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Canada’s first Indigenous-owned cannabis producer releases first products to a First Nation retailer

Canada’s first Indigenous-owned cannabis producer releases first products to a First Nation retailer

By admin on May 2, 2021

A manager at Green Chief Naturals, licensed to operate by the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, confirms that they began carrying two varieties of dried cannabis from Seven Leaf on Friday, April 23. This appears to represent the first product from a federally licensed cannabis producer being sold in a retail location not authorized by a provincial cannabis authority, but instead by local First Nations authorities.

Indigenous man says he can sell cannabis without B.C. lisence because of UN declaration

Indigenous man says he can sell cannabis without B.C. lisence because of UN declaration

By admin on March 27, 2021

"It's made it quite difficult for First Nations to actually do any business off-reserve, so I took it upon myself — once the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was tabled in B.C. — to step off-reserve and basically assert our rights within our territory, our practice, our rights within our territory."