Red Market Brand’s long-term goal is to “establish a national network of First Nation-licenced producers who will supply Red Market and other First Nation cannabis products — all approved by Health Canada.” From TheGrowthOp by Sam Riches June 21 2021 Red Market Brand (RMB) will give Canadian consumers an Indigenous option when…
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Canada’s legal weed market has been struggling since legalization in 2018 Between 2018-2020, some 500 tons of unpackaged cannabis was destroyed In 2019 and 2020, total of almost 6 million packages of cannabis were discarded Canadian firms currently warehousing 1.1 billion grams of harvested cannabis Almost all of that cannabis…
The Toronto-based credit fund manager is nearing a public listing for Bridging Infrastructure Fund LP as an early entrant in the cannabis space from the infrastructure sector. From RealMoney.TheStreet.com by Steve Gelsi August 14 2021 Toronto-based credit fund manager Bridging Finance Inc. is nearing a public listing for Bridging Infrastructure…
Deal with Health Canada resembles trade agreement between sovereign nations From ricochet.media by Christopher Curtis August 6 2021 Here’s a vision of what the legal cannabis industry might look like on sovereign Mohawk land. Mohawks licensing Mohawk farmers to grow cannabis for Mohawk retailers with millions in profits going back…
Cannabis legalization was supposed to be a licence to print money. Three years on, nobody is turning a profit From thewalrus.ca by Kieran Delamont August 5 2021 Back in 2018, during those months before Canada legalized recreational cannabis, things were good for the pot industry. Companies were being hyped as…
Chief Del Riley, Hereditary Crane Clan Chief, former leader of the National Indian Brotherhood, past president of the Union of Ontario Indians, and past chairman of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples is doing a speaking tour to discuss the constitutionally protected Aboriginal right to cannabis. Chief Riley will be…
That hasn’t stopped Matthew Bell, a Bear Clan member of the Potawatomi nation, from seeking a different path – one which his fiercely independent ancestors travelled themselves. Instead of operating under Canada’s licensing system – which was devised without consulting Indigenous people – Bell is taking a stand for sovereignty.
From Kahnawake.com by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke July 5 2021 The Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke (MCK) wishes to inform the community that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Health Canada in relation to the Cannabis industry on the Territory. “This MOU is an important step in…
‘The province wants obviously direct control of anything and everything,’ Dennis Meeches says CBC News • Jul 04, 2021 The chief of a First Nation being sued by the province over the operation of a cannabis store on its treaty lands says the legal action has nothing to do with health…
By David Brown, Stratcann, July 2, 2021. Manitoba’s Attorney General announced today they have brought a lawsuit seeking to shut down an unlicensed retailer operating in the province. The lawsuit seeks an interim and permanent injunction against Indigenous Bloom Long Plain GP and its owners, Long Plain First Nation, and Indigenous Bloom…