On Tuesday, June 16 2020, Police Officers from the Anishinabek Police Services (APS), a body funded by and operating in accordance with Provincial and Federal governments, threatened four cannabis dispensaries on unceded Indian lands with raids if they return to business after the Covid-19 barricades are lifted.
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$10K worth of product seized from downtown cannabis dispensary Tupa’s Joint From vernonmorningstar.ca Original Article by Kelsie Kilwana June 11 2020 Members of British Columbia’s Community Safety Unit (CSU) raided Tupa’s Joint in downtown Vernon, an Indigenous-owned cannabis dispensary, and seized all of its products Wednesday, June 10. “They took…
Exclusive: data shows hugely disproportionate treatment, which experts say helps trap young Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system From theguardian.com original article by Michael McGowan and Christopher Knaus June 10 2020 Police in New South Wales pursue more than 80% of Indigenous people found with small amounts of cannabis through the…
From lfpress.com Original Article by Dale Carruthers June 4 2020 Police raided a half-dozen black market cannabis dispensaries on the outskirts of an Indigenous community southwest of London Thursday. Members of the OPP joint forces cannabis enforcement team searched six illegal pot shops on Carriage Road in Middlesex Centre at…
Retail cannabis store opens on Tk’emlúps land after being raided and closing in Kamloops. Boomers Bud is now one of at least four retail cannabis stores open on Tk’emlups land. Only one of those, called Yellowhead Cannabis, has a provincial license.
Eskasoni First Nation concerned about unregulated cannabis sales after two recent incidents involving unwitting consumption of cannabis-laced, intends to open its own soon to sell cannabis and related products under the Mi’kmaq right to self-government.
Cops turn blind eye to Indigenous protesters: None of the contraband sold in the 40 or so marijuana stores would be tolerated outside these Mohawk territory borders. The normal rules don’t apply here. On the other side of the line, however, it’s different.
More people have come forward as police continue to investigate how THC -- the active ingredient in cannabis -- wound up in a molasses cake served at an elementary school in Eskasoni, N.S.
When recreational cannabis was legalized in Canada in 2018, some imagined the country would become a utopia for weed-lovers: Canadians could be sparking up doobs with impunity. Not exactly... The Cannabis Act didn’t legalize cannabis in all its forms.
Police say several people — including children — were sickened after eating a molasses cake that may have contained THC during an event at a school in Eskasoni First Nation, N.S., on Friday