Nathan Rees is both a former police chief and a current cannabis medical dispensary proprietor.  This week he played an important role in bringing together medical patients and law enforcement in a very important training for cops and communities.
  The Muskogee regional airport was transformed into a road course for demonstrating the impairment impact of 3 subgroups of drivers:

•  those who text (or otherwise are distracted) while driving
• those consuming liquor, then driving
• those consuming cannabis(marijuana), then driving

 Nathan is comfortable with lots of folks, including the cops who interact with them. That made him a crucial part of making this a successful day.
  Norma Sapp & Chris Moe were there to observe and report.
  We're posting both Nathan's article (posted to social media) and the video report that Chris and Norma posted.

  The legal office of the US Dept of Agriculture gave a red light to the Pawhuska Police dept. and District Attorney Mike Fisher. At the same time, the state of Colorado and the medical company who purchased the truckload of industrial hemp got a green light to file a federal lawsuit against the state of Oklahoma and the city of Pawhuska for the actions of the local police, last January.  District Attorney Mike Fisher (just sworn in on January 1st) is seeking a life sentence for 2 of the 4 members of the trucking entourage.
  Fisher believes his confiscated payload is not legal industrial hemp because some preliminary field tests could not guarantee that it's THC content is limited to 0.3% .  Fisher's rationale is that any exceedance of 0.3% then turns the payload into a Schedule 1 federally banned substance, without an Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Business license. Oklahoma House Majority Floor Leader, Jon Echols, wrote the state legislation on industrial 'trace' hemp which DA Fisher is supposed to be enforcing.

  A long-time Pawhuska resident says firefighter Lloyd Arnce  hit her and attempted to steal her smartphone, this past Friday. 
  Tjuana Kelley Boulanger was in Veteran's Park with her family & friends, including children. She was lending her assistance to a citizens effort to recall members of the local city council and collection petitions.
  She says that while they were eating lunch in the park, several municipal agency personnel swarmed the park and the Animal control officer blocked the rear parking lot entrance.  Two police dept. officers then came in, along with a member of the local fire dept.
  When Boulanger refused to cease her petition gathering, she asserted that state law bars the city from even creating such ordinances to ban constitutional free speech and assembly; and the right of petitioning the govt. for redress of grievance further guarantees her rights.
  The lead female officer politely backed down from demands and Boulanger went back to her lunch table.
  The two officers talked with the other responders and then left the park while Ms. Boulanger wished them a blessed day.
  But then the remaining firefighter got irritated that Boulanger's live social media video feed caught his image. 
That's when he started yelling as he crossed the parking lot.  The video clearly shows him grabbing at her and attempting to take her phone. He eventually gives up and walks away.
The trauma of all this happening to Boulanger and in front of a young girl was clearly impacting. She tells the viewers;
"The war is on! If I die today, I die making change."

  We contacted Boulanger over the weekend and asked what she plans to do about this. She told us that she is needing good civil rights council and she plans to file a police report.
  Boulanger wants a judge to order the city agencies not to interfere with petition gathering or harass the citizens involved in it. She wants the accosting firefighter charged with battery and attempted theft. He must immediately be suspended from the fire dept. while awaiting trial.  
 Below you'll see the video of her live feed when the Pawhuska agencies tried to shut down her petition gathering.
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  Rex Wikel, the man who may have masterminded the overthrow of the Police Chief, in Pawhuska, Oklahoma; is now resigned from the city's most powerful office.

  On Wednesday, after an emergency city council meeting, Wikel was out as city manager, and a new interim manager was swiftly hired. That interim manager was an administrative assistant last week. Tonya Bright now has vast authority to set the city back to order. She directed the city attorney to resolve the police chief matter. Within minutes Silva emerged from a private meeting an announced his return to the helm of the police dept.
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  Just last Friday morning, Wikel was preparing to take over as city manager for the retired bank executive who was serving in the role for the past couple years. Larry Eulert's term was ending at the end of June, but his replacement was former Police Chief, Rex Wikel. When Eulert hired the younger former Tulsa Police officer, & former Osage Nation police chief; Wikel was evidently not a fan of the changes made to Wikel's former dept.