Pot sales grow on Native American land as New York preps market

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ST. REGIS MOHAWK RESERVATION, N.Y. (AP) — As New York inches toward launching a retail marijuana market, sales of buds and edibles are already flourishing on some Native American land around the state.

Shops dot the main road through the U.S. side of Mohawk territory straddling the Canadian border. In the Finger Lakes, the Cayuga Nation is selling marijuana at two stores. Native Americans have opened more stores in western New York on Seneca territory.

Many of these shops are small and far from big cities, and there’s an internal dispute over the legality of about a dozen operations on the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation. But the sales show how Native Americans have been able to tap early into what is expected to be a multibillion-dollar statewide market. Native Americans call it an expression of their sovereignty and a way to bring much-needed economic activity to their territory.
Guess I know where I’ll be headed next weekend.
 
Indians in New York have been smoking and selling grass since at least the 1970's. A fellow I went to school with back then used to bring keys of grass to a reservation up in Cuba, New York.

Not surprised at all the tradition has been continued.
 
South Dakota just passed MMJ in the last year or two and are setting up grow operations and dispensaries, all run by the tribes. Don't know how it's actually going because I'm not a user so I don't pay a lot of attention, but on the eastern side of the state, my tribe is involved in the industry.
 
A hundred and seventy five years or so ago the white man sold alcohol to the Indians and ruined their culture. Fast forward to the 21st century and Indians run gambling casinos that fleece white degenerate gamblers out of their savings. It didn't take long for the American Indians to find another avenue of payback by turning white American teenagers into pot head idiots. Payback's a bitch.
 
A hundred and seventy five years or so ago the white man sold alcohol to the Indians and ruined their culture. Fast forward to the 21st century and Indians run gambling casinos that fleece white degenerate gamblers out of their savings. It didn't take long for the American Indians to find another avenue of payback by turning white American teenagers into pot head idiots. Payback's a bitch.
Ain't it cool? Although it's pale in comparison to what they did to us.
 
Why do you want to know?
This is my country now .. if you want it come abs get it 72D28E2F-5D23-433E-816D-9D8EA4FDCD71.jpeg
 

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