On behalf of our Westbank First Nation, I wish to personally invite you to attend the 3rd National Cannabis and Hemp Conference designed to address the policy issues Nations considering cannabis are facing, to be held at the Delta Marriott Grand Okanagan Resort, in Kelowna, November 26-28, 2019.
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A report on priority areas identified during the Senate Committee's study of the Cannabis Act: Progress Report on Priorities Identified in the Eleventh Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples
Canada's legal cannabis industry is still in its early stages, and the country’s Indigenous communities are looking at the nascent market both skeptically and as an opportunity to prosper.
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Friday, February 22nd, 2019 12:25pm | Windspeaker “This is a golden opportunity for all First Nations to get into the game.” — Christian Sinclair, Opaskwayak Cree Nation Two federal ministers spoke at a conference in Ottawa this week which gathered Indigenous cannabis and hemp industry leaders to discuss next steps…
JOANNE LAUCIUS Updated: February 20, 2019 A panel of federal bureaucrats got an earful at a national Indigenous cannabis and hemp conference in Ottawa on Wednesday. The message: Getting a slice of the cannabis industry should have been part of Canada’s reconciliation with its Indigenous peoples — but that opportunity…
Regena Crowchild has been a long time councilor for the Tsuut’ina Nation. She gave the following speech at the National Indigenous Cannabis and Hemp Conference, held on Tsuut’ina Territory, on Nov 19th, 2018. When our peoples entered into Treaty, they had a right to self-determination. They had exclusive jurisdiction in…
Two major conferences held in Treaty 7 and Treaty 6 territory in November of 2018 focused on how Indigenous people could take advantage of new opportunities around cannabis and hemp following the recent Canadian legalization of the plant. These well attended conferences were a clear sign that Indigenous entrepreneurs and…
In Ontario, where you can only legally buy weed from the province’s online store, dispensaries on First Nations are largely operating without interference from the state.
Indigenous representatives gather in Treaty 7 to see where to go with cannabis: A group from various First Nation communities take notes as they walk along the rows of plants inside the Boaz Cultivation, a cannabis growing facility in Calgary.