by Harry Sullivan | Truro Daily | Oct 24th 2019 MILLBROOK, N.S. — Recent RCMP spot checks conducted in Millbrook, according to one shop owner, were set up specifically to target non-natives who are purchasing cannabis products on the reserve. “They’re telling the non-natives to stop and they’re searching their cars and stuff and they tell the…
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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…
First Nations poised to challenge Nova Scotia’s marijuana monopoly
Brett Bundale The Canadian Press June 29, 2018 HALIFAX — Nova Scotia First Nations appear poised to take on the province’s marijuana monopoly — including one Mi’kmaq community that has enlisted Olympian Ross Rebagliati to roll out a “seed to sale” cannabis operation. Sipekne’katik First Nation in Indian Brook, N.S., has plans to grow cannabis…