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…
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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 The Minnesota Reformer by Mike Mosedale February 2 2026 A Minnesota court dismissed a case against an Ojibwe man who was charged with first degree felony possession of marijuana after police seized more than 7 pounds of cannabis during a raid at his reservation-based tobacco shop. In an opinion issued Monday,…
From Manitoulin Expositor by Jaqueline St-Pierre December 11 2024 SUDBURY—The high-profile case involving 10 defendants charged with operating unregulated cannabis stores on Wahnapitae, Henvey Inlet, and Garden River First Nations has entered a critical new phase as trial dates have been scheduled for three weeks in the spring of 2025:…
From Finger Lake Times by David L Shaw October 11 2024 SENECA FALLS — For a second time, a State Supreme Court Judge has ruled that a cannabis sales shop on Lower Lake Road is operating illegally. Judge Kevin Nasca has reaffirmed an earlier decision by Judge Daniel Doyle that…
Ten accused say they are members of a long-forgotten First Nation in northeastern Ontario and have a historical right to sell cannabis From The Sudbury Star by Harold Carmichael September 10 2024 The trial in Sudbury of 10 Indigenous people across Ontario facing cannabis-related charges will resume later this year.…
From JFLLaw.ca By Sara Mainville, Isabel Klassen-Marshall, July 24th, 2024 On June 7th, the Provincial Court of Nova Scotia issued a decision in R. v. Marshall et al, decisively shutting down an Aboriginal and Treaty rights defense in a high-profile cannabis case under the Cannabis Act and the Excise Act in the decision.[1] The defendants, who operated cannabis…
By: Kendall Hanson from Chek News B.C.’s community safety unit (CSU), which is responsible for cannabis enforcement in the province, raided four shops on K’ómoks First Nation land this week. The raids were carried out on Thursday and while no one was arrested, a sizable amount of cannabis and products were seized.…
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…
Richard Cuthbertson · CBC News · Posted: Apr 02, 2024 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: April 2 Some unauthorized store owners are asserting they have a treaty right to sell cannabis Thomas Durfee, right, the founder of Amu Leaf, is shown outside provincial court in Dartmouth, N.S., with Del Riley, who was the…