Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas and the City Council voted to strike marijuana possession from the city code and eliminate penalties. In some parts of the city that decriminalizes the drug.

Based on an intensive investigation by the Brown County Sheriff's Office Drug Task Force, a search warrant was applied for ...

A sign encouraging voters to vote for Amendment 3 which legalizes recreational marijuana use in Missouri sits near a sidewalk at St. Andrew's Episcopal church which was a polling location in ...

Kansas City officials were working to lessen the penalties for marijuana possession even before 2020. In 2017, voters agreed to reduce the fee for anyone who possessed less than 35 grams of weed ...

However, Missouri has legal medical marijuana. Regardless, Kansas City has removed punishments for cannabis possession from city code. But state law still bans possession without a medical card.

Kansas has many legitimate policy questions regarding marijuana, but — bluntly — imprisoning non-violent offenders in state prisons for mere possession does not top that list.

The move wouldn’t legalize marijuana in Kansas City, but would reduce the city penalties for being in possession of a small amount of it. “This is a very big deal,” said supporter Jaimie Cacz.

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas legislators aren’t ready to declare that marijuana possession never should be a felony, rejecting proposals Monday to lower penalties for third-time offenders and to ...

President Joe Biden pardoned simple marijuana possession federal charges and urged Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly to do the same at a state level.

The same rhetoric from opponents and legislators.” In 2021, the Kansas House passed a medical marijuana bill with bipartisan support, but it was never taken up by the Senate.

Kansas has many legitimate policy questions regarding marijuana, but—bluntly—imprisoning non-violent offenders in state prisons for mere possession does not top that list.