by Jane George, Nunatsiaq News, October 27, 2017 CAMBRIDGE BAY—If Nunavut’s next MLAs want direction on issues ranging from the legalization of cannabis to education, they can turn to the resolutions that emerged from the annual general meeting of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the birthright organization for the territory’s Inuit, which…
Dispensing Freedom
by Natasha MacDonald-Dupuis, CBC News, August 13, 2015 Forget about weight watchers; new research out of Nunavik suggests the secret to a slim figure might be… marijuana. Recently, researchers from Quebec looked into why levels of Type 2 diabetes were so low among Inuit. The study, called “Cannabis use in relation to…
This text is excerpted from pages 124-129 of The Great Book of Hemp (1996). By Rowan Robinson The Vikings depended on hemp for their sails and rope, and they probably carried hemp seed with them and planted it when they visited North America about a thousand years ago. Sailors usually carried supplies…
PHOTO: Waterloo Regional Police Chief Bryan Larkin, who serves as president of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, was in Toronto to warn drug users about buying their weed from illegal sources. (Ed Middleton/CBC News ) By CBC Toronto, Mar 13, 2018 With legalization on the horizon, chiefs hope to…
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…
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;…
https://vimeo.com/258352840 Audrey Hill is a Mohawk grandmother from the Turtle clan. Here she provides her thoughts about the cannabis industry at Six Nations. https://vimeo.com/258352840/e42f448f9f
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