“The cannabis market should not be a windfall for large corporate players with inside access to the premier’s office,” Schreiner said in a statement. “I will be standing up for small, Ontario-owned businesses and job creators. I will also be standing up for Indigenous communities to be involved in the cannabis market.”
Dispensing Freedom
A lone Anishinabek Police Service car sits outside Trican medicinal marijuana shop at Curve Lake First Nation after it was served with a search warrant and one employee was arrested on Friday, April 6, 2018
The federal Liberal government’s point-man on legalizing marijuana said more talks between Ottawa, the provinces and First Nations are needed to sort out how the looming pot law will apply on reserves.
Sarnia police raided a business on the Aamjiwnaang First Nation Thursday and seized suspected marijuana and cannabis edibles, including gummy bears, brownies and suckers.
Opaskwayak Cree Nation invested $3 million in National Access Cannabis just prior to its first day of trading in September 2017.
No matter who wins the Oct. 1 election, the relationship between First Nations and Quebec’s government will have to be “entirely revisited.”
Should the more than 200 First Nations in British Columbia get a piece of the pot tax pie after cannabis is legalized in Canada on Oct. 17?
Some of our communities have attracted private sector partners to help us grow, process, package and wholesale cannabis, producing hundreds of sustainable jobs. Retail stores will follow which will help the provincial government realize its goal of reasonable access to cannabis for all Manitobans.
Onekanew Sinclair is a well regarded member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation and co-chair of Manitoba's Northern Economic Development Strategy. He currently serves on the board of National Access Cannabis
First Nations want more control over legalization of cannabis: As the deadline looms for governments to establish or oversee legal outlets for the sale of recreational cannabis, at least one group of First Nations says they plan to draft their own laws