From cannabis to child welfare: Indigenous leaders hold rare special meeting on federal legislation: The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) called a two-day special chiefs meeting in Gatineau
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A Senate committee says Ottawa should put off legalizing marijuana for a year until Canada and First Nations can negotiate tax sharing, produce culturally appropriate education materials and ensure First Nations are able to regulate for themselves whether they want pot to be legal in their communities or not.
A Senate committee says Ottawa should put off legalizing marijuana for a year until Canada and First Nations can negotiate tax sharing, produce culturally appropriate education materials and ensure First Nations are able to regulate for themselves whether they want pot to be legal in their communities or not.
A Senate committee says Ottawa should put off legalizing marijuana for a year until Canada and First Nations can negotiate tax sharing, produce culturally appropriate education materials and ensure First Nations are able to regulate for themselves whether they want pot to be legal in their communities or not.
https://vimeo.com/266006409 CBC journalist Jorge Barrera examines the rapidly growing indigenous cannabis industry in a segment for CBC’s National on April 20th, 2018. . http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational
The Look North Indigenous Economy Report distributed at a conference in Thompson April 10 is a tool to demonstrate the contributions that northern Indigenous people make to the province’s economy as well as to establish a baselines for future economic comparisons.
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
For some Indigenous communities, legal weed represents liberation, but hanging over the possibility of future prosperity is whether the country will be able to enforce cannabis regulations fairly
The mayor of a village in northern Saskatchewan and the chief of a nearby First Nation are not happy the only available retail cannabis permit in the area was won by a Saskatoon-based business with no connection to their communities.