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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Shinnecock Tribe Explores Idea Of Producing Medical Marijuana 🌿Shinnecock Tribe Explores Idea Of Producing Medical Marijuana
The Shinnecock Indian Nation is considering the idea of producing medical marijuana on its land—complying with state and federal law— hoping it would produce needed revenue for the tribe.
Tribal Trustee Chairman Bryan Polite said in a statement that after the New York State Legislature passed the Compassionate Care Act last year—an act that allows health care providers to recommend forms of medical marijuana to patients with serious conditions—the nation began to think about what that act meant for the tribe.
A memo from December, called the Cole Memorandum, serves as a guide to Indian tribes that wish to pursue medical marijuana programs in states where medical marijuana is legal. There are restrictions, though, that the tribes must carefully understand, including preventing its distribution to minors and ensuring that revenue from marijuana sales do not go to criminal enterprises, such as gangs, among others.
The memo reads, “The eight priorities...
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