First Nations protest disrupts lunchtime traffic: “The current government has been exercising unlawful jurisdiction in First Nation territory on a variety of issues, from tobacco and cannabis, to cuts in health care, child and family services
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Oka mayor apologizes to Kanesatake Mohawks for claiming his village would be “surrounded” by Mohawks, illicit tobacco shops, cannabis dispensaries and illegal garbage dumps.
Judge orders Tobique First Nation couple not to participate in cannabis-related ventures. They were charged after an RCMP raid at the Tribal ReLeaf dispensary on Tobique First Nation in 2017.
“We have not been able to access a safe legal supply of cannabis because we were left out of the federal legislation,” Chief McLeod said.
Hundreds of delegates will gather to engage on the latest information and research relating to First Nations and cannabis, including key issues in areas like jurisdiction over sales and regulation, health impacts, social development impacts and economics.
Canada’s indigenous peoples, known as First Nations, want to get in on the legal cannabis action — or, in some cases, to continue to prohibit marijuana, in spite of federal legalization.
Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory has been named one of eight First Nations that have been approved for a retail cannabis outlet by the province.
Beausoleil First Nation council looking into creating own cannabis laws: A cannabis survey has been released online in an attempt to get BFN members’ thoughts around cannabis and if the local First Nation should develop some laws of their own.
Sarnia-Lambton, including Aamjiwnaang First Nation, has again been shutout of the lottery to get a legal cannabis retail store.
Canopy had second thoughts about a plan to build a facility in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, just outside of Montreal.