{"id":1674,"date":"2019-12-10T19:49:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T19:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcannamag.com\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2021-03-16T06:38:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T13:38:53","slug":"from-brownies-to-pot-roast-missouri-is-learning-how-to-get-medical-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcannabismagazine.com\/from-brownies-to-pot-roast-missouri-is-learning-how-to-get-medical-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"From brownies to pot roast. Missouri is learning how to get medical marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Lyon, serif; font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;\">Patrice Harris made a pan of brownies on Friday with a special ingredient: a chunk of golden-colored butter with a pungent herbal fragrance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">Cannabis butter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">Harris, a hairstylist who works out of her split-level home in a Kansas City suburb, isn\u2019t the only person in the house now legally using marijuana as medicine. Her 90-year-old mother, Ernestine Wilford, a gray-haired slip of a woman who has dementia, uses it too.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Lyon, serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\">Harris has videos on her cellphone that show her mom\u2019s before and after.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; font-family: Lyon, serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\">Before cannabis: Wilford lay curled up in a fetal position on a bed, uncommunicative, averse to touch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">After: She\u2019s standing in the living room lifting light hand weights and walking through an airport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">As of Friday, the state of Missouri had approved 23,409 applications for medical marijuana cards. More than 7,600 of those people were also approved as cultivators and can now legally grow it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">That means Missourians have been legally self-medicating for months, long before any state-licensed dispensaries will open.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">They are smoking joints and bowls of cannabis, eating cannabis-infused roast and potatoes \u2014 a new meaning for \u201cpot roast\u201d \u2014 and whipping up<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--lc); -webkit-text-decoration: var(--ld); text-decoration: var(--ld); outline: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.magicalbutter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener noreferrer\">cannabis butter with the Magical Butter Machine contraption.<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>They are young parents, veterans, baby boomers and senior citizens, many seeking relief from chronic pain and anxiety.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">Moms are swapping information in private Facebook groups. People are walking into head shops for the first time and gathering in VFW halls to find out how to get an ID card from the state of Missouri, which they can only do online.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">Jeremy Anderson, a 34-year-old veteran who lives in Johnson County, Missouri, got his ID card early in the process. He proudly declares: \u201cI was patient No. 322, one of the originals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">He also paid the $100 fee to legally grow his own cannabis at home. He built a room-within-a-room in his home and a few days ago posted photos of his bodacious, leafy plants on Instagram with a string of hashtags. #Breakthestigma. #Plantsoverpills. #Legalgrower. #Notforsale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">Using marijuana as medicine brings a steep learning curve for people who\u2019ve never used \u2014 what\u2019s a \u201cbudtender\u201d? \u2014 and there\u2019s a lot of networking going on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">The people who spent years trying to get Missouri to legalize medical marijuana report a buzz of excitement over the dispensaries coming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">But<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--lc); -webkit-text-decoration: var(--ld); text-decoration: var(--ld); outline: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/business\/health-care\/article238091139.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener noreferrer\">licenses for dispensaries won\u2019t be issued until about Jan. 24<\/a>, Missouri\u2019s Department of Health and Senior Services\u2019 Section for Medical Marijuana Regulation announced Thursday. Earlier talk suggested that would happen by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">Until those businesses are open, there is no legal way for cardholders to get marijuana unless they or a caregiver grow it themselves \u2014 an expensive endeavor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">\u201cThey\u2019re kinda out of luck,\u201d said Jessica Kelly, communications director for NORML KC, the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--lc); -webkit-text-decoration: var(--ld); text-decoration: var(--ld); outline: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/norml.org\/chapters\/item\/w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener noreferrer\">local chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">But many aren\u2019t waiting.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"box-sizing: content-box;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: inherit; outline: none;\">THE CARD THAT\u2019S NOT A CARD<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">Missouri voters<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--lc); -webkit-text-decoration: var(--ld); text-decoration: var(--ld); outline: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/article221150305.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"follow noopener noreferrer\">passed the constitutional amendment<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>allowing medical marijuana more than a year ago, but the health department didn\u2019t begin taking applications from patients and caregivers until June 28. Since then, people report that they have received their cards within days and give the department high marks for being so quick. There seems to be little grumbling so far about how the state has rolled out the program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">\u201cPatients in general report that they are having a very easy time navigating the medical marijuana program and are finding it to be very accessible, which you can also tell by the high patient numbers being reported by the state,\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">The state doesn\u2019t actually send out medical marijuana cards. But the IDs can be printed out. Some patients have several laminated copies to keep in their home and car.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">The learning curve is reportedly sending some people to their local libraries asking for help using a computer. The health department says it will have patient guidebooks explaining all the regulations soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">\u201cThere have been reports that some elderly patients and rural patients without good internet access are having a hard time navigating the online-only program since they have to upload their physician certification, other documents, and a recent picture into the DHSS portal,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cThere\u2019s a technological learning curve some are having issues with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">She tells seniors to ask their grandchildren for help.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">Harris and her longtime friend Lonnie Bush, who owns a gym in Raytown, are working to get information about the ID cards out into Kansas City\u2019s African American community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">\u201cThey want to know,\u201d said Harris, who invited friends to her dining room table to get help with the certification process from a local osteopath \u2014 one of the few medical providers willing to sign off on medical marijuana applications.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: content-box; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Lyon, serif; max-width: 720px; padding: 0px 15px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; clear: none; outline: none; caret-color: #222222; color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\">\u201cMost black folks, most poor people, most low-income people are going to federally funded health centers, and (the centers) just can\u2019t give them the information. So they don\u2019t even know to apply because the information is not trickling down into our neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read this story by <strong>Lisa Guiterrez<\/strong> for <strong>Kansas City Star<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/business\/health-care\/article238001724.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: inherit; outline: none; width: 1px; height: 1px; color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: left; text-transform: none; overflow: hidden;\">Read more by <strong>Lisa Guiterrez <\/strong>for <strong>Kansas City <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/business\/health-care\/article238001724.html#storylink=cpy\">here:<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrice Harris made a pan of brownies on Friday with a special ingredient: a chunk of golden-colored butter with a pungent herbal fragrance. 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