most western nations.
We're in the second stage right now with government seizing all property and power. Kidnapping this child and others is an open display of fascism. If not stopped third stage will bring massive destruction.
The first step to any recovery is eliminating "IT'S THE LAW" syndrome where any law passed by a feral government is lawful. The constitution attempted to do just that but all governments eventually find excuses to bypass their constitutional bylaws. The Articles were much better, not having a strong central government at all.
Central Authority does not work whether it be a central bank or a central government or centralizeed computing. The human power quest over other humans is ever present which is why they need to be defeated in the beginning,,, not towards the end.
Fascism does not go quietly into the night. It will eventually be an ugly contest between the somewhat good and very evil. The longer the delay, the better chance evil has. This is not bible thumping stuff,,, it is historical reality,,,
only this time humans are risking the entire planets existence. If you truly want a better life for your posterity,,, put government in its proper place.
Put government in its place? How about "recognize that government is a blatant fiction" (doesn't exist), then exterminate human predators as any sane sentient being would do to any dangerous animal species that hangs around your neighborhood.
The only place for so-called "government" is... gone.
And yes, "central authority" is WRONG and DANGEROUS. But that's true whether you are talking about the center of the world, center of a "nation", center of a "state", center of a "county", center of a "city", center of a "neighborhood", or even... center of a "family".
The main problem is not "central", the main problem is "authority", which is another fiction. So let me fix it for you. So-called authority is a fiction. It doesn't exist. No human has authority over any other... because they cannot. The entire notion is impossible, but that doesn't stop human beings from accepting the bogus concept into their brains, and letting it motivate their thinking in endless ways for a lifetime. Which invariably leads to the same place... destruction.
It is axiomatic that during the fall of an empire the goverment turns on its people.
Garden City Police = Government
From CDC.gov:
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Secondhand Smoke Harms Children and AdultsChilden exposed to 2nd hand smoke, let's guess at 10% of the number, result in 250,000 deaths. C'mon Garden City Cops... remove all kids where they are exposed to risk of death in their homes by mom's smoking. At least you can point to some real statistics about risk when you say it's all about saving the child.
what a disgusting bitchy school to snitch on mom like that