First Nations invested in marijuana selected to open Manitoba retail stores: National Access Cannabis is a company, which has teamed up with Brokenhead, Longplain, Peguis, Nelson House and Opaskwayak First Nations.
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These four companies have won bids to sell legal weed in Manitoba - National Access Cannabis, a chain of medical cannabis clinics that already operate across Manitoba and other provinces.
Chadwick McGregor and Eliot Gautier run First Nations Medicinal based in Wahnapitae First Nation, located about 45 minutes north of Sudbury store after their store was raided by police. Although the police took money and medicines, they did not issue formal charges as McGregor and Gautier relate. First Nations Medicinal…
Toronto – On Saturday, February 10th, 2018, members of Na-me-res and Sagatay programs came together to watch the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Ottawa Senators practice at the ACC. The people were thrilled to meet Mike Babcock, the coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and presented him with a display…
Anishinabek Health Conference hosts Cannabis Conversation with Carol Hopkins: Hopkins shared that the cannabis plant has been sited throughout history of First Nation culture. Invites communities to consider all of the issues; the pros and the cons.
Hundreds of edible pot products and a taser were among the items seized by Anishinabek Police during a raid of a marijuana dispensary on the Wahnapitae First Nation last week.
by Ben Powless, The Nation, January 30, 2018 In a scene that wouldn’t be out of place in a standard action movie, police armed with assault rifles burst into the cannabis dispensary on a calm Tuesday evening and arrested almost everyone inside. The reserve police in the community of the…
Pot issue coming to boil on Six Nations: The survey in question shows massive support (in the 80 to 90 per cent range, based on answers from 731 respondents) for the availability of marijuana in their territory and for the "sovereign right" of Six Nations
by Erin Andersen, 570News, January 28, 2018 Community members living on the Six Nations of the Grand River near Brantford are hosting a public forum on Sunday, to discuss results from a community survey conducted last year. Nearly 1,000 people participated in the survey, as the territory opened its first…
by Jeff Mahoney, The Hamilton Spectator, January 28, 2018 OHSWEKEN — If you ever thought the legal pot thing would go down nice and mellow anywhere, from Salt Spring Island to St. John’s, or Six Nations in between, what were you smoking? Case in point. Sunday’s gathering at Yogi’s Barn,…