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Legalization has traveled a route that looks, from a distance, like the red-and-blue maps that frame many a US political conversation. But look closer, and the trend isn’t so clear.

People angry about sweeping changes made to a voter-approved medical cannabis law called on the state’s highest court to rein in the Legislature’s power to alter ballot measures.

The ultimatum is an indication of the mounting frustration that medical cannabis still hasn’t reached patients nearly four years after lawmakers OK’d the system.

“We’ll be back at this,” Senate President Steve Sweeney said at a news conference Monday after the vote was called off. “Anybody who thinks this is dead is wrong.”

That doesn’t mean it’s dead. But it does leave advocates with a tougher road ahead.

Patients have been waiting nearly four years. But one company finally has the go-ahead to grow cannabis.

This week in cannabis news: Poll numbers climb, New York faces a critical legalization deadline, and David Downs tries out California’s ‘Costco of Cannabis.’

Legislative leaders are “making progress, but we have a ways to go,” Gov. Phil Murphy said this week.

The nation’s largest drugstore chain is selling CBD products in 8 states. Meanwhile, independent CBD stores are being raided by police in Texas.

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