‘We have tobacco shacks, and we don’t want cannabis shacks’ Jessica Deer · CBC News · Posted: Oct 15, 2018 Kwetiio Goodleaf isn’t happy with how her community’s band council is developing legislation to regulate the cannabis industry in Kahnawake, Que. (Jessica Deer/CBC) Kwetiio Goodleaf has worked in Kahnawake’s tobacco industry for the past three…
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Two Communities Planning For Cannabis Future: Kanesatake and Akwesasne’s Mohawk Councils are both trying to ensure the communities have regulation in place, with each at opposing stages of the process.
The Kanesatake band council could start swearing in its own peace officers to prevent the rise of illegal cannabis dispensaries on the North Shore Mohawk territory.
By Christopher Curtis. Reprinted from the Montreal Gazette. First published on: April 20, 2018 | Last Updated: April 20, 2018 10:06 PM EDT There’s no turning back now. The thought looped its way around Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas’s mind as he sorted through a pile of narcotics. It was, he thought,…
Nicholas opened the first-ever medical marijuana dispensary in the Kanesatake Mohawk territory: In Kanesatake, a marijuana dispensary sprouts on Mohawk land: Nicholas opened the first-ever medical marijuana dispensary in the Kanesatake Mohawk territory
This New Indigenous Group Wants to Harness the Healing Powers of Weed: a few dozen people gathered in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory to formally launch a national Indigenous organization to promote and defend the Indigenous relationship to the cannabis plant