Kansas

 Guardian UK: A dying cancer patient used cannabis to ease pain. His hospital called the police - ‘You’d think they would have shown compassion’: patient’s son decries Kansas police who issued citation as father suffered By Lois Beckett

While the police department later dropped the citation, which would have required the cancer patient to appear in court, reports of the incident fueled debate over the continued criminalization of cannabis in Kansas, one of the three US states that has not legalized the product in any context.