Cherokee Nation Launches Workgroup to Study Hemp, Cannabis Use. The Executive Work Group on Hemp, Cannabis and Related Opportunities to study issues relating to hemp and cannabis in fields such as commerce, health care and agriculture.
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Several of South Dakota's tribes are petitioning for USDA approval to grow hemp given it's legal federally. It's been billed as a crop that could save some of South Dakota's farms if they're allowed to grow it.
A Native American tribe that planned to open the first marijuana resort in the U.S. announced over the weekend that it was destroying its crop and temporarily suspending the plans in South Dakota while leaders sought legal guidance from the federal gov.
The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe announced Friday that it has received clearance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to begin growing industrial hemp.
3RD ANNUAL INDIGENOUS HEMP CONFERENCE MARCH 4TH, 2020: JOIN US FOR THE 3RD ANNUAL INDIGENOUS HEMP CONFERENCE at the Maplelag in Callaway, MN
AKWESASNE MOHAWK POLICE SEIZE CANNABIS, CANNABIS EXTRACTS, AND CURRENCY On January 7, 2020, the Akwesasne Mohawk Police Marine Unit (SAVE) was conducting pro-active marine patrols on the St. Lawrence River monitoring boating activity.
First Nations and the provinces should look to US state-tribal Compacts as a pragmatic way forward for cannabis regulation on-reserve.
Native Americans running Las Vegas' only cannabis lounge: the NuWu Cannabis Marketplace, a glass-walled, big box structure that half resembles a car dealership.NuWu – which means “the people” in Southern Paiute – sits on the tribe’s “colony” one mile away.
FROM DAKOTA WITH LOVE: LESSONS ON CANNABIS FARMING FROM INDIGENOUS LANDS Change doesn’t require permission, nor does it need to be instigated from outside. Indigenous communities have the chance to define a new and booming market.
Did Native Americans Smoke Weed? Native Americans smoked weed. As did Native Asians, Native Europeans, and Native Africans. But as is the case with any historical narrative, the story is more complicated than that.