By Eli Ridder 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. 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. This report by The Canadian…
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