From MJ Biz Daily December 2 2022 Tilt Holdings is launching Little Beach Harvest, a cannabis brand developed in partnership with New York’s Shinnecock Indian Nation, in its home state of Massachusetts. According to a news release, members of the Long Island-based Shinnecock Nation assisted Tilt’s cultivation team with strain selection…
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From Government of British Columbia News Release November 17 2022 Tsleil-Waututh Nation and the Province of B.C. have entered into a government-to-government cannabis agreement that supports cannabis economic development. This is the seventh agreement to be signed and continues to show B.C. and First Nations are implementing a path forward…
DARTMOUTH, NS – Over 40 people accompanied Chris Googoo to his court date at the Dartmouth courthouse on October 11th, 2022. Googoo, an Elected Councillor and entrepreneur in Millbrook First Nation, is raising a constitutional challenge to defend his Aboriginal and Treaty rights to sell cannabis on unceded Indian lands after his shop was raided by the RCMP. Councillor Googoo’s shop in Cole Harbour was raided along with several others on December 23rd, 2020. He was charged under the Cannabis Act with “possessing cannabis for the purpose of selling,” and “possession for the purpose of distributing cannabis.”
From Leafly by David Silverberg October 11 2022 British Columbia recently announced it’s joining other provinces in allowing cannabis producers to sell products on-site, while also potentially opening the door to product sampling and on-site consumption starting at the end of November. Under the new regulation, cultivators who are interested…
Additional marijuana regulations and community revenue needed, says chief From APTN by Emelia Fournier September 1 2022 A Mi’gmaq First Nation on the Quebec-New Brunswick border has seen its marijuana industry grow dramatically – and its Cannabis Office is trying to figure out how to manage the boom. Weed shops have…
From Nug Magazine by Steve August 20 2022 One of the reservations in South Dakota, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, does allow legal cannabis, although alcohol is still prohibited on the reservation. In 2020, the Oglala Sioux voted overwhelmingly in favor of legalizing recreational and medical cannabis. The site has…
From MJBizDaily by Matt Lamers August 3 2022 Canadian licensed producers have destroyed a growing amount of cannabis every year since adult-use legalization nearly four years ago, with 2021’s record quantity far exceeding the product sold that year, an MJBizDaily analysis has found. The latest data signals that some Canadian mass-producers might…
Awareness and education surrounding illicit tobacco in Canada can reduce the impact on public health From The National Post by Joanne Peters, Postmedia Content Works August 3 2022 This story was created by Content Works, Postmedia’s commercial content division, on behalf of Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc. The trade in illicit…
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…