Mohawk Territory Makes History with Indigenous Cannabis Cup Friday, May 18, 2018 Tyendinaga – The first annual Smoke Signals Indigenous Cannabis Cup opens today at Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory on Lake Ontario. It runs four days, including overnight camping, until Monday, May 21st, when the Cup winners will be announced. This…
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Serpent River First Nation host information and sharing session on Cannabis legalization: one-day information and sharing session to educate citizens about the upcoming legalization of Cannabis, what First Nation community members need to know,
PHOTO: The Globe and Mail Newspaper Building, Toronto, courtesy Wikimedia Commons cc-by-sa-2.0. Reprinted from The Globe and Mail online. First published May 6, 2018 at 17:00. Conservative senators have been threatening to slow or even kill the Liberal government’s cannabis legalization bill for months. But with a third reading in the…
By Rachel Browne. Reprinted from VICE News. First published April 18, 2018. Black and Indigenous men and women have been overrepresented in cannabis possession arrests across Canada in the years since Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister, according to a VICE News investigation based on police data obtained through freedom of information…
SIX NATIONS – Last Thursday, April 5, and Friday, April 6th, the Six Nations Police Department conducted back to back police raids on the medicinal cannabis dispensary, King Leaf. On Monday, Smoke Signals Media spoke with representatives of the Six Nations Police Department (SNPD) and the Six Nations Police Commission,…
by Jane George, Nunatsiaq News, October 27, 2017 CAMBRIDGE BAY—If Nunavut’s next MLAs want direction on issues ranging from the legalization of cannabis to education, they can turn to the resolutions that emerged from the annual general meeting of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the birthright organization for the territory’s Inuit, which…
https://vimeo.com/258352840 Audrey Hill is a Mohawk grandmother from the Turtle clan. Here she provides her thoughts about the cannabis industry at Six Nations. https://vimeo.com/258352840/e42f448f9f
the announcement awarded franchises to three First Nations — one of them, Onion Lake First Nation, is a dry reserve — speaks to the lack of true consultation and thought applied to this issue.
Indigenous leaders sounding alarm over implications of legal pot regime: Isadore Day, the Ontario regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations, said he fears for Indigenous community safety because the federal government is moving too quickly.
Reprinted from the Globe and Mail, Dec 6, 2017. By GLORIA GALLOWAY OTTAWA – First Nations leaders say they must be given the right to govern the sale and distribution of legalized marijuana within their communities and to set the laws that will oversee its use by their people. Chiefs…