A resident reported about 20 police officers and a tactical vehicle outside the building before sunrise. From The London Free Press by Dale Carruthers August 12 2026 ONEIDA – An early-morning raid on a north London apartment building is linked to an investigation into an alleged drug-making operation on this Indigenous…
Dispensing Freedom
From Frequency by Bill MacCuish July 15 2026 Listen to the podcast here. A Cannabis store owner in a Cape Breton First Nation is speaking out after the province recently announced higher fines and new offences for sellers and buyers in the illegal market. A person selling cannabis in Nova…
From APTN by Cierra Bettens May 15 2026 Amid RCMP raids on unlicensed cannabis dispensaries in Mi’kma’ki, some First Nations leaders are calling for changes to Canada’s Cannabis Act. This week on InFocus, APTN online reporter Jesse Staniforth, who wrote a story about what some leaders are calling for to clarify the…
Retired Canadian senator Dan Christmas pushing for Cannabis Act changes From CBC News by Tom Ayers May 11 2026 Membertou First Nation is pressing ahead with its own cannabis law, amid a Nova Scotia crackdown on unlicensed retail outlets and federal government indifference over self-government rights. Retired Canadian senator Dan…
From CP24 via The Canadian Press May 8 2026 FREDERICTON — New Brunswick’s Indigenous Affairs minister says he isn’t worried a recent series of raids by the RCMP in three different provinces will derail his negotiations with First Nations to improve controls over the sale of cannabis products. The April…
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…
From APTN by Jesse Staniforth May 1 2026 ‘After eight long years, we’re still dealing with the same issues,’ Dan Christmas tells senate committee. Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples listens to testimony by retired Senator Dan Christmas of Membertou First Nation discussing Indigenous issues in cannabis legalization on April 29,…
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…