From NUG Magazine by Steve May 2 2026 As the landscape of cannabis legalization continues to evolve across the United States, Indigenous communities are becoming significant players in the discussion, increasingly shaping policies not only for their own benefit but also as a broader response to historical injustices. While many…
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From High Times by Rob Pero April 28 2026 The most exciting future for cannabis in the U.S. isn’t coming out of Congress or corporate boardrooms. It’s happening in Indigenous communities across North America. Tribal Nations are organizing and making moves to destigmatize plant medicine, build sustainable and generational wealth,…
From News Ghana April 23 2026 The Advocacy Commission of the Rastafari Council Ghana has laid out a five-point policy roadmap calling for the full decriminalisation of cannabis and its repositioning as a driver of economic growth, with projections suggesting the sector could generate up to GH¢15.5 billion annually if…
Millbrook and Sipekne’katik First Nations partially block one of the province’s busiest highways From CBC April 2 2026 More than a dozen RCMP officers were trapped behind a barricade and traffic was rerouted on a major Cape Breton highway Thursday morning as community members protested a police raid on a…
From The Eastern Door by Marcus Bankuti and Steve Bonspiel, March 27 2026 If we offer you two knocks in the arm, and you ask for none, then naturally one is a good compromise, right? We’re seeing the results of that logic play out now with the cancellation of a…
From APTN via The Canadian Press March 26 2026 The legal case of a Mi’kmaq man charged with selling unlicensed cannabis is moving ahead to a constitutional challenge. A provincial court judge has determined that Thomas Durfee’s treaty rights are not to be considered in the initial stage of the…
‘Enforcement bodies … are not permitted to carry out enforcement activities on Membertou lands,’ says document From the CBC courtesty of Devin Stevens The Canadian Press March 15 2026 An Indigenous government in Nova Scotia has passed a new resolution saying the province and RCMP have no right to carry…
From CP24 by Laura Seben March 6 2026 Numerous unlicensed cannabis dispensaries have been shutdown in Toronto following multiple police investigations. In a release on Friday, Toronto police said on Feb. 26, officers located a suspect working as an employee at an illegal dispensary in the area of Eglinton Avenue East…
Justice minister says new bill also allows peace officers to enforce cannabis rule From CBC via The Canadian Press by Lyndsay Armstrong February 25 2026 Nova Scotia’s former justice minister and a legal expert are raising concerns about legislation tabled Wednesday to strengthen enforcement of cannabis rules amid a crackdown…
From MMJdaily February 4 2026 In much of the US, cannabis is still framed as a regulatory puzzle. For Indigenous nations, it is also a question of sovereignty, jurisdiction, and how economic development intersects with community responsibility. On the eastern end of Long Island, Little Beach Harvest operates as a…