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The Shinnecock Indian Nation has approved two resolutions that will allow the tribe to move forward with an outside developer to cultivate and sell medical marijuana.
In a 83 to 34 vote Saturday, the tribe approved an ordinance paving the way for development of cultivation and dispensary facilities on the tribe’s Southampton reservation. The tribe also voted 80 to 34 to approve working with an outside firm to help develop and finance the enterprise, said Bryan Polite, chairman of the tribal trustees, the nation’s governing body.
Polite said the tribe expects to open a facility sometime this year. It would be Long Island’s third, with two operating in Lake Success and Riverhead. A spokeswoman for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Polite said the tribe hadn’t decided precisely where on the Southampton reservation the new facilities would be located. “We’re looking at different...
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