Happy Easter, Peeps.

The prospects of the United Kingdom moving ahead with an expansion project for its medical cannabis program are bleak. What's even bleaker is the prospect of legal recreational cannabis. The U.K needs a push to do the right thing, and cannabis advocates need to apply this much-needed pressure for change to occur. It's not fair to the thousands of patients who are directly suffering from the absence of this expansion. Hopefully, the lawmakers will be influenced by the major cannabis reform developments in the U.S. since they have refused to be moved by the European medical cannabis programs making waves.

As illicit shops proliferated, the opening of legal dispensaries hit a snag, with months-long delays due to lawsuits, the intricate rule-making process, and the state's failure to fulfil its commitment to fund the leasing and refurbishing of the initial 150 licensed dispensaries. Currently, only 10 stores are operational with state assistance, while another 375 dispensaries, licensed for nine months or longer, remain closed.

With all the fun, frenzy, and chaos of the holiday season, it’s almost as if cannabis was MADE for the Christmas season.