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…
Dispensing Freedom
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
On the outside, still wanting in: The Manitoba Metis Federation also responded to the province’s RFP for cannabis stores through its business arm, Métis N4 Construction, says Jack Park, the federation’s minister of energy and infrastructure.
Islander charged with pot possession: As a result of the investigation, Brent Kells-Sagon, 34, of Zhiibaahaasing First Nation, has been charged with possession of marijuana under 30 grams.
Curve Lake First Nation has its first medical marijuana dispensary. The Trican store in Curve Lake offered edible marijuana products when it opened on Feb. 25.