Pot Debate

Let It Be Pot: Two Washington State Tribes on Board

Richard Walker

12/2/15

For the Suquamish Tribe and the Squaxin Island Tribe, licensing the retail sale of marijuana and legalizing its use on their lands now seems unavoidable...

Federal Agents Seize Hemp Grown On Tribal Land in Wisconsin

Kristi Eaton

10/30/15

Federal agents destroyed a Wisconsin-based tribe’s industrial hemp crop that was being grown as a research project, and the tribe’s chairman says he’s perplexed as to why federal a...

Breaking: Marijuana Operation on Pit River Land Raided

Lynn Armitage

7/8/15

Early this morning, federal drug enforcement agents reportedly conducted a raid on a marijuana cultivation facility on the Pit River reservation in Alturas, California, according t...

Hitting Pot Jackpot? Tribe Starts Medical Marijuana Cultivation

Lynn Armitage

4/21/15

Another California tribe has announced its venture into the medical marijuana business...

Food or Marijuana Production: Which Has a Better Return for Tribes?

Jack McNeel

4/2/15

Tribal Stewardship of Plant and Food Sovereignty was the subject of a Native law conference at the University of Idaho...

Tribal Marijuana Conference: ‘A 10-Year Window for Tribes to Capitalize’

Jacqueline Keeler

3/2/15

On February 28 some 75 tribal leaders from across the country met to discuss forming the first “Tribal Cannabis Association” at the Tulalip Resort Casino on the Tulalip Reservation...

Tribal Leaders to Discuss Formation of Tribal Cannabis Association

ICTMN Staff

2/18/15

The first national Tribal Marijuana Conference will take place in nine days at the Tulalip Resort Casino in Quil Ceda Village, Washington and with interested parties already in att...

Proceed With Caution: A Warning to Tribes Wanting to Grow Medical Marijuana

Alysa Landry

2/16/15

California’s Pinoleville Pomo Nation is poised to become the first American Indian tribe to grow medical marijuana, though investors claim at least 100 additional tribes are explor...

Groundbreaking Conference to Discuss Legalizing Marijuana in Indian Country

ICTMN Staff

1/26/15

The legalization of marijuana is a growing trend in discussions from Washington, D.C. to state government offices and most recently on tribal reservations...

What Does Marijuana Memo Mean for Hemp Production and Traditional Uses?

Alysa Landry

12/18/14

An article that ran in Popular Mechanics in 1938 called hemp the “standard fiber of the world” and promised that production of this “cash crop” would reap several hundred million d...