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…
Dispensing Freedom
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;…
Audrey Hill is a Mohawk grandmother from the Turtle clan. Here she provides her thoughts about the cannabis industry at Six Nations. Facebook Comments
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…
It wasn’t so long ago that we remember when Tyendinaga had but one cannabis dispensary, one which was under constant threat of closure by the local constabulary. Today there are over a dozen dispensaries in Tyendinaga. Like tobacco, there is scarcely one family on the territory that does not have…
As legal pot looms, First Nations seek a piece of the action: Near the historic native village of Kitwancool in northern B.C., the hereditary chief of the Gitanyow frog clan has his eye on an old logging site that could be the perfect place to grow
Eleven days after opening, a marijuana dispensary in Curve Lake was closed down by the community's police force.
On Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory on the shores of Lake Ontario, dead centre between Toronto and Montreal, there are more than 20 pot dispensaries and at least 30 smoke shacks selling cheap cigarettes.
The council of Akwesasne has decided to take another path towards settling its issues with cannabis stores in the community
Fort McMurray group planning one of Canada's first Indigenous cannabis operations: Fort McMurray #468 First Nation hopes to start construction of a plant in May on its land near Gregoire Lake, about 50 km southeast of Fort McMurray