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Brother Processing specializes in providing Interac services for Indigenous dispensaries

Indigenous communities and businesses are often disadvantaged by a lack of infrastructure and business services on reserve. Our family owned business, Brother Processing Services, has been making concrete steps to help Indigenous entrepreneurs across Canada access banking and merchant payment services.

Long Island Cannabis Conversations: Part II

Exploring the island’s Indigenous roots and futures From Long Island Weekly by Janet Burns March 24 2023 Our last installment left off in the island’s East End, where European colonists who grew hemp for sails and rigging left their mark behind with the name ‘Hamptons.’ For this installment, we return to Eastern…

Move Over, Tribal Casinos. Cannabis Dispensaries Are Indian Country’s New, Expanding Enterprise

From Forbes by Joan Oleck March 23 2023 According to historians, the Shinnecock Indian Nation has lived on eastern Long Island for 10,000 years, rather a longer residency than the denizens of the surrounding uber-wealthy and celebrity-studded “Hamptons” can claim. Yet longevity has provided little leverage to the tribe’s leaders in recent…

Court Orders Certain Raw Organic Hemp Rolling Papers Off the Market

Company ‘deceptively and unfairly marketed’ products From CSP by Hannah Hammond February 10 2023 A federal court ordered HBI International, maker of Raw Organic Hemp rolling papers, to stop selling and distributing certain products after a jury found the company engaged in unfair competition and violated the Illinois Uniform Deceptive…

Tilt brings New York tribe’s cannabis brand to Massachusetts

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…

TILT Holdings Announces a New Shinnecock Nation Cannabis Product to Launch in Massachusetts

Little Beach Harvest Brand to Enter Market in Q1 2023;Also Announces Cannabis Learning Scholarship for Tribal Members From Global News Wire press release November 30 2022 PHOENIX, Nov. 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TILT Holdings Inc. (“TILT” or the “Company”) (NEO: TILT) (OTCQX: TLLTF), a global provider of cannabis business solutions that include inhalation…

Indigenous tribes are surging ahead of New York’s legal cannabis market

Native-owned dispensaries are booming throughout the state. Here’s how tribes statewide are claiming stake of New York’s next big industry. From Leafly by Calvin Stovall November 7 2022 More than a year after the state legislature passed a legalization bill, New York’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) said it is…

Jim Belushi Opens Retail Cannabis Dispensary on Tribal Land in Upstate New York

Actor Jim Belushi’s cannabis company, Belushi’s Farm, has opened a new license partner location on Saint Regis (Akwesasne) Mohawk Tribe territory in upstate New York. From Ganjapreneur by TJ Branfalt November 2 2022 A business in partnership with actor Jim Belushi’s cannabis company was awarded a license to sell cannabis…