Harry Sullivan · Multimedia Journalist | Saltwire | Feb. 15, 2020 MILLBROOK, N.S. — The province’s decision to exclude First Nations from its expansion of retail cannabis outlets is yet another blow to the efforts by First Nations bands to participate in the process, Millbrook’s chief says. “It’s been an ongoing discussion with the province and…
Category: Aboriginal Rights
VIDEO: Cannabis is an Aboriginal right: “Speak from the heart – and don’t give up!”
Originally published at Dispensing Freedom on June 24, 2021. Chief Del Riley, Constitutional negotiator and former National Indian Brotherhood President, tours Medicine Wheel in Alderville First Nation and sits down for a conversation about cannabis and Indigenous sovereignty with Rob Stevenson. ALDERVILLE FIRST NATION – On March 4th, 2021, Chief Del Riley, the former President of…
Op-ed: RCMP raids on Millbrook First Nation cannabis dispensaries must stop
By Margie Ann Cook | The Nova Scotia Advocate | June 5, 2021 Millbrook First Nation – Since the legalization of marijuana in Nova Scotia in 2018 several entrepreneurs in our community opened up shops as dispensaries and started selling cannabis products. Recently the RCMP raided and shut down three stores and removed two of them stating concerns and…
A year later, Mi’kmaw cannabis vendors still in ‘legal limbo’ in Nova Scotia
Nic Meloney · CBC News · Posted: Oct 17, 2019 ‘I think this is a simple fix, should the province choose to act,’ Millbrook chief writes to premier. It’s been a full year since cannabis was legalized, but Mi’kmaw dispensary owners in Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia still have no clarity on the legality of their businesses. First Nations…
EDITORIAL: Time to clear the pot smoke
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…
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…
First Nations give province 1-year notice of plan to open marijuana shops
Brett Ruskin | CBC News | Oct 18, 2018 First Nations give province 1-year notice of plan to open marijuana shops First Nations in Nova Scotia plan to open retail cannabis stores on reserves, but they are hoping to work with provincial officials to keep prices and products consistent with existing retailers. Chief Bob Gloade of the Millbrook First Nation said after…