Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) and Mashantucket Pequot Tribe Chairman Robney Butler last week announced the state’s first tribal cannabis compact. The agreement acknowledges the tribe’s own adult-use regulations under state law and will allow tribal operators and state-licensed cannabis companies to do business with each other. The state of Connecticut and the Mashantucket Pequot […]
The indigenous people of North America have long had cultures that respected “teaching plants” but the relationship between indigenous people and cannabis is complicated. Now, with the spreading legalization of adult-use cannabis, Native American reservations in the U.S. and First Nation communities in Canada have started establishing cannabis rules and opening cannabis retail and production centers.
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