Sipekne'katik First Nation members protest along a highway in N.S. on April 2.Ted Pritchard/The Canadian Press
A Nova Scotia highway is up and running this morning after it was blocked by First Nations protesters following an RCMP raid on a cannabis shop.
Highway 4 through Potlotek First Nation in Cape Breton has reopened, RCMP say, and a Potlotek band councillor says the protest is over.
Nova Scotia highways blocked as First Nation protests over cannabis crackdown
RCMP said it raided a shop Thursday morning, arrested two men and seized cannabis products.
It marks the latest in an ongoing dispute between Mi’kmaw governments and a provincial government cracking down on unregulated marijuana.
The province says cannabis sales aren’t a treaty right because only Nova Scotia Liquor Corp. is allowed to sell the product.
Mounties also said Thursday evening that Highway 102 near Shubenacadie, N.S., had reopened following a blockade there.