BRICKBATS.

• Author: Oliver, Charles
• Position: Cannabis use during Alaska Hempfest; "Christopher Robin" ban in China; permit for wheelchair ramps

Organizers of the Alaska Hempfest in Wasilla are facing possible fines for allowing people to use cannabis at the festival. While marijuana is legal for recreational consumption in Alaska, state law bars its use in public. Nordica Friedrich, communication and music director for the festival, says the fines make no sense. "People would never go to a beer and barley wine festival and just talk about beer and barley wine and just look at pictures of it," she told the Associated Press.

Chinese officials have blocked the release of Disney's Christopher Robin in that country. The movie depicts the titular character, now an adult, getting a visit from his childhood friend Winnie the Pooh. Chinese censors have been cracking down on references to the comical bear on social media ever since critics of President Xi Jinping began mockingly pointing out his resemblance to the character.

Evelyn Strahle, 91, says she is trapped in her home after Prince George's County, Maryland, officials forced her son to tear down a wheelchair ramp he'd built in front of the house she shares with her 94-year-old husband. Officials say the son did not get the necessary permits.

A woman who was forced to give birth on the floor of the Macomb County, Michigan, jail issuing for violations of her civil rights. Jessica Preston was awaiting trial for driving on a suspended license. She says jail staff did not call for medical services until her baby was crowning. The county's attorney has responded that "there is no constitutional right to be born in a hospital, or any collateral right to be born outside a jail."

Two Department of Energy employees left radioactive material in their car when they stopped for the night at a San Antonio, Texas, hotel. The next morning, they found their car...