Editorial | Chronicle Herald | August 16th 2019 You have to give them credit for entrepreneurial spirit, if nothing else. After all, the pot shop operators on the Millbrook reserve near Truro are only doing what businesspeople all over the world do. They spot an opportunity or a market that is not being served and…
Month: August 2019
Millbrook chief says on-reserve pot sellers aren’t protected by treaty rights
Harry Sullivan · Multimedia Journalist | Saltwire | Aug. 16, 2019 Chief would ‘absolutely’ support RCMP enforcement MILLBROOK, N.S. — There is no treaty agreement that supports the unauthorized sale of cannabis on Nova Scotia’s First Nation reserves and the current “trafficking” operations are no different than bootlegging alcohol, Millbrook’s chief says. “There is no treaty…
Feeling ‘intentionally dismissed,’ several Millbrook shops selling pot under treaty right claim
by Harry Sullivan | Truro Daily | Aug 14th 2019 One shop right across from RCMP detachment MILLBROOK, N.S. — At least three cannabis operations have set up shop in Millbrook, despite the lack of any formal government agreement to permit retail marijuana sales outside of the NSLC’s domain. “I’m just exercising my treaty rights,” said Michael…