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

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 04/02/2015 - 09:52

Tribal Stewardship of Plant and Food Sovereignty was the subject of a Native law conference at the University of Idaho. Presentations were given on a number of subjects by speakers from as far away as Kansas, Arkansas, and Alaska, but the recent national headlines concerning tribes and marijuana brought that subject to the forefront.

Janie Hipp Simms, an attorney, and director of Indigenous Food and Agriculture at the University of Arkansas School of Law. “Everyone is saying action is going to be required by tribal government, either pro or con. My tribe has already kind of said we’re not going into this phase.”

She explained that the legal environment around marijuana production for either medical or recreational use is very unsettled. “Specifically, we’re relying on a set of four different memos which is not federal law. Until there’s more clarity we need to be very cautious about how we move...

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