In the latest Canada cannabis news, Canada's Six Nations have just announced that they will be drafting up their own laws to regulate the legalization of marijuana. With their own laws, they seek to assert autonomy to govern their own affairs.
Canada will nationally legalize the recreational use of Cannabis on October 17th of this year. As of 2017, the Six Nations has more than 27,000 members. Around 13,000 of these members live on the Six Nations of the Grand River reservation in Ontario.
The Six Nations was formed back in the 18th century when the Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, Onondaga, and Tuscarora unified.
Canada Cannabis: First Nations' Leader Speaks Up
Ava Hill, the Chief of the Six Nations elected council, told the Hamilton Spectator:
"Our main concern is the health and safety of our community, particularly the young people [...] We have to start developing our own source revenue. If this is one avenue to do that, that's one avenue we want to explore."
Hill and other Indigenous leaders say they have been excluded from the national discussions on Canadian cannabis legalization.
"It seems that again we've been left out in the dark with all the stuff that's going on, and we've become a footnote," said Hill.
Back in June, Parliment in Ottawa passed Bill C-45, the cannabis act, which leaves each province to decide its own nitty-gritty regulations when it comes to the sales and distribution of the nationally legalized recreational marijuana.
The city of Ottawa is expected to bring in 25 percent of the cannabis tax revenue, while the provinces and Canadian territories will receive the other 75 percent. Some analysts have anticipated that this tax should roughly bring in $400 million annually within the first couple of years.
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Canada Cannabis: The Clock is Ticking
October 17th is just around the corner, and lawmakers in each province are scrambling to finalize the details of each provinces' regulations for Canadian cannabis legalization.
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