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    ThrumbolioAndy Cush
    1/14/16 4:37pm

    Huh. So Kansas carries OFF wayward sons.

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      Hip Brooklyn StereotypeThrumbolio
      1/14/16 4:39pm

      This deserves a lot of stars.

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      ThatFatScatCatThrumbolio
      1/14/16 4:40pm

      So, so many stars.

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    Captain_CrutchAndy Cush
    1/14/16 4:34pm

    So he gets to keep using pot and not have to raise the kids? Jackpot!

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      AlmightyPoopcatCaptain_Crutch
      1/14/16 4:53pm

      You magnificent bastard.

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      Captain_CrutchCaptain_Crutch
      1/14/16 4:55pm

      Full disclosure, I have 4-year-old twins and I totally need pot and/or Jesus. Not sure if this makes me less or more of a monster, but I figure it’s only fair to put my cards on the table. Luckily, I’m in California, where weed is easier to get than water.

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    BrtStlndAndy Cush
    1/14/16 4:36pm

    Just get him addicted to oxycontin instead and he’ll be a much better parent.

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      foolyooBrtStlnd
      1/14/16 4:38pm

      Addicted again. Is says he became addicted to heroin and kicked it.

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      BrtStlndfoolyoo
      1/14/16 4:39pm

      Well that’s clearly where he went wrong.

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    Hip Brooklyn StereotypeAndy Cush
    1/14/16 4:36pm

    Further evidence that snorting marijuanas destroys the American family.

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      This corn is special, Isn't it?Hip Brooklyn Stereotype
      1/14/16 4:40pm

      Marijuana won't ruin your life, but the government will if they catch you using it. Makes sense.

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      gmoatHip Brooklyn Stereotype
      1/14/16 4:59pm

      I started injecting Marijuanas last week, I am now on welfares and listen to Phish. Somebody help me!

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    Display NameAndy Cush
    1/14/16 4:35pm

    Is there anything Kansas does well?

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      FritoDisplay Name
      1/14/16 4:40pm

      They’ve mastered the art of stupid.

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      burner2020Display Name
      1/14/16 4:56pm

      Progressive Rock.

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    Cherith CutestoryAndy Cush
    1/14/16 4:40pm

    Kansas was also the state that sued a man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple for child support (in place of the parent because she’d received state support) because they don’t acknowledge gay adoption.

    Also, Kansas’s entire state budget goes toward making it 1950 again by science or magic.

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      imatworkdarnit2Cherith Cutestory
      1/14/16 4:59pm

      Just magic. No science in Kansas.

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    Sara-Slaughter607Andy Cush
    1/15/16 9:47am

    Honest question here

    So... what needs to happen for this shit to stop? Do we need Federal Decriminalization mandate? This is one of those instances where I can’t stand states’ power to act like assholes. It’s seriously becoming more and more like we need to live in an area that matches our progressive principles?

    So fucking stupid. Don’t live in Texas if you want easy access to reproductive services. Don’t live in Florida if you need Medicaid and are a single adult. Blah blah blah.... really??? Can’t we have UNIFORM RULES???

    For a person to have a Medical Card and to be 'illegal' in one state but hunky dory over state lines is FUCKING STUPID.

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      MyMostPreciousSara-Slaughter607
      1/15/16 1:52pm

      So... what needs to happen for this shit to stop?

      A complete overhaul of how CPS operates. Basically if you’re trying to regain custody and you’re in a different State, they will do anything and everything possible to NOT give back custody. The pot is just what they’re currently using as leverage.

      The goal of CPS is not, as is usually claimed, the safety of the kids. The actual goal of CPS is to keep the child in the Foster system and a Ward of the State for as long as possible.

      In this case, even if weed was fully legalized it wouldn’t change anything. With the “history of substance abuse” on his record, they’ll be able to keep his kids if he uses any substances, legal or not, prescription or not.

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      Sara-Slaughter607MyMostPrecious
      1/15/16 2:06pm

      See, here in NY it’s the opposite.

      It’s like trying to pull teeth to HAVE a child removed when there are obvious substance abuse issues in the home.

      My partner’s ex-wife was a heroin user and we went through absolute hell and back with CPS and the courts over trying to get my stepdaughter removed from her disgusting, shit-filled, prostituting home.

      18 calls it took to CPS. EIGHTEEN. Before they opened a submission for removal.

      Then we get to court on custody day, and my SD’s Guardian Ad Litem told me the mom ‘would not accept any changes’ to the current custody order and we might as well just roll with the punches because her parents are loaded and she had a team of lawyers that would have steamrolled us over the coals due to my partner having previous S.A. issues as well. She had the upper hand.

      Fuck this shit.

      Kids that are in actual danger of being neglected or hurt = Leave em put

      Kids who’s parents are medicating themselves to BE a better parent = Take them away.

      ARG

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    tom.blerschAndy Cush
    1/14/16 4:36pm

    Sorry, pot’s illegal in Kansas, and they had jurisdiction before the parents’ moved to CO. Kansas is actually “in the right” with this...

    ...in as much as Child Protective Services is ever “in the right” taking people’s kids on an unfounded accusation and not giving them back. The real story here shouldn’t be about legalized marijuana...it should be about the breathtaking scope of authority and lack of checks and balances that child protective services has in most states.

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      Cherith Cutestorytom.blersch
      1/14/16 4:48pm

      Well, doing something illegal isn’t actually enough to make you lose your kid. Lots of parents are addicts and get busted but don’t even get a visit from CPCS.

      And if it’s true that the original allegations were unsupported then there isn’t much justification for this. Legal or not. Their standard is supposed to be whether the child is at risk.

      Although I certainly agree with your final point.

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      Iwona Burgundatom.blersch
      1/14/16 5:49pm

      As a social worker, (no I do not work for CPS, CPS in fact has few people with degrees in social work as employees (I just hate it when I say I’m a social worker and the response is “oh so you take children away?”- yeah... No I’m in psych)) I say this case isn’t about marijuana, this is a highly misleading headline/presentation of the story... This is about the accusation of neglect/abandonment with a subsequent positive marijuana use (being illegal) for a previously admitted addiction with PTSD- let’s call shit what it is . I don’t know WHAT was happening there, but that combo is a set up for poor parenting and possible abuse.

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    The Once and Future KingAndy Cush
    1/14/16 4:37pm

    Kansas: the Linda Tripp of states.

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      Pending ApprovalAndy Cush
      1/14/16 4:33pm

      this sounds more like a fucked up family situation than a ‘make pot legal’ situation.

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        Rev Les CrowleyPending Approval
        1/14/16 4:52pm

        Yeah, you have to wonder, especially as we’re only hearing one side.

        Counterpoint: it’s Kansas.

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        Pending ApprovalRev Les Crowley
        1/14/16 5:34pm

        I have an adopted sister who’s mom was a meth dealer, and live in texas, you’d be surprised at how far states will let kids go on living with their parents before they get taken away. There has to be a lot more to this than “kids dad smokes pot, lets take the kids away”

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