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High schools in the Kansas City metro have seen students bring guns and drugs to school at the same time gun homicides and drug overdoses have been increasing on both sides of the state line.
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Marijuana dispensaries across Missouri are expected to begin selling to recreational users by next month. Education experts say young people are capable of having serious conversations about cannabis and other substances — it's the adults who usually make it awkward.
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Under Amendment 3, known as Legal Missouri 2022, some state marijuana offenses could be expunged either automatically or through an appeal process. However, critics of the amendment say the provisions pick and choose who are forgiven.
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Parson has also been outspoken against a November ballot issue that would amend the Missouri Constitution to legalize recreational marijuana and expunge the records of nonviolent offenders.
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The pardons will be done through an administration process to be developed by the Justice Department, administration officials told reporters; it will cover citizens and lawful permanent residents.
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In 2021, drug overdose deaths increased by 43% from the previous year in Kansas and constituted the No. 1 cause of death among adults aged 18 to 44 in Missouri. An addiction treatment center in Paola, Kansas, that opens its doors this month hopes to help reverse those trends.
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The Kansas City chapter of Full Circle wants to help young people find enthusiasm for addiction recovery.
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If passed in November, Amendment 3 would legalize adult-use marijuana in Missouri. But advocates say that some specifics in the amendment are cause for worry and plan to fight against the measure.
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The Kansas City Police Department says officers have seen an increase in accidental fentanyl-related overdoses in individuals ages 15 to 24.
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From January 2019 to January 2020, 1,597 Missourians died from overdoses. Over the next 12 months, that number increased to 1,952, according to CDC data. However, a federal grant to help Missouri purchase and distribute naloxone has expired.
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Kansans with substance use problems say they are falling through the cracks of a legal system that’s more concerned with punishing them than getting them sober. And, a transmission line that would deliver wind energy from southwest Kansas to other parts of the country has some Missouri farmers concerned about the use of eminent domain to complete the project.
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Joe Biden granted clemency for the first time in his presidency Tuesday. He focused his attention commuting the sentences of people convicted of low-level, nonviolent drug offenses. Five are from Missouri.