State seizes 11-year-old, arrests his mother after he defends medical marijuana

Washington Post ^

[bigdaddy45]

On March 24, cannabis oil activist Shona Banda‘s life was flipped upside-down after her son was taken from her by the State of Kansas. The ordeal started when police and counselors at her 11-year-old son’s school conducted a drug education class. Her son, who had previously lived in Colorado for a period of time, disagreed with some of the anti-pot points that were being made by school officials. “My son says different things like my ‘Mom calls it cannabis and not marijuana.’ He let them know how educated he was on the facts,” said Banda in an exclusive interview with BenSwann.com. Banda successfully treated her own Crohn’s disease with cannabis oil.

After her son spoke out about medical marijuana, police detained him and launched a raid on Shona Banda’s home. “Well, they had that drug education class at school that was just conducted by the counselors… They pulled my son out of school at about 1:40 in the afternoon and interrogated him. Police showed up at my house at 3… I let them know that they weren’t allowed in my home without a warrant… I didn’t believe you could get a warrant off of something a child says in school.” Banda continued, “We waited from 3 o’clock until 6 o’clock. They got a warrant at 6 o’clock at night and executed a warrant into my home. My husband and I are separated, and neither parent was contacted by authorities before [our son] was taken and questioned.”

The police apparently found 2 ounces of cannabis oil in her home. She fears that the state will now attempt to take her son away. She has a custody hearing on Monday.

[ConservingFreedom]

How does the police get away with interrogating a kid without a parent or guardian?

It's to protect our precious bodily fluids.

[FunkyZero]

As with alcohol, there is no place for even casual use in the workplace. it's not only a efficiency issue, it's a huge stinking pile of liability and any employer should be able to instantly can an employee for being under the influence at work.

That being said, getting stoned or drunk on your own time shouldn't be anyone elses business but your own.

And for the record, I did drugs one time. I smoked some pot in college with my roommate. That was over 20 years ago. It was a bad experience I don't have any desire to repeat it, nor do I have any desire to demand other people be prohibited from using it if they decide to do so on their own personal time.

[ConservingFreedom]

nor do I have any desire to demand other people be prohibited from using it if they decide to do so on their own personal time.

I think they used to call that "freedom."

[no-s]

I have to agree. An obviously stoned/drunk executive really annoys me, especially when I need them to make decisions. Stress is real tho, but the only compelling case I've ever heard for that argument was a guy who had unloaded bombs every day when he was in Vietnam. In the business world he was a very twitchy guy when not medicated.