Tracy Johnson says the plateau overlooking Niagara Falls and nestled among the Finger Lakes of northwestern New York once was covered in hemp. From IndianCountryToday.com by Alysa Landry Updated September 13, 2018 – Original September 26 2014 The way Tracy Johnson tells it, the plateau of land overlooking Niagara Falls…
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First Nations want more control over legalization of cannabis: As the deadline looms for governments to establish or oversee legal outlets for the sale of recreational cannabis, at least one group of First Nations says they plan to draft their own laws
Six Nations is drafting its own cannabis law rather than wait for outside governments to impose regulations.
by Jessica Deer – May 11, 2018 • The Eastern Door A proposed Cannabis Control Law was hit with criticism at Tuesday’s Mohawk Council of Kahnawake community meeting, for blazing its way through the Community Decision-Making Process (CDMP). The draft law is currently undergoing a 30-day feedback period, which was extended until the…
For some Indigenous communities, legal weed represents liberation, but hanging over the possibility of future prosperity is whether the country will be able to enforce cannabis regulations fairly
Chief and Council of Nipissing First Nation has declared a moratorium on cannabis. Chief and Council passed a motion on March 20 to prohibit business licenses for the sale and production of cannabis.
Maliseet in New Brunswick and the RCMP are at odds over whether the community of Tobique has the lawful ability to sell medicinal marijuana. The issue came to a head on Oct. 5 when officers raided the offices of Tribal ReLeaf, a medicinal cannabis dispensary on Tobique First Nation. Tom…
by Daniel J. Rowe – August 3, 2017 • The Eastern Door The majority of those polled in a recent Mohawk Council of Kahnawake survey agree that the community should develop its own regulations for the distribution of recreational cannabis. Out of the 267 who responded to the survey, 153 agreed with creating…
by Jessica Deer – March 31, 2017 • Eastern Door With the federal government expected to legalize recreational marijuana use by 2018, Indigenous people across Turtle Island are trying to stay one jump ahead of the competition. The National Indigenous Medical Cannabis Association (NIMCA) was officially launched on Saturday in Tyendinaga, with the…
Membership and marijuana highlighted the first Mohawk Council of Kahnawake community meeting of 2017 with predictably controversial results. Medical Marijuana With expectations that the federal government will legalize recreational marijuana use by 2018, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake is exploring the idea of entering the industry and is now looking…