From Cannabis & Tech Today May 6 2024 Rob Pero is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on bringing the cannabis industry to Indigenous communities. Through various endeavors, including helping bring advocacy groups like the Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association and the Indigenous Business Group to life, he strives to honor his heritage and Ojibwe…
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From Living Snoqualmie by Melissa Grant April 18 2024 Fireweed Cannabis Company, a retail cannabis store owned by the Above it All Corporation, a separate business entity of the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, today announced the grand opening celebration for the new dispensary on 4/20/24 at 37500 SE North Bend Way, Suite…
From Forbes by Lindsey Bartlett April 11 2024 Indigenous women are reclaiming their heritage through weed. Reservations and the Native Americans who inhabit them walk a tightrope, balancing sovereignty with government relations. Tribes exist beyond the bounds of state lines, one reality that complicates the cannabis legalization matter even more.…
Decision in case of Chris Googoo means treaty rights challenge in provincial court will not be heard From CBC by Richard Cuthbertson April 5 2024 A constitutional challenge by a councillor for a Nova Scotia First Nation who has claimed a treaty right to sell cannabis will not go ahead…
In an interview with Dispensing Freedom, Mr. Durfee stated that when the Halifax Regional Police/RCMP – led by Detective Constable Jeffrey Seebold – raided Amu Leaf, the officers displayed significant “ignorance and racism” in their conduct. Durfee says that the officers “ripped all of our treaty materials off the walls and shredded them, tore down all our signage from the walls, and smashed all of our security cameras.”
The accused say they trace their roots to a long-forgotten First Nation that never signed a treaty with the federal government and so are exempt from its laws From The Sudbury Star by Harold Carmichael January 19 2024 A long-forgotten First Nation community was once a thriving group that spoke…
The 10 are facing cannabis-related charges laid from 2019 to 2021 in a case being heard in Sudbury From The Sudbury Star by Harold Carmichael January 17 2024 Ten Indigenous Ontarians – including a man from the Wahnapitae First Nation in the Sudbury area – are expected to argue in…
There is a new sovereign Indigenous cannabis store open in south-east Ottawa. The Red Roots Trading Co.(formally known as Medicine Wheel Natural Healing – Ottawa) has not only rebranded its flagship store at 196 Beechwood Ave in Vanier, but has now opened up a new location at 1990 Russell Road in Ottawa.
Outcome could have broader implications for how pot is sold on and off First Nations From CBC by Aya Dufour January 15 2024 Although the 10 defendants who logged into a virtual Superior Court of Justice trial on Monday are from different areas of Ontario, they have two things in common: they’re Indigenous, and…
From Stratcann by David Brown December 8 2023 The owners of a chain of cannabis stores that operate on First Nation land in Canada had one of their stores appropriated by a BC First Nation in 2020. The Indigenous Bloom chain of stores has operated cannabis stores at various times…