As of May, 2024 forty seven Native cannabis retailers are operating fifty seven stores in nine states for a gain of some thirty percent since January, 2023. Nations in Minnesota and New York lead non-tribal retail growth in those states but in California and Michigan the industry is reaching full flower very quickly, too. In Minnesota, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe is constructing a 50,000-square-foot cultivation facility that will dwarf any state-licensed operations which are capped at 30,000 square feet. North Carolina and New Mexico lead in the sheer size of retail stores while the NuWu Cannabis Marketplace in Nevada, owned by the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, is one the largest cannabis retail outlets in the world.
Nineteen tribes have built dispensaries near casinos including in South Dakota where the state’s Republican governor and attorney general are confirmed racists.
Starting in New York Donald Trump targeted the Mohawk and Oneida Nations for annihilation in 2020 but today the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe runs 20 retail cannabis operations, the Cayuga Nation, Oneida Indian Nation and Seneca Nation have retail outlets and the Shinnecock Indian Nation operates a dispensary in the Hamptons.
Initially, there was liberalization during the 1970s, marked by the Shafer Commission report and state decriminalization efforts. This was followed by a conservative “Reagan-Bush drug war” era spanning from 1980 to 1992. Then, a 15-year phase from 1993 to 2008 witnessed state-led “medical marijuana” liberalization despite federal opposition. Lastly, from 2009 to 2022, federal non-interference was implemented, culminating in legalization in Colorado and Washington in 2012. [Cannabis Tops Alcohol In Daily Use For First Time Ever, Study Finds]For someone who comes from the times of $150 kilos and fifteen dollar lids these are heady days indeed.
🌿 Nationwide, nearly 60 cannabis retailers are tribally owned – an increase of nearly 25 percent since 2023. https://t.co/Pno37eLicv
— NORML (@NORML) May 28, 2024
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