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Nunavut Inuit org blasts Ottawa on cannabis legalization, unfulfilled promises

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…

Cannabis and Onkwehon:we politics: An interview with Kanasaraken Loran Thompson

Kanansaraken Loran Thompson is a Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) elder who has devoted his life to the well being of his people. This interview was conducted by Tom Keefer of Real People’s Media and can be listened to at http://bit.ly/2wX8UHw. On the Cannabis industry Concerning those cannabis stores that are open in…

Decolonizing cannabis: An interview with Akwesasne Mohawk elder Ateronhiata:kon Francis Boots

One of the things I see as an absolute necessity is that we educate ourselves about the effects and benefits of cannabis. Up to this point, we’ve had a very negative stereotype of cannabis in our community. It’s like we even labelled it in the language in a negative connotation;…

Cannabis as a medicine

An interview with Kennikastosera:a Jamie Kunkel, owner of Smoke Signals in Tyendinaga. Should healers profit from medicine? If this was sixty years ago when people shouldn’t be profiting from farming and we were still a collective, I’d understand. If I still provided potatoes for everybody on this reserve so long…

After the raid at First Nations Medicinal

Chadwick McGregor and Eliot Gautier run First Nations Medicinal based in Wahnapitae First Nation, located about 45 minutes north of Sudbury store after their store was raided by police. Although the police took money and medicines, they did not issue formal charges as McGregor and Gautier relate. First Nations Medicinal…

No dispensaries: Wait until marijuana is legal says Six Nations police chief

APTN National News | January 22, 2018 by Beverly Andrews  Video available here.  Beverly Andrews APTN News Six Nations police raided a marijuana dispensary earlier this month arresting the owner and a few others. It’s what the band council appears to want and so does the chief of police. “They should wait until they…