From Alleged Fake Texts to ‘Dumpster Fire,’ Keeping up with Oklahoma’s Wild Path to Medical Cannabis

There was a time not so long ago — actually, only about a month — that things were going swimmingly for the pro-medical cannabis crowd in Oklahoma. Voters overwhelmingly agreed with a ballot initiative that called for the state to legalize and regulate cannabis sales for medical purposes. Then, when Oklahoma bureaucrats took the wheel, things got…  messy.

The head of the pharmacy board resigned, the top former Health Department lawyer is being investigated for allegedly making up threats against her, the attorney general got involved, a cannabis group admitted to misleading its followers about the number of signatures it had collected for a legalization ballot initiative, two lawsuits were filed, another new lawsuit was filed yesterday challenging the state’s latest batch of rules … and, yes, even more.