Excluded from Canada’s marijuana industry, Indigenous entrepreneurs are forging a sovereign market From The Breach by Caitlin Donohue August 4 2022 When Tim Barnhart first opened a cannabis dispensary on Tyendinaga Mohawk territory back in 2015, it was considered a radical act. Legacy 420 was a sovereign shop, promising to empower Indigenous…
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Lack of involvement of Indigenous communities & leaders risks further colonial exploitation of their lands and cultural heritage. From volteface by Editorial June 30 2022 Almost a decade ago, Elizabeth’s husband Chor experienced what she now calls a “healing crisis”: an opiate relapse after a 13 year stretch of sobriety.…
There is no single answer or solution for how to improve the current state of cannabis in indigenous Sovereign nations because the issue is complicated, and opinions and challenges vary from tribe to tribe throughout the land. From The Fresh Toast by Tom Gaffey June 28 2022 Many lawmakers continue…
From Real Peoples Media June 13, 2022 On June 3, 2022, Gene Hill visited the 1701 Iroquois Trading Post on Kingston Rd, in Scarborough Ontario. The 1701 Iroquois Trading Post is a sovereign Indigenous store retailing cannabis, tobacco, fish and other Indigenous products. Uncle Gene met with Ken Hughes, Kanenhariyo…
By David Malmo-Levine from Cannabis Culture June 9 2022 CANNABIS CULTURE – White Supremacist pot cartel & BC Provincial Government seeks to raid Indigenous pot dispensaries out of existence “Boundary n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of…
Medicine Wheel cannabis dispensary is now operating at 1176 Danforth Ave in the East End of Toronto. by News Editor September 17, 2021 TORONTO – Just East of Toronto’s popular Greektown at the intersection of Danforth and Greenwood Avenues sits Toronto’s first Indigenous-owned and operated cannabis dispensary. The shop is…
Deal with Health Canada resembles trade agreement between sovereign nations From ricochet.media by Christopher Curtis August 6 2021 Here’s a vision of what the legal cannabis industry might look like on sovereign Mohawk land. Mohawks licensing Mohawk farmers to grow cannabis for Mohawk retailers with millions in profits going back…
Chief Del Riley, Hereditary Crane Clan Chief, former leader of the National Indian Brotherhood, past president of the Union of Ontario Indians, and past chairman of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples is doing a speaking tour to discuss the constitutionally protected Aboriginal right to cannabis. Chief Riley will be…
From Kahnawake.com by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke July 5 2021 The Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke (MCK) wishes to inform the community that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Health Canada in relation to the Cannabis industry on the Territory. “This MOU is an important step in…
‘The province wants obviously direct control of anything and everything,’ Dennis Meeches says CBC News • Jul 04, 2021 The chief of a First Nation being sued by the province over the operation of a cannabis store on its treaty lands says the legal action has nothing to do with health…