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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Kansas woman faces prison and loses son after he tells classmates medical marijuana saved mom’s life 🌿Kansas woman faces prison and loses son after he tells classmates medical marijuana saved mom’s life
Kansas mother Shona Banda is unable to see her child and faces decades in prison after authorities confiscated marijuana from her Garden City home in March.
On Friday, the state of Kansas charged Banda with “five felony counts of possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, manufacturing Tetrahydrocannabinol, an oil extracted from marijuana, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and one count of child endangerment,” the Washington Post reports.
Banda began using medical marijuana about five years ago to treat Crohn’s disease,according to the Kansas City Star. Symptoms of the condition include severe diarrhea, weight loss, and malnutrition. Crohn’s can be physically debilitating and even life-threatening. Before she began cannabis treatments, Banda “walked with a cane and often couldn’t get off the couch.”
“I spent years raising my children from a couch, not being able to move much,” Banda says. “I wasn’t able to be a proper mother when I was sick....
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