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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Manitoba chief accused by 'rude' airport screener of carrying marijuana in sacred pouch 🌿Manitoba chief accused by 'rude' airport screener of carrying marijuana in sacred pouch
WINNIPEG—The chief of the Mathias Colomb First Nation says he is filing a complaint after being accused by a security screener at the Winnipeg airport of having marijuana in a sacred medicine pouch.
Chief Arlen Dumas says he flies a lot and usually doesn’t have any problem, adding he understands how difficult the job can be.
But he says in this recent incident, the screener was aggressive and insulting.
Dumas had been travelling home with his 16-year-old son, who was born with cystic fibrosis and was having a medical check for a recent double-lung transplant.
The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority is already investigating a similar complaint involving another Manitoba indigenous leader.
Manitoba Grand Chief Derek Nepinak filed a complaint after sacred items in his pipe bundle were unwrapped and handled by screening officers at Ottawa’s Macdonald-Cartier Airport three weeks ago.
Dumas said that when he and his son were...
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